Sausages affected by draconian trade laws A SPICY sausage known as the Welsh Dragon will have to be renamed after trading standards’ officers warned the manufacturers that they could face prosecution because it does not contain dragon. The sausages will now have to be labelled Welsh Dragon Pork Sausages to avoid any confusion among customers. Jon Carthew, 45, who makes the sausages, said yesterday that he had not received any

Tim Noah at Slate wonders whether the Dems oughtn’t Dump Pelosi? Hey, did you know that she’s the first ever female Speaker of the House?

So I’m hanging out in line at Best Buy to get a PS3, been there all night, and I’m third in line, when all of a sudden this desperate-looking white boy comes up to me and says he’ll give me a grand from John Edwards to let him have my spot.  Well, he looked so sad I said okay, and he gave me ten crisp $100 bills, and thanked me. 

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Do they do these headlines on purpose? Doc’s Appt. Angers Family Planning Group It’s an AP story.  Can the writer possibly realize what this sounds like . . . at least to us wingnuts? The Bush administration, to the consternation of its critics, has picked the medical director of an organization that opposes premarital sex, contraception and abortion to lead the office that oversees federally funded teen pregnancy, family planning

I’m too “tired” to do this properly, so I’m wondering if one of you folks–Karl, maybe?–would like to have some fun with this post where loonbats claim that voting machines were hacked to skew things towards the Republicans, only not enough to affect the outcome of the Midterms, beyond preventing a Democrat landslide.  Their evidence?  Exit polling. Clear Evidence 2006 Congressional Elections Hacked Hoo boy!  Chock Full O’ Nuts. Karl

rage, rage against the guy who caught you pissing on his grandmother’s tombstone. Media discovers new rage Rage is all the rage.  It seems that we live in the Age of Rage. Earlier this week we were introduced to ”internet rage” leading to an attack by one chatroom user against another with a pickaxe handle (no, I mean a physical handle for wielding a physical implement; surely you remember those).

Is presently being pumped through YouTube.  Powerful.  Check it out while you can. h/t LGF

For those of you not very familiar with the BBC, every Briton who owns and uses a television is required to pay a licensing fee, much of which goes to funding the operations of the Beeb.  The BBC and the British Council are enormously influential the world over, and the Beeb is also notoriously anti-Semitic, though they’d make the mitigating distinction of being anti-Zionist.  In this wonderful post, Peter Glover