The original Capt. Kirk is disheartened he won’t get to boldly go anywhere with his old pal Spock in the new “Star Trek” movie. While Leonard Nimoy is reprising his role as the pointy-eared Vulcan in next year’s science-fiction flick, William Shatner is not on board as Kirk. “I [ . . . ]couldn’t believe it. I’m [ . . . ] not in[. . . ] the movie at

I’m going to be working diligently behind the scenes with a couple of web savvy folks to get the site streamlined and moved to a new host. If anyone else has any experience with web design and would like to help streamline the code so that I’m not burning through bandwidth and resources, please let me know. Meantime, enjoy the guest posters — and all the entries over at the

Now that Genarlow Wilson has been freed by the Georgia Supreme Court, look for some of the same people who criticized Darleen for making a big deal about birth control being dispensed to 11 year olds to be absolutely outraged–even though he’s black. (BTW, Darleen’s human fetus baby shield cartoon is up at Malkin’s) UPDATE: From Jack and Jill Politics: Translation for Black People: “All y’all negros and negro lovers

Keep your . . . mandala Off my amygdala! No Blood, For Oil! (Duh.) F*ckhead Chic Attacked, RoPped with Iron Bars Republicans in the Shape of a Governor?

Christopher Hayes at The Nation unveils The New Right-Wing Smear Machine.  And about time, too, since the old one was held together with spit and baling wire, and was pretty grimy.  It seems he’s incensed about the propagation of some false memes that continue to circulate long after they’ve been debunked. This appears to be a right-wing phenomenon, although I seem to remember . . . I just love that

But it may not last. So smoke ’em while you got ’em.

Me: “So. Catch the game last night?” Larry Walker: “Yeah. Unfortunately.” Me: “Fugly, it was. But I’m hoping we can bounce back tonight against Schilling.” Larry Walker: “Sure, maybe. But do you mind if I ask you a question? Who are you — and what are you doing in my bedroom?” Me: “Oh, that. Well, I’m a longtime Rockies fan, first off. But to be honest, when I dropped by

— That is, when that “free speech” comes from a sawed-off Messianic Iranian mouthpiece for theocratic despots, the kind of terror-sponsoring reactionaries whose attitude toward women and gays is, to be kind, rather parochial. Whereas HATE SPEECH…well, that’s a different story entirely. And it must be stopped, even if doing so means shouting down the speaker so that he is ultimately unable to make his argument. Remember: nothing shows how

As the misconduct of The New Republic’s editors gets coverage from the Washington Post, editor Franklin Foer tries out for Dancing with the Stars: While Beauchamp “didn’t stand by his stories in that conversation, he didn’t recant his stories,” Foer said in an interview. “He obviously was under considerable duress during that conversation, with his commanding officer in the room with him.” While the discussion “was extremely frustrating and engendered

Here’s an excerpt, but read the whole thing: Documents obtained by The Examiner show, however, that MoveOn.org’s complaint to Google was part of a broader effort by the advocacy group to silence its critics through threats and intimidation and had nothing to do with preventing fraud. MoveOn.org filed its trademark complaint with Google on Sept.19 in the midst of the bitter public debate generated by the Petraeus ad. On the