Hi!  I’m posting this from a wild discoteque!  I can hardly hear myself think, much less type! I’ve been to Ibiza, Milan, Paris, Barcelona, Buenos Aires . . . I’ve sampled the nightlife.  But almost nothing compares to the place I am now!  I think I may have taken too much ecstasy.  Rio . . . what, beautiful?  No . . . my online friends.  Yeah, just a minute.  I

“To the left, To the left, To the left, To the left, To the left To the left,…” That sounds a lot like some of the least-loved commenters around PW. “I could have another you in a minute matter fact he’ll be here in a minute – baby” Yep.  When one troll leaves, two take his place. Answer ghosted here ->“Irreplaceable,” Beyonce.

I’d give my eyeteeth for a comment one-tenth as good as this: “Trudeau said the State had no business in the bedrooms of the nation. Apparently this doesn’t apply to toboggan hills. First we need to nuke the Amazon rainforest so I don’t have to hear about it anymore. Then we need to train all the endangered species to fight terrorists because clearly, our helmet wearing, peanut-allergic wimpy children won’t

Student felled by moose head sues Back in my day, when we had too much beer, we simply puked, passed out, dragged our sorry asses to classes the next day, and got on with our lives. An American student is suing her university for negligence after a mounted moose head fell on her from a wall during a biology exam. Oops, my bad.  Well, look . . . what kind

—Before you even get started, let me just tell you straight out that it ain’t gonna happen today.  And that’s because, in what he’s assured me was a regrettable, one-time occurrence, the little guy had himself “an horrific Oedipal moment” (his words) that he’s sure will “scar him for life.” Without going into much detail—and without causing the poor wretch too much embarrassment—let me just say, by way of explanation,

Murtha in Iraq. COLONEL:  You write “Born to Kill” on your helmet and you wear a peace button. What’s that supposed to be, some kind of sick joke?! JOKER: No, sir. COLONEL: You’d better get your head and your *ss wired together, or I will take a giant sh*t on you! JOKER: Yes, sir. COLONEL: Now answer my question or you’ll be standing tall before the man. JOKER:  I think

Once upon a time, there lived a plodding tortoise and an excitable hare.  Now, as it happens, the two parties didn’t know each other very well—running, as they did, in different social circles—nor did they have occasion to interact in any truly substantive way, though both lived to be quite long in the tooth.  Consequently, the two never seriously debated, and so they never raced—meaning that the wisdom of a

My laptop, a 3-year old hp pavilion zd7000 (which I’ve twice had repaired after thinking it was dead), is now, officially, on its last legs.  In fact, I doubt very much it will last the week. Because I do nearly all of my blogging on my laptop (I still have a Mac G5 desktop), I’m going to need a replacement.  And because I haven’t been following along with developments in

At something called the Daily Gut.  Looks interesting. A taste: INSTAPUNDIT SAYS HILLARY IS ELECTABLE Here. Therefore, I think so too! That’s how it works, or so I’m told by people who devote a lot of time and energy to disliking Glenn Reynolds. (It’s a cottage industry!) Because all bloggers you don’t agree with must agree with each other 100% of the time, right? Ha Ha!  Poor guy. . .

In the comments to yesterday’s post on Nibras Kazimi’s New Yor Sun article, Karl excerpts what I think is an important addendum to Kazimi’s op-ed from professor of strategy and policy for the U.S. Naval War College’s Monterey Program, Donald Stoker.  In a Foreign Policy web exclusive, “Insurgencies Rarely Win – And Iraq Won’t Be Any Different (Maybe)”, Stoker writes: The cold, hard truth about the Bush administration’s strategy of