After the anticipated shit-storm of dirty tricks from Rahm “Twinkletoes” Emanuel and the Left this month, a note of hope from Jed Babbin at Real Clear Politics to provide balance on what might otherwise be a rather depressing day: The Republicans should realize two things. First, as ABC’s political director Mark Halperin wrote a few days ago, Republican strengths are real. If Republicans start filtering the media-generated noise out of

You just knew that the other cosmological shoe was going to drop, didn’t you? Vatican to review state of limbo The Pope is said never to have believed in the concept Catholic experts are expected to advise Pope Benedict XVI that teachings on the state of limbo – somewhere between heaven and hell – should be amended. ****** Our correspondent says some have suggested that the possible change is an

Cinema companies Regal Entertainment and Cinemark have decided not to carry British director Gabriel Range’s Death of a President which shows President George W. Bush assassinated after giving a speech to a business organization.  AMC hasn’t determined whether or not to show the picture yet.  How or how not this may affect your choice of where to see movies is of course up to you.  I report, you deride. Death

WTF, I watch Battlestar Galactic, it’s a great show or at least I used to think it was. Last night was the season premeire and they seem to have decided to turn it into a bash America show. When I first started watching it seemed like a good parallel of what was going on in the world. Cylons attacked the humans for no real reasons, just some perceived wrongs, and

While we’ve been doing whatever it is we’ve been doing here, bringing teh funny, or teh snark, or teh sincerity, or even teh substantive analysis, Patterico’s been posting a five-part series of interviews with a military psych nurse from Guantanamo.  If you haven’t read it yet, I urge you to do so.  There’s an interesting tidbit involving PW near the end of the fifth and final installment.

Smoke ‘em if you can remember where you put ‘em. For the record, I think anyone over 65 ought to be permitted to take whatever substances they like.  Why 65?  Because I said so. ALSO: Iowa State University anecdote proves we’re all shallow. BREAKING NEWS: Men have feelings! UPDATE: Fecking intergalactic aliens subpoenaed, so far refuse to respond.  They have no respect for our legal system.  O’Reilly proposes wall. UPDATE

Judelawadrilla apologizes to Sh*ttsburghers. Lame.  Figure she’s ready for Congress (note, capital “C”) yet? UPDATE: People tell me to lay off of Natalie Portman, because she’s hot.  Screw that: NEW YORK – Audrey Hepburn has a clone: Natalie Portman. The 25-year-old Portman, wearing the iconic black column dress worn by Hepburn in 1961’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” graces the cover of the upcoming issue of Harper’s Bazaar. A smiling Portman —

Here’s today’s second block of videos from YouTube, as gathered for my regular web gig. The Vogues:

The last time I checked, I wasn’t able to feel physical things, in this case water, any other way (song was released in 2005). “Feel the rain on your skin,” Natasha Bedingfield. Note: as I said the first time, this is music lip-synched by drag-queens, not written or recorded by them.