I was out walking my dog a few minutes ago when I came upon a densely populated prairie dog town on a stretch of scrub land bordering the northeast boundary of our subdivision. When I stopped to ask some of the prairie dogs for their papers, not one of them could produce a green card—and several others pretended not to understand me, then bolted for their holes. Which only confirmed
March 7, 2007
If instead of a weasely, inside the Beltway cocktail circuit star, former Ambassador Joe Wilson were a particularly rank fart
Wilson: “What? Don’t look at me. Besides, he who smelt it dealt it. Warmonger.”
Jesus Wept
From the Rocky Mountain News: Those Geico “cavemen” may get their own television series. ABC said Friday it has ordered a pilot for a comedy, tentatively titled “Cavemen,” that features the characters used in a series of ads by the insurance company. In the potential series, the cavemen “struggle with prejudice on a daily basis as they strive to live the lives of normal thirtysomethings in 2007 Atlanta.” The advertising
Here We Go Again (CraigC)
Michelle has an item about Matt Sanchez, a U.S. Marine who has been making the rounds of the talk shows, and appeared at this year’s CPAC. Turns out that Corporal Sanchez, in a former life was, you guessed it, a GAY PORN STAR!! There are now tawdry rumors about Sanchez’s past lighting up the left-wing blogs. Cpl. Sanchez says he will respond on his blog. I googled Corporal Sanchez, and
Take the last train to Darksville
For those of you interested in the Scooter Libby trial, Tom Maguire unspins the spin being put out by Media Matters. Maguire has tirelessly unpacked the entire case—which has resulted, rather predictably, I think, in a travesty of justice—all in the service of a feverish Bush hatred. As the editors at National Review put it: Because Bush’s stubbornly ill-informed political opponents persist in basing their attacks on discredited statements from
Venerating Vietnam [by Melissa] Updated
You know how a teenager feels triumphant when he gets permission to drive to a party and drinks and feels so adult. And then, in his drunken stupidity drives home and causes an accident where an innocent stranger dies? The Democrat party waxes nostalgic about their first car ride and party and conveniently forgets the deaths they caused after their joy-ride. I have never been able to understand the Left’s
Principles in Academia: An object lesson [Pablo]
Last October, the administration of Virginia’s College of William and Mary removed the 100 year old Wren Cross from the school’s 274 year old Wren Chapel. In an Op-Ed published in the Richmond Times-Dispatch, college President Gene Nichol explained the rationale behind the removal, as related by W&M’s daily DoG Street Journal: “I may be the only person left in America who hasn’t written an op-ed about the Wren Cross.
Attractive Nuisances [Dan Collins]
An Iraqi national wearing wires and concealing a magnet inside his rectum triggered a security scare at Los Angeles International Airport on Tuesday but officials said he posed no apparent threat. Wha??? Speaking of Ass Magnets . . . The French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists. The law could lead to the imprisonment
“The forty acres and a mule follow-up x 4 post†(from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
I hate to sound ungrateful—but anybody else beginning to think we should have held out for “forty acres and a Dodge Ram 2500 with a good-sized winch? Because this fencing? Fucking heavy, bro.”
