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June 2006

It’s Friday, Jeff.  And that, my friend, means—(UPDATED)

—yeah, yeah, I know it.  And the truth is, the little bastard danced up a storm all afternoon.  In fact, he was like a young Deney Terrio, to hear him talk about it.  Or at least, a middle-aged Adrian Zmed. But here’s the thing:  after my landlord showed up unexpectedly this afternoon with an elderly couple interested in buying the house out from under us, I disappeared into the toolshed

If instead of a famous Romantic poet, Samuel Taylor C*leridge were foul-mouthed hard-left “feminist” Amanda Marc*tte (UPDATED TO ACKNOWLEDGE MY FAILINGS AS A “A CLUMSY, CHATTERING HACK WHO STRINGS WORDS TOGETHER IN LUMPY, CLATTERING, ARRHYTHMIA")

“This Laun-dry Basket my Prison” Well, they are gone, and here must I remain, This laun-dry basket my prison! I have lost Countless men (and all respectability) such as would have been Most sweet to my remembrance when age had Dimm’d mine eyes to heteronormative gambits most venal! They, Meanwhile, Penises whom I never more shall meet again, (To their utter delight, and in answer to their prayers, I dare

Here you go.

Stuff this into your salted herring and smoke it. (h/t Brian T)

Conservative Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy orders lunch at a fancy Georgetown restaurant

Kennedy:  “Uh, I’ll just have whatever Stevens, Breyer, Ginsburg, and Souter are having.” **** update:  “Oh.  And if you could find out what Pinch Sulzberger eats for dessert and bring me one of those, too, I’d really appreciate it.”

Just in case it wasn’t already dead…

Relying on Congressional sources, USA Today further exposes details about the NSA “domestic surveillance” initiative, another boot to the skull of the already moribund program.  But don’t complain:  the death of this empirically vile assault on your civil liberties (about which few specifics are known, sure—but you must admit it certainly sounds just awful!) is for your own good.  Even if you don’t believe it.  And let’s be honest here: 

I was hoping for maybe Cat Stevens

Please, Che it isn’t so! I have a feeling the fix was in.  Had to be.  Though to be honest, my curiosity is so piqued that I’m going to run out later and buy a beret and a motorcycle.  And some chicken enchilados.  Of course, I was planning on having the enchilados anyway.  So that last part is entirely coincidental.

Odds, Ends

1) After fighting off a nasty case of internal Turkish log infestation (and we all know how painful that can be) The Jawa Report is now back up and running.  2) Via The New Editor, the ultimate in preemptive excuse making / paranoid conspiracy mongering:  Beyond Moonbat.  Because remember, it’s not really losing if the game is fixed by neocon warmongers and their 59 million or so redneck operatives. 3)

variations on a theme: The “an ordinary clock glimpsed in its moment of brief John Paul Stevensesque awakening” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

tic tic tic tic tic “Before we tic any further, have we checked with the Belgians on this?” tic tic tic

BREAKING:  Iranian Fighters Captured in Iraq

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Decline and Fall? (UPDATED)

In a 5-3 ruling—which featured 3 separate dissenting opinions (Alito, Scalia, and Thomas, with Chief Justice Roberts having recused himself) –SCOTUS ruled that military tribunals overstep Executive authority, a ruling that could grant de facto Geneva Convention protections to al Qaeda members, though this bit from SCOTUS Blog (via Hot Air, which is offering outstanding coverage and commentary as the story unfolds) gives me pause: The Court expressly declared that