BARRY: It’s true! It’s true! The crown has made it clear. The climate must be perfect all the year. A law was made a distant moon ago here: July and August cannot be too hot. And there’s a legal limit to the snow here In Bamalot. The winter is forbidden till December And exits March the second on the dot. By order, summer lingers through September In Bamalot. Bamalot! Bamalot!

oatmeal: “Here’s something I bet you didn’t know: the Cream of Wheat guy — in addition to helping sex up farina for the masses — was a damn fine jazz musician. “I mean, queer as a chocolate cupcake, sure. Used to like to dress up like Ella Fitzgerald and pee sitting down, in fact. But man, could he ever blow! ” — On the sax, that is. And before you

A cell phone image of one of the heads viewed by The Associated Press was inconclusive. Headline of the Day: Suspect in Murder of UK Model Regrets Sex With Dead Body in Driveway A beyonder shade of pale. The link between alcohol and aggression is well known. What’s not so clear is just why drunks get belligerent. What is it about the brain-on-alcohol that makes fighting seem like a good

Dark Lord Karl Rove notes that Sen. Barack Obama’s post-Wisconsin, policy-oriented speech provides an entree for his Democratic and Republican rivals to attack: Until now, Mr. Obama has been making appeals to the center, saying, for example, that we are not red or blue states, but the United States. But in his Houston speech, he used the opportunity of 45 (long) minutes on national TV to advocate a distinctly non-centrist,

Given our esteeemed host’s past plugs for Matt Welch’s Reason piece on John McCain, I note that Welch discusses the issues surrounding McCain’s “Maverick” image and underlying philosophy, the Reform Institute, and more with Will Wilkinson on bloggingheads.tv.  It apparently was posted on February 4th, so they do not discuss his sex life. Although critical of McCain’s general political impulses (as one would expect from Welch and Wilkinson), Welch notes how

The American Leadership Project, a new “independent expenditure” group set up to help Sen. Hillary Clinton, released its first ad, “Blueprint” which is largely positive and focused on middle-class issues, delivering a backhanded jab at Sen. Barack Obama only in its introductory line. The campaign also plans to go after Obama on the issue of who is better qualified to be commander-in-chief. This is basically what I have suggested the Clinton campaign should have

Just so that people know that this site has more than one person posting. Really. Check some of the previous pages, you’ll see. I wouldn’t make this stuff up.

may have [tongued my junk]. That evening at Zeta Psi we had room-to-room tails. That meant that in every room, a different alcoholic beverage was being served. I remember my friend Walter (Waltered States) had a concoction that he called “Jersey Devils,” which was surprisingly good. He was totally bummed when he awoke after his first passing out, to discover that his top of the line Sennheiser headphones had disappeared.

“Is this combustible? I mean, given that McCain hardly beat Huckabee by more than Obama beat Hillary?” I’d like to apologize. It’s been a very busy evening, story-wise, and I’ve been compelled to help my daughter with her math and one of my sons with a report on Dante Alighieri, so I haven’t been able to do much. Not to [tongue my own junk], or anything: Bonus TNR Angle on

with a human face (h/t Memeorandum): Created 60 years ago as a cornerstone of the British welfare state, the National Health Service is devoted to the principle of free medical care for everyone. But recently it has been wrestling with a problem its founders never anticipated: how to handle patients with complex illnesses who want to pay for parts of their treatment while receiving the rest free from the health