”That’s not the way we do things here.” Poor John Harrumphreys.  Oh, it’s much more than strap-on.  It’s Bolt-on.

What?  Mr. Bishop-of-Rome-Guy presumes to lecture us on morality?  Who died and made him Pope?  We’re Congresspeople, goddammit! A group of 18 Catholic House Democrats publicly disputed Pope Benedict XVI’s recent condemnation of politicians who support abortion rights, saying that “such notions offend the very nature of the American experiment.” On his flight to Brazil last Wednesday (May 9), Benedict said Catholic politicians in Mexico City who recently voted to

After he struck out the first four batters, I called a friend of mine to ask if there’s a special category for perfect games where every batter strikes out.  The best we could come up with is a Kryptonite Sombrero.  I’m still a little worried about his back problems, but barring injury, it looks like he’s a lock for at least one of these in his career.  A perfect game

D.C. May Be Losing Status Mmmmmmmmmmmmmilk chocolate.

We’re sorry.  You are still sober.  Please imbibe again. (from Wunderland.com)

“Fear my strategery”—GW Bush, uttered while bathing in the spilled BLOOD OF FREEDOM!

My Uncle Jim used to claim that was a name given to a certain portion of the 43rd Infantry during WWII, but it appears that something by “Trout Fishing in America, Shorty,” entitled “Teetotalitarianism’s Lament” has usurped the description: If you stare at it long enough, it kind of looks like a painting.

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I linked this piece in a comment yesterday, but it is such a brilliant essay that it deserves its own post—and deserves to be untarnished by my interpolations. Alas, that second bit just ain’t gonna happen, as interpolation to me is like catnip to a fat Tabby.  Cathy Young, “Enforcing Virtue” (Reason, March 2007 print edition): It’s the debate that won’t die: the endless face-off between conservatives and libertarians over

From Vincent Carroll: Earlier this year, a student at Rocky Mountain High School in Fort Collins approached Amy Oliver, the director of operations at the Independence Institute who hosts a radio talk show in northern Colorado. The student showed her a test question from a math class that read in part: “In 1988, there were 6.047 million people registered to vote in Florida. … The number of Democrats was 0.908