…is to find the historical proof, via Google / Lexis Nexus searches (or what have you), that this newly-minted meme—that the President is using arguments that “no one” of importance has actually ever made (“Bush Using Straw-Man Arguments in Speeches,” by the AP’s Jennifer Loven)—is a complete and utter airbrushing of recent history, not to mention a glaring example of media projection (just about every argument the media has made

     “Lookit:  I promise you can stay and give your regards to the Reverend next week.  But sweetie, that sale on Pocket Fisherman™ is one day only, and while supplies last.  And I can’t risk missing out on a 50%-off Wal-Mart rollback just because you feel the need to kiss the ass of one of the Lord’s earthly proxies. “Sorry, but that’s that.”

Atrios writes: “Jeff Goldstein Explained” WaPo: Abrahams, who has a vast knowledge of improbable scientific literature, compares Gier’s work to that of two Cornell scientists who showed that one attribute of extreme incompetence is “that the person so afflicted is incapable of knowing that he is incompetent.” The study, titled “Unskilled and Unaware of It,” demonstrated that people who scored, on average, at the 12th percentile in tests of humor,

30-years later, and Richard Belzer is still smarting from that fitful polyester morning he woke to the painful epiphany that he wasn’t Lenny Bruce or George Carlin—nor would he ever be.  Hell, he wasn’t even Robert Klein. But god bless him if he doesn’t keep on trying, the conspiracy-ravaged, pock-faced li’l trooper! And I don’t care what anyone says:  Those trademark dark glasses of his?  Provide just the right touch

     “So, what do you think, honey—a round of golf?  Or would you rather squash today?”      “Whichever.  You choose, Muffin. Just so long as we steer clear of Negroes—and any Mexicans we happen to see are either manicuring the greens or mopping the flop sweat off the parquet flooring.  Or, you know, maybe making us a nice pitcher of margaritas at the clubhouse afterwards.”

—Well, it may be Friday, but it’s also St. Patrick’s Day.  So the only chance any of us have at seeing the little fella dance is to sleuth out which Irish pub he’s currently holed up in, then start checking under the skirts of scads of young professional women whose Jameson-soaked Happy Hour loss of inhibitions make them prime targets for what our scheming little armor-plated Lothario assures them is

But don’t panic, Bush haters.  Because this is the kind of compassionate fascism that many of you are cool with —promoted by elites in the best interest of the proles.  From Craig C, via email: Fascism is on the march in Maryland.  The [anti-Bushites] are constantly throwing the word around and don’t even know what it means. Fascism is when the state allows the means of production to remain in

From Iran in Focus: A senior Iranian Ayatollah said on Friday that Iran would never back down from its nuclear pursuit and the nuclear capability was the “dignity of Islam”, state television reported. “The Security Council can do what it likes. We must stand against it since nuclear energy is the dignity of Islam”, Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, who heads the powerful Guardians Council, told worshippers during his Friday prayers sermon

From Atlas Shrugs, “Dhimmitude and Jewhatred at Harvard”: […] Harvard, recipient of millions in bloody Wahhabi Saudi dollars, issued an extraordinarily antisemitic paper on the American Israel political action committee AIPAC here: AIPAC, which is a de facto agent for a foreign government, has a stranglehold on the U.S. Congress…. I am a member of AIPAC and I am a de facto agent? Uh uh. I am just a girl.