Freshen Up chewing gum the Best Buy receipt for a TV you only bought to watch the Super Bowl and had every intention of returning shortly after a Dixie cup packed with earthworms the severed finger of a transient you had hoped to keep as a “trophy” 70 or so sugar packets stolen from Ihop a stillborn jackrabbit wax lips combination of micropourous drug delivery balloon filled with heroin and

From today’s Rocky Mountain News, p. 36A: Top: “Dems stick to troop pullout”: Democratic-backed legislation to withdraw U.S. combat troops from Iraq cleared an initial Senate hurdle Wednesday, but Republicans confidently predicted they had the votes to defeat it. President Bush backed them up with a veto threat. The legislation, calling for combat troops to return home over the next 12 months, “would hobble American commanders in the field and

Here’s where I break strongly from social conservatives, law enforcement, and morality warriors/czars, be they on the right or left (but alas, too often on the right).  From CBS/AP: A federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a California woman whose doctor says marijuana is the only medicine keeping her alive is not immune from federal prosecution on drug charges. The case was brought by Angel Raich, an Oakland mother of

Thou shalt have no God besides Human Reason! And Sam Harris came down from the mountain, and said unto the assembled: Let us hope that Stark’s candor inspires others in our government to admit their doubts about God. Indeed, it is time we broke this spell en masse. Every one of the world’s “great” religions utterly trivializes the immensity and beauty of the cosmos. Books like the Bible and the

Pillage Idiot has the report. Personally, I think they’re both faggots.

In an article pondering the youthful Barack Obama’s dual non-religiosity in Indonesia, the LA Times messes up its hagiograph with a variety of contending voices, then compounds the muddle with this: The sensitivity of Islam as a political issue was on display earlier this year with the false report that Obama had attended a radical madrasa here. The report, which appeared initially on a conservative-oriented online magazine and then on

Katherine Kersten has another must-read article on the Flying Imam Circus.  The important part is this: But the most alarming aspect of the imams’ suit is buried in paragraph 21 of their complaint. It describes “John Doe” defendants whose identity the imams’ attorneys are still investigating. It reads: “Defendants ‘John Does’ were passengers … who contacted U.S. Airways to report the alleged ‘suspicious’ behavior of Plaintiffs’ performing their prayer at

Toxicology tests by the state medical examiner’s office showed that Delp committed suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning, said Lt. William Baldwin. Delp also left two notes taped to a door and letters to his family and (his fiancee). I guess you never really know what’s going on in someone’s head. He and his fiancee were going to be married this summer, and the band was getting back together for a

…confesses, and the (entirely non-representative of anyone or anything, ever) progressive netroot cabal at the Huffington Post (which is in no way affiliated with the views of either its members or its heavily-moderated commenters) react. Apparently. —Because it’s my guess that—just as they were when Dick Cheney was thought to be nearly blown up in Bagram—these “commenters” are actually highly-trained and carefully recruited foot soldiers from Free Republic or Townhall

Headline of the Day: Clinton, Obama skirt queries on gays in the military Document: Decline of Western Civilization Taste for Guinness wanes in changing Ireland They can take our lives, but they’ll never take away our stout! Fox attacks Black America (James Rucker in HuffPo) I sent a letter detailing my concerns to the CBC Institute’s director and members of its board who serve in Congress, along with a list