Yeah. Kind of an embarrassment that some of the country’s most self-avowed “progressive” locales have so gentrified that they’ve become, in essence, that second America John Edwards is always going on about. It’s one thing to rule the proles. But another thing entirely to have to live near them, what with their plastic lawn furniture and their 40 oz bottles of Schlitz tucked inside paper sacks. From USA Today: African-Americans

In comparing recent stories of misconduct by Congresspersons, Allah points out that media reports of Republican Sen Larry Craig’s June arrest on suspicion of “lewd conduct” will include, prominently, Craig’s party affiliation — while the initial stories detailing Rep. Bob Filner’s shoving of a baggage claim attendant at Dulles conspicuously avoided mentioning his being a Democrat. The observation Allah makes is factual. And beyond that, it is relevant — not

From The Wapo: In the end, Gonzales was a man without a constituency outside of the White House. At a Senate hearing on April 19, he endured withering criticism over his professed inability to recall key events in the attorney firings, including details of a meeting on the topic with President Bush and Karl Rove. As the controversy swirled over a period of several months, conservative figures questioned both his

As a footnote to Darleen’s earlier post on the delightful collision between EU presumptuousness and Texas cowboyism, this clip from the three-part documentary Tory! Tory! Tory!, seems quit apropos. Notes David Thompson in an email, the documentary “traces the history and ideas of Thatcherism — and the creeping Socialist nightmare it was a reaction against. “US readers may not realise just how Socialist the UK was in the late 70s,

From Gail Heriot, professor of law at the University of San Diego and a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Affirmative Action Backfires”: Three years ago, UCLA law professor Richard Sander published an explosive, fact-based study of the consequences of affirmative action in American law schools in the Stanford Law Review. Most of his findings were grim, and they caused dismay among many of the champions of affirmative

that if you’ve been cleared for weekends, you’re still invited. I’m up to my everything in stuff to do, and the more of us there are, the more stuff we cover. I don’t care. Fuck you. Your worst stuff is better than my best. Asshole. Bite me, please.

From Beldar, Lurch has run out of time for bringing suit against the Swift Vet guys for defamation of (ahem) character: Seriously, though, Senator, some folks might draw the inference that rather than your having just forgotten the one-year anniversary of the publication of Unfit for Command — oopsies! — you’re instead desperately afraid to ever face cross-examination under oath, or [to face] document subpoenas of yourself and your hagiographer

Happyfeet outlines the issue over at the pub — taking his cue from Christopher Taylor. I say yes. Others say no. And those who haven’t yet commented on this — well, I question their patriotism.

I got to see a friend from grade school while I was home. Bennet went to Dixon Elementary with me and with Bob Schwoch. We remained friends through high school. His father was a physician, and his mother an ex-model maniac, who physically abused Bennet and his little brother, Bevan, now deceased. When I demonstrated the lacerations to my folks, they agreed to have Bennet live with us, and we