A reader writes: Do you think Patterico has written enough about your having had the audacity — shallow, uncritical, anti-intellectual lefty-hating GOP cheerleader and overemotional failed academic that you are — to suggest that his calling Barack Obama a ‘good man’ was rather an unfriendly slight on ‘good’? Yes. But sadly. that doesn’t mean he’ll ever stop.

Outlaw tip of the day: if life gives you lemons, find out where life hangs out when it ain’t handing out sour citrus fruits, wait for it to get drunk on Beam and Coke, then jump it, drag it behind a dumpster, and take whatever cash or drugs it happens to have on it. Oh — and you might want to fuck up its chopper, too, just to send a

The WaPo admits to “An Obama Tilt in Campaign Coverage” — but even in so doing misses the importance of their own admission. Notes David Harsanyi: Now, I believe the mass media was solidly in the tank for Obama, but I also believe it’s difficult to judge bias by sorting out stories — a negative one here for McCain a positive one for Obama. One candidate may warrant more negative

For every one hour of community service work I give to Obama, I’ve decided to spend two hours tagging Whole Foods stores with ornate graffiti describing, in lurid detail, the secret life of Herbie, the closeted gay arugula. — Then I’ll use up the rest of my hours standing guard with a crossbow, making sure no fascist right wing homophobic bluenose tries removing said graffiti, under penalty of grisly death.

From the LAT blog: In a hasty and wise bit of damage control, President-elect Barack Obama quickly telephoned former First Lady Nancy Reagan this afternoon to apologize for “a careless and offhanded remark” he made about her this morning during his first post-election news conference. Obama was asked how he was preparing to take over the White House, what books he’s reading, if he’d talked to any ex-presidents. He replied:

Coming soon to a bank near you…?

I actually threw up a little bit in my mouth.

Malkin, writing at NRO: Hollywood savaged Palin. Journalists mocked her. Liberal blogs slimed her. Opponents cursed her; Photoshopped her; hacked her e-mail; hanged her in effigy,; called her bigot, Bible-thumper, and bimbo; and attacked her husband and children. But nothing Palin endured during the election season compares to the treatment she’s receiving from these backstabbing blabbermouths who worked on the same campaign she poured herself into over the last three

Sure, I know I’m supposed to break down cardboard boxes before I put them in the recycle bin. But fuck it, I took a chance. And if the truck decides it doesn’t want to pick ’em up as is, those boxes can sit there in the street until they become moldy or weather shredded — or home to a family of angry bobcats, for all I care. It ain’t like

From chapter 27, Still Life with Woodpecker: “[…] I love the trite mythos of the outlaw. I love the self-conscious romanticism of the outlaw. I love the black wardrobe of the outlaw. I love the fey smile of the outlaw. I love the tequila of the outlaw and the beans of the outlaw. I love the way respectable men sneer and say ‘outlaw.’ I love the way young women palpitate