It’s hard to believe that a former Hollywood child star seems to have gone bad like this.  In any case, here’s a little advice for ya, Dave: Next time you’ve got a lid on you, you might want to think about it before you climb out of a car window in the middle of an intersection and start screaming at your wife.  Oh, right……..

From the Rocky Mountain News wire: Several dozen Muslim workers have quit their jobs at a Swift & Co. meatpacking plant in Grand Island, Neb. because their prayer times weren’t accommodated. “They kind of issued the company an ultimatum,” said Dan Hoppes, president of Local 22 of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union. “They went in before the shift started (Monday) and said that they’d go unless they could

If anyone is still reading this trainwreck, please note that I’ll be posting very lightly over the next couple of days.  Tomorrow morning I travel south for a court date arising from my unfortunate run-ins with a certain former “you-knee-verse-it-tee” teacher (or, if you prefer, “non-tenured pee-ache-dee!”), so today I have to pore over old screen shots and the like.  I’ll be gone the entire day tomorrow. So, if some

Falwell fails to respond.  Phelps, though, with true Christian compassion and humility, pronounces his certainty that Falwell has gone to Satan’s bosom. However, Treacher has an excellent post up about the Opie & Anthony kerfuffle, which now has resulted in their being suspended by XM for 30 days–not so much, apparently, for what was said on their program, as for their attempt to explain themselves, rather than prostrating themselves at

How’s Larry Flynt doing?  From NPR’s glowing, non-biased encomium: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. A fundamentalist preacher, Falwell burst onto the national scene in 1979, when he launched an organization he presumptuously called

If the car is a projection of the penis, would you prefer a man who drives a Toyota Landcruiser or, say, a Cooper Mini?  Theoretically speaking. And what do you make of Ed Begley, Jr’s incessant proselytizing for the whole electric package?  Is there such thing as “Tesla envy”? Sorry, but these kinds of things keeps me up at night.

From Radley Balko: In March 2004, two Florida teens—17-year-old male “J.G.W.” and 16-year-old female “A.H.,” as court records refer to them—photographed themselves engaged in sex acts.  Then they sent the pictures from A.H.’s computer to J.G.W.’s email account.  It’s not exactly clear how, but the photos soon wound up in the hands of the police.  Both teenagers were charged with producing child pornography. The sex acts themselves were not illegal;

Uh, that’s ice.  Balls of ice, in fact—falling from the sky like Rocky Mountain oysters from miniature, castrated ice bulls. Best go inside.  Now.  Because I certainly don’t want my tombstone to read, ”Here lies Jeff.  Beaten into a bloody pulp by tiny bull balls made from ice.” What would the dead neighbors think? Developing…

Originally, eons and eons ago, I was going to write a long post, or even a series, on deterrence, suasion, and the future of the GWOT.  But I didn’t. Evidently, it can all be conveyed much more succinctly: There’s a low-casualty model (the one that Edwards, et al. seem intent on marginalizing) and the high casualty model. Your choice. Let me know how all this works out for you folks.

I had to work Saturday, and was caught up in Mother’s Day stuff yesterday, so I didn’t get to check out the news much, and glancingly.  This story, though was at the top of the news all weekend.  I don’t understand what the importance of the child’s gender is to the story, though. CORRECTION: Some outlets are specifying that it’s a “Shrill Cow”