Sometimes, on cold nights, I like to sit in front of a cozy fire with a Tawny port and my dog, Bo, listening to Tchaikovsky’s “Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf” and roasting butter and cinnamon-stuffed Granny Smith apples. Then — if the night is clear and the mood is just right — I like to touch myself with a hank of beef jerky, or maybe even a s’more,

Massachusetts: so cutting edge that it often runs the risk of slicing off its own nose to spite its progressive face. Case in point, from the AP: A trial that opened more than a year ago has become bogged down in Boston federal court. There have been hundreds of hours of testimony from witnesses, including 10 medical specialists paid tens of thousands of dollars. The judge himself even hired an

Now, were I Ace, I’d probably say something like, “Gee, I sure hope it wasn’t the kind of ‘growth’ that comes with an inaugural fisting.”* But I’m not, so I won’t. Thankfully, some of us have standards. **** glass half full update: To make room for Paris, Larry King bumped Michael Moore. Meaning that propaganda was bumped for shallow plasticity — a step forward, if you ask me. Moore’s next

53-46. Here’s the roll. Allah liveblogged the thing — leaving me time to concentrate on the important issues like Liz and JohnJohn — and breaks out the humping robot. Of course, as Nanonymous notes in another thread, we are essentially celebrating the last of the President’s political capital having been pissed away. And, may I add, on something engineered in large part by Teddy Kennedy — who is as impervious

Well, if we put aside the Immigration Reform Bill and an unwillingness on the part of Bushco to adequately defend themselves against years of unrelenting falsehoods and misimpressions, that is. Still, from Bloomberg News: Among the markets that say President George W. Bush is doing “a heck of a job,” the one he can take the most satisfaction from is U.S. Treasury bills. That’s because the unexpected surge in tax

From the Houston Chronicle: Former U.S. House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s attorney stopped short of calling on prosecutors to give up after the state’s highest criminal court Wednesday upheld the dismissal of a criminal conspiracy indictment against DeLay. But Houston attorney Dick DeGuerin predicted DeLay will be acquitted of the other charges against him if the long-running case over political contributions in Texas legislative races ever goes to trial. “We’re

As even FOXNews (by way of RoboShep. Surprise!) joins the ranks of “journalists” who have now “reported” that Ann Coulter said she wished John Edwards would be killed in a terrorist assassination plot, the Liz and Johnny Haircut media-aided fundraising show continues apace — with Liz set to appear on “Good Morning America” (where the same dishonest Edwards’ campaign-edited clip will likely again be trotted out) and John set to

First came the orchestrated “call for civility.” Then came tonight’s follow-up performance, in which a fawning Chris Matthews gave John Edwards the “forum” (read: campaigning platform) to raise money by playing off the right wing “crazy” folk. The transcript of Edwards’ appearance is here. For me, two points of the exchange between Matthews and Edwards — and let’s face it, this was less an interview than it was a coordinated