Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL” Me: ”Really? You might want to rethink that, pal. Seems Pam Anderson has kind of a thing for animals. And if her internet video work is any indication, she can do things to you with her mouth that would make you one torridly excited oblong-headed freak.”* Merrick: Merrick: “I AM AN ANIMAL! Me: “Attaboy. Now. Show up outside her trailer, bang your chest like
April 2006
April 30, 2006
“W.H. Correspondents Dinner: Bush Kills, Colbert Bombs”
Video at Hot Air. Writes Allah: Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field. Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for. Crooks & Liars called the performance “dynamite,†which is close to the truth only insofar as it’s a munitions metaphor. Read Captain Ed for details. In Colbert’s defense,
April 30, 2006
In which I discuss hermeneutics with a leftover steamed dumpling from last night’s dim sum meal, 5
steamed dumpling: “In remarks to the American Enterprise Institute, Justice Scalia, speaking on the topic of imposing foreign law on Americans, said: ‘I expect, and fear, that the Court’s use of foreign law in the interpretation of our Constitution will continue at an accelerÂÂating pace. […] First, because the “living Constitutution paradigm of interpretation prevails on today’s Court, and indeed in our legal community generally. Under this view, it is
April 29, 2006
“Another Saturday Afternoon in the Life of an Evil Reactionary Bush Apologist”: a protein wisdom sudden fiction
“Honey? What’s say we put on those INS caps I picked up on eBay, head down to Wash Park, and stop Hispanic-looking people at random to demand they ‘show us their papers’? “Because Christ, do I ever love the expressions on their little immigrant faces when they feel like they’re about to be arrested, stacked like firewood in the back of some government-issued cattle truck, and dumped on the side
April 29, 2006
Nuclear Midnight
Stop the ACLU’s John Stephenson points to this impressive and thorough Yankee Sailor post, “Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Terrorism,” which examines in some detail the familiar arguments for deterrence, and extrapolates from those arguments the problems likely facing us under current (and future hypothetical) conditions of global nuclear proliferation: […] Going forward into the 21st Century […] a number of changes in the balance of nuclear power have
April 28, 2006
It’s dance time, baby! Bring on the funky land lobster—
—Not gonna happen today, sadly. The little fellow, as it happens, is down in Texas to attend the funeral of a cousin, who rumor has it polished off eight bottles of Pink Grapefruit-flavored Mad Dog 20/20 before wandering out onto SH 114 outside Idalou (around Route 82) looking for a pickup truck to throw himself under. And he found one, too—an old Ford Ranger crammed with beer-sodden Lubbock jocks on
April 28, 2006
“The yin and yang of intimate interpersonal relationships post, 23” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
yin: “I was thinking about making some stuffed truffles for dinner. Would you prefer a crabmeat stuffing, or feta and basil with sundried tomatoes?” yang: “If you’re asking me honestly, I’d say I prefer we skip the truffles altogether and just pit roast the clever little porker who nosed ‘em out of the dirt —maybe with nice honey glaze. But then, this is your gig, so whatever works for you
April 28, 2006
Sure, it’s idiotic. But at least he’s going about it correctly.
From AP/Breitbart, “Sen. Specter Threatens to Block NSA Funds”: Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter said Thursday he is considering legislation to cut off funding for the Bush administration’s secret domestic wiretapping program until he gets satisfactory answers about it from the White House. “Institutionally, the presidency is walking all over Congress at the moment,” Specter, R-Pa., told the panel. “If we are to maintain our institutional prerogative, that may
April 28, 2006
“No Way to Treat a Relative”
Actress and Honorary Chair for PETA, Pamela Anderson—yes, she of “Baywatch” and a moutful of Tommy Lee fame—has penned (in eyeliner, presumably) an op-ed for today’s WSJ that decries the use of real chimpanzees by Hollywood. Let’s have a look, shall we? Writes Pamela: King Kong is my hero. He’s big, muscular, sensitive, a terrific actor—and he’s not real. The use of computer-generated imagery has really taken off in Hollywood.
April 28, 2006
Some Liberals Sense of Snow
From the National Journal’s Hotline, an transcript of yesterday’s White House press gaggle with Scott McClellan, where a reporter (Jim VandeHei?) — likely an acolyte of Juan Cole — registered a complaint about the White House’s choice to have their TVs tuned to FOX News. To be fair, unlike Professor Cole (who has called for FOXNew to be shut down on the grounds that it is “polluting” the information stream)