—well, before you get too excited, I should let you know that the little guy signed on with the Angels as a substitute “Rally Monkey” when their first-string Rally Monkey, “Pierre,” came down with food poisoning from eating spoiled mashed banana off the pocked breasts of some enormous Bronx hooker. The pay is decent—and the team plane is like an airborn Ritz-Carlton, he tells me—but he hates wearing the monkey

Rox Populi wants to know what would it take for the Dems to get your vote in ‘06 and ‘08?  Serious answers only, please.  And if you can manage it, post your responses onto both sites. My answer, which I left in the comments at RP: In 2000 I didn’t care who won, though I disliked Gore, who seemed impossibly artificial. But now, after 5 years of listening to Dems,

Krauthammer on Harriet Miers. From “Withdraw This Nomination”: For half a century, liberals have corrupted the courts by turning them into an instrument of radical social change on questions—school prayer, abortion, busing, the death penalty—that properly belong to the elected branches of government. Conservatives have opposed this arrogation of the legislative role and called for restoration of the purely interpretive role of the court. To nominate someone whose adult life

From CNN: An intercepted letter from Osama bin Laden’s deputy to the al Qaeda leader in Iraq complains that the terrorist network is short of cash and faces defeat in Afghanistan, a Pentagon spokesman says. The United States obtained a recent letter that appears to be from Ayman al-Zawahiri, al Qaeda’s No. 2 figure, to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, outlining both the strategy and concerns of the terrorist network, said Pentagon

From “Brickbats” (Reason, November 2005): Pennsylvania state Rep. Tom Stevenson (R-Mount Lebanon) has introduced a bill that would require dogs in cars to be restrained or placed in a carrier box.  The bill would also ban dogs from hanging their heads out of vehicles.  Stevenson got the idea from an 11-year-old who took part in his annual “there ought to be a law” contest. More here (thanks to M Hannon);