A wealthy sheikh walks into his business manager’s office excited about an idea he thinks is destined to revolutionize the distribution of oil.       The business manager, after listening intently to the plan, leans forward in his chair and shakes his head, frowning.  “Frankly”—he looks the sheikh right in the eye—“I think it’s a lousy idea.”      “But why?” the sheik asks, clearly a bit shaken by the rebuke.      “Well, first of

The official Rocky Mountain Blogger Bash will be held 2/18 at the Breckenridge Brewery, Blake St, Denver, 6 PM – Unfortunately, they don’t serve Guinness (the one beer that seems to work well with my meds)—so I won’t be staying long.  However, if I’m going to be shelling out big bucks for a baby sitter anyway, I may as well find a few pubs within walking distance that a) can

Arby’s employee:  “Hello, and welcome to Arby’s.  May I take your –” Feingold:  “LIAR! You, your so-called ‘roast beef,’ all lies—AND LET THE RECORD SHOW THAT I AM NOT FOOLED BY A WORD OF YOUR MAGICAL TALKING OVEN MITT’S WILD CLAIMS OF ‘SUCCULENT’ MEAT ‘PILED HIGH’!  “Question:  Why must you be such a lying liar who insists, while speaking into your little microphone, on LYING?  And before you answer that—let

From NZ Bear: I just completed adding a new feature here at Porkbusters: the Pork Hall of Shame. This will be a place for us to recognize those Congresscritters who have their noses deepest in the Federal trough. We plan many different Awards of Shame, but for our first challenge, we are seeking examples of Congressional web sites which boast of pork that the Representative or Senator has “brought home”.

Two very interesting essays worth pointing out this morning that deal with the ongoing Danish cartoon controversy in interesting ways. First, here’s Steve Green, from “The Offensive Offensive”: I never wanted this Terror War to escalate into Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations.” The way I figured it, going into Iraq was our one best chance to give someplace in the Arab World their one best chance to produce a civil

“Some folks hate the whites who hate the blacks who hate the clan / Most of us hate anything that we don’t understand” – The Prophet Mohammed Kris Kristofferson **** related?  Dunno.  But certainly inflamatory.  ANTI-PEACENIK! (via Tom Pechinski)

I’m not the most religious person in the world, but even I recognize that, to many devout Christians, abortion, say, is an unpardonable sin—a social / physical act that though sanctioned by the laws of the state and therefore legal, is nevertheless irreconciliable with the basic foundational tenets of their fundamental Christian faith.  And yet somehow I can’t for a second imagine that Steve Gilliard would spend as much time

“Drunk by halftime with a t-shirt covered in guacamole dribs and crumbled bits of lime-tinged tortilla chips” is going off at 3-1. $10 minimum bet, please.