Did I mention that I was looking forward to seeing Borat?  I’m pretty sure I did. And I was going to, yesterday, with son Brendan (15).  But then Mary and the girl (Mairead, 11) decided that they really needed to go to the Alpaca Show, and I couldn’t find a play-date or film companion for Aidan (13, schizophrenia), and I ended up having to accompany Aidan to Flushed Away, which

Check out the new PowerLine News.  Clean lines.  Beauty.  My friend Joe Malchow, when he wasn’t being instrumental in getting the proposed anti-democratic revisions to the Dartmouth Constitution shot down, played a major role in getting this together.  In my view, it’s best in show.  Probably save you guys some time in the morning, as well.

From Glenn Reynolds: DUMBEST. TV SHOW. EVER. Last night I caught a few minutes of “The Celebrity Paranormal Project” on VH1. Celebrities festooned with Ghostbusters-type gear, wandering around allegedly haunted places. Picabo Street as a medium. Jeez. However, I can report that Mariel Hemingway remains very hot. She deserves better. But then, so do we. . . . Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety; other women

Move over, Karl Marx.  Roll over, Beethoven.  Get outta town, Nostradamus. The long awaited Monkifesto is now available for the first time on the intarweb: If you want the Monkifesto in a nutshell, here it is: Pax Americana is drawing to a close. Pax Sinae is here: http://tinyurl.com/y9teo3 Any country that relies on economic or military support from America to survive now beter start pleading their case to the Chinese

Is it my fading memory, or has this polical season been the worst ever?  I blush to admit that I’ve only followed politics starting with the 2000 election season, and even then, I didn’t pay all that much attention.  Most of my information was from sound-bites from sparingly-watched news programs, and from the Maclaughlin group.  Once I started reading blogs, which I think was around 2001, I slowly morphed into

I’ve learned a lot. I’m not somebody who makes the same mistake twice.”–John Kerry Yeah, I realize that, but you have the seemingly endless capacity for devising new ones. …the senator’s lethal gag might be better likened to a suicide bombing: Not only did he blow up himself, but he also blasted shrapnel at Democratic candidates in tight races… …Imus flat out begged Kerry to cease and desist. “Stop talking.

…Which, just once I’d like for this guy to pop out of his hole, fail to see his own shadow, and take that as a hint that even the sun is trying to ignore his preening self-righteousness. That is all.  Back to your pancakes.

“I question the timing, bitches!”

“I’ve heard this poverty nonsense time and time again from Western apologists for Islam, most of them not Muslim by the way. There are millions of passive supporters of terror who may be poor and needy but most of those who do the killing are wealthy, privileged, educated and free. If it were about poverty, ask yourself why it is middle-class Muslims—and never poor Christians—who become suicide bombers in Palestine.”

Yesterday I posted a rodeo round-up of stuff pertaining to the election that’s a referendum on the Iraq War, but seems to have a lot to do with the sexuality of conservatives.  The point of contact, as I saw it, was a consideration of cultural attitudes toward homosexuality in the West as compared with in Islam, and the dissonance that this naturally produces for anti-American and anti-war leftists, among whom