Does Phillip’s Milk of Magnesia have any of the same ice-melting properties as Magnesium Chloride?  Because if not, I fear I’ve left myself vulnerable to both constipation and a tacky, mint-smelling driveway that will soon be slick as a snail’s pudendum. Which ain’t likely to win me any votes at the HOA elections, I can tell you that much. Developing…

Former Us Weekly gossip columnist Timothy McDarrah, arrested in New York last year by undercover federal agents, has been found guilty of charges related to soliciting sex with a minor. . . . . McDarrah, 44, responded in June 2005 to a posting on the craigslist.com Web site offering introductions to the “freshest, youngest” girls in New York, an FBI affidavit said. The gossip writer told an undercover FBI agent,

John Edwards is running for president again. Never mind his platform—how’s his hair?

I’ve got no particular beef against Joe Rago, to whose doltish antibloggist op-ed in the WSJ we’ve shown our hobnails.  He was the Dartmouth Review editor, and, who knows, my buddy Joe Malchow at Joe’s Dartblog may know him.  I suppose that if we went out for a beer, we might find we agree on a good many things, and after a few of them it’s possible he might even

me: “So.  How’s it hanging?” saddam’s corpse: me: “Get it?  How’s it hanging?” saddam’s corpse: me: “Well, I thought it was clever –” saddam’s corpse: “– Look, Jewboy. . . .” Developing . . . .

From the blogads at Power Line comes this question: Do you have the Olbermann Widget yet? No, thank God, and I plan to practice safe sex during the coming year. UPDATED: Botoxoplasmosis? “Interestingly, the effect of [Toxoplasma gondii] infection is different between men and women,” Dr Boulter writes in the latest issue of Australasian Science magazine. “Infected men have lower IQs, achieve a lower level of education and have shorter

My invitation to a spiritual inventory as preparation for the holidays was such a success that I am emboldened now to bid you look to the future.  What are your resolutions for the New Year, for yourself?  What are your mild suggestions, your constructive criticisms for others with whom you may, percase, disagree?