Elizabeth:  “I’m a bit torn on this one, honestly, because some of my best friends are black.  Dark black, too.  And of course, I’d really like to see Shaun Wayans continue to get work. “But so long as we’re speaking about Colorado: did I ever tell you about the time Hunter Thompson said that my nipples were so perfectly fearsome that, should they ever strike a blind man, they’d actually

—Mainly for believing in the tenets of his religion—a trend that, should it continue, would make the unwritten requirement for being elected to public office a perverse need to appear religious, even as the candidate doesn’t really believe in any of that hocus pocus. Which, come to think of it, perfectly describes a host of Democratic presidential hopefuls.  But I digress.  From ABC/AP:  President Bush’s nominee for surgeon general, Kentucky

And no, I’m not talking about Scooter Libby this time, either.  From the AP: A man sentenced to 10 years in prison for having consensual oral sex with a 15-year-old girl when he was 17 should have to serve out the widely criticized mandatory term, a prosecutor told a judge Wednesday. A lawyer for Genarlow Wilson, now 21, asked the appellate judge to throw out the aggravated child molestation sentence

In 1769, frontiersman Daniel Boone first began to explore present-day Kentucky.  As did an unnamed raccoon—though for his part, he did so involuntarily.  And without any internal organs. In 1929, the sovereign state of Vatican City came into existence—giving birth to the very first Vatican City gift shop, and introducing the world to the “action figure.” Which in this case was a 10” Pope Pius XI doll that could, with

Sometimes, it really is good to stand up to the Man—particularly when the Man in question is being played by a collection of heavy-handed bureaucrats willing to wield power as capriciously as a transient drunk on ripple wields his pecker.  From the RMN: Five Illinois students will get the diplomas they were denied when cheers erupted for them at a high school graduation, and school officials said Wednesday they would