Ouch: Paul Hackett was considered a ‘new’ type of Democrat, the kind of candidate the floundering party needed to regain control of at least one house of Congress. Today, however, Hackett has announced he is quitting the race for the U.S. Senate in Ohio and may be leaving politics altogether. Hackett said he was asked to drop out of the race for the U.S. Senate by Senators Harry Reid of

**** More here , here, and here (via STACLU) h/t Tom Pechinski

To all the chicks I once slipped things into, “Happy Valentines Day,” gals!

I’d point out that, according to the hospital spokesman and doctor at this morning’s, press conference, this was an asymptomatic (silent) heart attack caused by a piece of birdshot that migrated either through the bloodstream or managed to get through a shallow portion of the chest cavity and caused an inflammation around the heart—and that complications (like infection), though a possiblity, are treatable—but why bother? Because now the media has

“No one can tell me America doesn’t deserve a national food patty!  And from where I’m standing, I can see absolutely no reason why the falafel—not the ecologically destructive hamburger – shouldn’t receive that honor, as a show of international friendship.” “Sure, visually, Lawrence of Arabia is a great film.  But let’s face it:  from a narrative perspective, the last thing the Arabs needed was some presumptuous white man riding