“Regis”:  “—And this time, honey, I want the ‘happy ending’ in carnauba wax, which is easily brushed out—not the hot ginger oil.  Last time when you, y’know, finished me off…it took a week of soaping the duster with Lever 2000 twice a day before I could enjoy a nice single malt Scotch.  In the meantime, the Macallan would just bead up on me like little brown single malt boils.”

me: “For some reason, I have a Bellamy Brothers song playing in a continuous loop in my head.  ‘Let Your Love Flow.’ You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?” Klonopin:  “You mean, like, a clinical, pharmaceudically-related answer?  No, not really.  But from a psychological perspective, I’ve noticed that you’re prone to nostalgia.  And of course, that you’re crazy as a syphillitic bat.” Klonopin:  “If that helps.”

Cathy Young answers Jane Galt’s argument that “the current law [on reproductive rights] strikes me as a reasonable compromise between the needs of the women and the needs of the child”: It’s interesting that the woman and the child are the only two parties Jane seems to consider. As for the argument that other biological disparities in reproduction favor men, it is something that I have considered myself. But here’s

From the AP: Eyeing House and Senate elections this fall, Democrats are stepping up their effort to cut into the public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security. Congressional Democrats vow to provide U.S. agents with the resources to hunt down Osama bin Laden and ensure a “responsible redeployment of U.S. forces” from Iraq in 2006 in a national security policy statement House and Senate Democratic leaders were announcing

From AFP: Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, a German magazine reports in its latest edition, citing Western security sources. The German magazine Cicero says that during the Hajj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia in aircraft laid on by the oil-rich kingdom. Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of

Today I will be joining Ace as co-host of his “Hoist the Black Flag” radio show on Rightalk. Tune in at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is Clint W. Taylor, who runs the Nail Yale blog at Townhall.com. Sadly, I don’t yet have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone.  Havoc is certain to break loose, naturally. Please do call in with any

Take one Kelo decision.  Add a local politician.  Mix with a dash of arrogance and strained interpretation.  Yield:  the goverment essentially owns all private property.  It just allows you to lease it.  From the WSJ, here’s NY attorney Ed Herlihy: There’s been a lot of controversy lately about eminent domain–the government’s power to confiscate private property and put it to public use. The furor erupted last year when the Supreme

Here’s how leftwing blogger Tbogg (whom I imagine sits in a “study” papered with posters of Bill Maher and George Carlin, cursing Steve Colbert for landing a gig that was rightfully his) interpreted my post on the Interpol story from last evening.  The story noted that al Qaeda is preparing to launch a biological weapons attack: Shorter Jeff Goldstein It is a damn shame that there is neither a leader

     “That’s right.  Jesus Christ hisself appeared to me in a dream and demanded I buy Peter Jackson’s King Kong on DVD.  So it looks like you’re gonna have to wait til next week to hit Payless, honey.  “Sorry.  But when the Lord tells you to spend the extra $10, you do it—simple as that.”