—Hey, now that’s not fair! First off, I don’t make “excuses,” I simply report the facts. And second, there is nothing “standard” about an armadillo willingly taking time away from his passion for dance to represent his country at the Torino Winter Olympics—even going so far as to fly to Italy on his own dime, so proud is he of the red white and blue. Though, to be honest with
February 17, 2006
When originalism is driven to despair
From News Blaze: According to a Baptist Minister, the U.S. Constitution prevents Hillary Rodham Clinton – or any woman – from serving as President. He says that contrary to what feminists think, the 19th Amendment did not de-gender the nation’s highest office. Article II, Section 1 declares 16 times the President will be a man. That’s right, men only. Women need not apply. Sexist? Maybe, but that’s the law of
Snow bawlin’ [UPDATED]
I suppose because he’s black, Michael Bowen of the Cobb blog is the final authority on such things, but let me take a moment to briefly respond to his post naming me as one of a handful of “mealy-mouthed” “crybaby” “losers” engaging in the kind of “squirrel chatter” he sees in last night’s post about Bryant Gumbel’s Winter Olympics comments. Writes Bowen: Some (loser) folks have gone off on mini-tirades
A high tolerance for the fatwa? [UPDATED]
From the AP: A Pakistani cleric announced Friday a $1 million bounty for killing a cartoonist who drew Prophet Muhammad, as thousands joined street protests and Denmark temporarily closed its embassy and advised its citizens to leave the country. Police confined the former leader of an Islamic militant group to his home to prevent him from addressing supporters over the cartoons, amid fears he could incite violence, after riots this
Relativity
3 years, eh? Wow. You realize, of course, that if your blog were a dog, it would be at a pub right now celebrating its 21st birthday drinking tequila shots with friends—only to find out later, after it attempted to punch out the cop who was getting all chesty while trying to clear the sidewalk after closing—that its friends were drinking water shots the whole time (the assholes) and giggling
Life is like a box of chocolates. Unless you are WHITE!
A treasure trove of clips available from tonight’s “Hannity & Colmes”—from Dick Morris suggesting Cheney may have been hammered and that the secret service and other members of the hunting party are covering up for him (which I guess we can attribute to “Post-traumatic Clinton Syndrome” and Morris’ propensity to see everything through the lens of political calculation) to Alan Colmes’ Spike Lee moment, where he argues, along with NPR’s
