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November 19, 2007

Jon Swift, Fascist [Dan Collins]

From the bestselling self-help book, Learn to Quote Like Jon Swift: Last month at the world Bridge championships in Shanghai a team of women representing the United States did something shocking when they went up to the dais to receive the Venice Cup, the award for the best women’s team. One of their members held up a hand-lettered sign that said “We Did Not Vote for Bush.” ***** The United

Got Milk? [Dan Collins]

We are the only species that drinks another person’s [?] milk, so why aren’t we drinking rat’s milk, or dog’s milk, or cat’s milk, that’s how crazy it is,” she said. However many millions it was, Sir Paul, it was worth it. Stupid cow.

The Big Picture(s): Bilal Hussein Update [Karl]

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the case of Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi stringer working for the Associated Press with a history of taking staged photographs of Islamic terrorists, who was detained by the US military as a security threat in April 2006. Today comes word that the US military plans to seek a criminal charges against Hussein in an Iraqi court and — as Michelle Malkin notes — the

Privacy, Revisited [Dan Collins]

Nothing to see here. Move along. A lawyer representing a former police officer suspected in the disappearance of his wife said Monday he does not believe his client will face charges stemming from the investigation. Speaking on NBC’s “Today” show, lawyer Joel Brodsky also criticized the media for their coverage of Drew Peterson, who resigned as a Bolingbrook police sergeant after his 23-year-old fourth wife, Stacy, vanished three weeks ago.

Prickocious? [Dan Collins]

Wha? Three boys, ages 8 and 9, were being held Monday in a detention center on charges of kidnapping and raping an 11-year-old girl near a suburban apartment complex, officials said. The alleged attack happened Thursday and the girl’s mother reported it to authorities Sunday, Acworth police Capt. Wayne Dennard said. “The victim said they were playing outdoors and the girl was forced into a wooded area where she was

Hey, Everybody! Don’t Look! [Dan Collins; updated]

Hat tip to Taranto: A bill that could make it illegal to glance at a naked neighbor is moving forward in the City Council. . . . Council Member Peter Vallone Jr. said he introduced the bill to fight back against perverts, such as people who stand at the bottom of a flight of stairs and look up women’s skirts. . . . “The drafting of the language of this

Dreadful [Dan Collins]

Hitchens: Keeping all this in mind, it nonetheless does begin to look as if Iraqis may in fact have started to recover command over their own destiny, and also as if America may have helped them to do so. The surge is only a part of this story. Quite obviously, if the Sunnis of Anbar Province had not of their own volition turned on the hideous forces of al-Qaida, then

Denounce! [Dan Collins]

Everybody’s doing it! They have no souls!

Nothing quite says “Thanksgiving is just a few short days away” more than an interview with Fred Thompson

Well, except maybe rumridden apple cider. Or cans of pumpkin pie filling clogging up the pantry. And of course, those Durkee’s onion straws in the cylindrical can. But other than that…

The “So, Jeff. Have you stopped beating your wife yet?” post (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)

Of course I have. You know as well as I do my shovel is in the shop. Like I’d risk splitting a nail. Use your heads, people!