protein wisdom has been nominated for this year’s Jewish & Israeli Blog Awards in two categories:  Best Jewish Humor Blog and Best Overall Mega Blog.  Which makes sense, because let’s face it:  if anybody deserves recognition as a Super Jew, it’s this agnostic mensch. Anyway, the 2005-6 competition is being co-sponsored by israellycool.com and the Jerusalem Post, which—while it ain’t quite Wizbang, ain’t chopped liver either, as the Hebes are

Schumer: “I was going to ask you, Judge Alito, why you think—and please, let’s dispense with all these so-called ‘qualifications’, references to ‘relevant context’, or invocations of ‘attendant legal precedence’—I was going to ask you , sir, why you believe that the Constitution does not allow a young girl who’s been brutally raped by her White Trash Pappy the legal availability of an abortion?  Is it because you hate women,

I really do love “The Rockford Files,” but I can’t help be think that if they made the show today, Jim would be played by David Caruso—and instead of a shiny gold Firebird, he’d be driving a tricked out Hummer with bullet-proof glass and an entire portable crime lab set up in the back. And Angel?  They’d probably make him a chick—a doe-eyed 25-year old former exotic dancer with a

From AFP, “Afghans reject bin Laden, want more peacekeepers : poll”: Huge majorities of Afghans reject Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, approve the US military role in their country and are grateful to international bodies like the United Nations. The survey by the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA) at the University of Maryland also found strong support for President Hamid Karzai. “Clearly this (poll) is a positive portent for the

From the Telegraph (UK): President Bashar al-Assad of Syria secretly incited Iraq’s top Shia leader to declare holy war against US and British forces, according to Washington’s former administrator in the country. In his new book, My Year in Iraq, Paul Bremer said he heard the explosive intelligence in October 2003 as sectarian tensions soared across the country following the fall of Saddam Hussein. The report came from an extremely

me: “I like, so totally love you, man.” Klonopin: “Well, thanks—but to be honest, that’s mostly just the benzodiazepine talking.  Now please, put your penis away before you get it caught up in the fan again.”

Ever the European trendsetter, Germany appears to be getting just a little bit suspicious of those strange Iranian volk, with their crazy beards and quaint headgear, and their very modern nuclear ambitions.  From Der Spiegel: Iran has broken the seals at nuclear facilities signaling its intention to start production of enriched uranium anew. This is seen as a major provocation in Europe and many newspapers in Germany warn that it’s

Biden: “With all due respect, Judge—and I say this in the spirit of congeniality—you’re quite the racist, aren’t you?” Alito:  “No sir, I don’t believe I am.” Biden: “Sure you are.” Alito:  “No, I –” Biden:  “Yes, you are.” Alito:  “—Actually, I don’t believe I’m a racist at all, Senator –” Biden:  “It’s okay, you can say it, I’m not judging you.  I’m simply noting that it must be hard

If you watch old 40s noirs, you find lots of white guys named Leon.  Now?  Not so much.