A couple of days ago, one of us–a regular commenter, I believe–in response to a droll but penetrating observation I’d made about the GOP, said something to the effect that: a Democrat president and Congress could really, truly fuck things up. God.  I lived through Carter once. I can’t go through that again. Well, the Islamist-sucking sycophant is back, and criticising the Bush administration as: “the worst in history” in

Tomita shrugs off the obvious question: ”Who in the world is going to read bacteria?” (h/t Allahpundit) Virgin receives approval ”What’s it like to go on a date in a war zone?” When I was single, I had some relationships that were war zones.

Things got really heated when Cornyn accused McCain of being too busy campaigning for president to take part in the negotiations, which have gone on for months behind closed doors. “Wait a second here,” Cornyn said to McCain. “I’ve been sitting in here for all of these negotiations and you just parachute in here on the last day. You’re out of line.” McCain, a former Navy pilot, then used language

From The Paper Chase (U of Pitt law): Senator Arlen Specter (R-PA), the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, predicted Thursday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will resign from his post at the conclusion of current investigations into the allegedly-political firings of federal prosecutors. Specter’s comments followed others made by Senator Chuck Hagel (R-NE) Wednesday, who suggested that by remaining in his position, Gonzales was harming the Justice Department.

From a security perspective—and as a matter of permanent US policy—we should never, ever preemptively take the use of tactical nukes off the table when dealing with a foreign enemy.  That being said, in this particular instance, I’d be tempted to opt for fire hoses or sausage canons—or maybe even some Barry Manilow piped in over a loudspeaker system if things get really desperate. After all, we wouldn’t want a

Fonda:  “This reminds of the time when the studios tried to get Hopper blacklisted for allegedly doping his horse with LSD during the filming of True Grit. What happened was, Universal kinda leaked this bogus story to Variety to justify the lousy distribution they were going to give his The Last Movie—which the suits just didn’t feel, you know?—even though they knew from Warren Oates that the horse in question

My, how convenient! Not that I’d presume to tell them what to do, of course (because of the Otherness), but were it me, I’d probably vote myself some free healthcare, free college tuition, provisional citizenship (keeping alive my free healthcare and tuition), and maybe try to get a ballot initiative together that would require Bexar County, TX to provide me with a new Dodge Nitro.  From the WOAI: Hundreds of

I can’t be the only person who pores over the entirety of this post and comes away thinking only one thing:  “Wait, Yanni used to bang Linda Evans?  The fuck…?” That’s like finding out Zamfir was the meat in a coke-dusted Kristy McNichol, Tatum O’Neal sex sandwich. My childhood has been cheapened. Seriously.  Now I know what Kierkegaard was on about with all his blather about dread. 

starts my day off right with an email link to an article posing the question: A missing student is found dead, in portable toilet, in apparent overdose. How can colleges prevent such tragedies? Wow.  I hardly know where to begin with this, but it seems to me that the usual college reaction would be to ban portable toilets. They also have a bit on the Dartmouth Trustee Elections which Joe