Miers:  “Hmmm.  Better let me have a vanilla shake, a chocolate shake, and a strawberry shake.  After all, equality of representation and showy gustatory diversity are the most telling indicators that one has achieved a progressive and culturally enlightened lunch, are they not…?* **** More here, here, and here; rebuttals here and here and here.  Background here and here.

Fake but…well, let’s just leave it at fake.  Because personally?  I think the whole elliptical bit still has legs.

Compliments of John Derbyshire, writing at the Corner: […] All the windsocks are now pointing in the direction of more socialism. As the population ages, Americans will want more leisure, drugs, health care, nursing homes, security. As the Jihadist threat continues to metastasize (from the MidEast to Indonesia, Thailand, Africa, the Caucasus, Europe), we shall want the state to have more police powers, more scrutiny of us and our lives.

From Newsbusters: “South Park,” the popular Comedy Central show about the misadventures of a group of four Colorado boys, criticized the news media Wednesday night for its overhyped coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In the episode, two of the boys, Stan Marsh and Eric Cartman, accidentally crash a boat into a beaver dam, flooding an entire town. In the aftermath, local and national media blame it on global warming, ridiculously exaggerate