You know what?  Baked Cheetos really aren’t half bad—particularly if you wash ‘em down with an ice cold Yoohoo, some serious Xbox, and a nap.* Developing…

From the AP: Iran’s hard-line government said Wednesday it was removing 40 ambassadors and senior diplomats, including supporters of warmer ties with the West, from their posts in a shake-up that comes as the Islamic republic takes a more confrontational international stance. Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki announced the changes to parliament, saying “the missions of more than 40 ambassadors and heads of Iranian diplomatic missions abroad will expire by the

From Bull Moose (h/t John Cole): Will the American people have faith in and trust a party that claims that it was gullibly duped, or as George Romney claimed about another war—that it was “brainwashed.”? Moreover, should the objective be re-fighting the reasons to go to war and making the Democrats the official anti-war party or should the goal be achieving reasonable success in Iraq? If you believe in the

Wolcott:  “At the risk of sounding impolitic, whose stunningly crass idea was it to invite those awful pigs in a blanket…?”* **** (h/t Blogometer)

In response to the Steve Gilliard “Sambo” dustup (in which Gilliard, a black progressive, posted a picture of MD Lt Governor Michael Steele, a black conservative, in minstrel makeup), Cathy Young wrote a few days back: It seems fairly clear to me that such racial putdowns are more likely to be used against black conservatives, in the same way that some progressives think sexist slurs against right-wing women are all

Woke this morning with the uncomfortable feeling I’d done something naughty to the Travelocity Roaming Gnome, who wandered into my dreams last night wearing crotchless lace panties and spiked pumps, and carrying a shepherd’s staff wound with red electrical tape so that it looked like a crooked barber’s pole. Normally I’d say such a sight is unlikely to excite me.  But dreams are crazy things—and having once spent an entire

Two things.  First, go visit SPC Jean-Paul Borda’s milblogging.com, which currently boasts links to 478 military blogs in 15 countries.  The site is searchable by country, by gender, and by author.  If you like what you see, bookmark it or add it to your RSS feed. And second, as a way to prepare myself for my ascension to the nation’s High Court, I’ve been working on writing material for narrowly