of ABBA, despite their fundamental ridiculousness.

A conundrum to make leftist heads explode: A Jefferson County Jail inmate has quite a tale to tell about how he got there. The nude man claimed to be Jesus Christ and George Bush when sheriff’s deputies shot him with a stun gun after he ignored their commands. Sad news: Silvermimmel split More Alien Cow Abductions

From Insty Mac comes this tale of populist ethics: In 2004, after a tip from a whistle blower who was later fired, the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight (Ofheo) issued a report finding that the government-sponsored entity Fannie Mae had engaged in Enron-like accounting machinations that allowed Fannie to overstate its earnings and underestimate the risk the company faced. The accounting wizardry Fannie engaged in was designed so that

John McLaughlin getting off lightly? “Does it frost Jackson, Jesse Jackson, that…an Oreo should be the beneficiary of the long civil rights struggle which Jesse Jackson spent his lifetime fighting for?” McLaughlin asked his panelists. Hahahaha! You know what you are, cracker? Double-stuffed. Who’s frosted now, motherfucker? CNN, ever helpful with the background, adds: The term “Oreo” is often viewed as a derogatory term toward some African-Americans who appear not

keeps the cameras rolling as fierce Taliban freedom fighters murder two women. Oh, the pornography! Meanwhile, OMG, John McCain’s wife hates St. Louis! Cindy McCain, wife of Republican presidential candidate John McCain, is set to get a huge payout from the sale of Anheuser-Busch Cos., brewer of Budweiser and hundreds of other brands, to Belgian beverage giant InBev NV. You just know she must be the Worst Person in the

Appearing before La Raza (“The Race”) today, John McCain finally decided to own his immigration stance and went after Barack Obama’s immigration votes: I spoke recently at both the NALEO and LULAC conferences, as did Senator Obama. I did not use those occasions to criticize Senator Obama. I would prefer not to do so today. But he suggested in his speeches there and here, that I turned my back on

The Politico reports on the efforts of Ron Fournier, head of The Associated Press’s Washington bureau, to encourage first-person writing and emotive language in AP’s wire copy.  Fournier cites the media coverage of Hurricane Katrina as inspiration: A dispatch Fournier filed in 2005 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina began: “The Iraqi insurgency is in its last throes. The economy is booming. Anybody who leaks a CIA agent’s identity will

the repulclusive, closed society so often in the news: While it is true that the ratio of Obama-to-McCain bumper stickers in West L.A. is about 250-to-1, there are untold closet Republicans in the entertainment industry who dare not advertise their beliefs in movie studio parking lots. (Unfortunately, car keying is a tactic wielded liberally by the self-described “tolerant.”) But in this land of superficiality and augmented assets, the inconvenient truth