oven stoves and heat walls

Stolen from Cowbird

what features NO LIZ STEPHENS! OUTRAGE! Todd has all the local newsclips that show people saying O!s going to meet with Blago and has met with Blago. Also, the return of teh Jackson 5. Eeeeeevil conservatives rub hands with glee over Blago revelations, cackle. Wrench thrown into Holder confirmation hearings by . . . Arlen Specter?

at PJM. A small smackerel: BC: Why do we as a society automatically extend empathy and compassion to criminals rather than the victims of their crimes? There’s a phrase that you use in this context: “a preference for barbarism.” Why do our intellectuals rally to the cause of miscreants rather than that of good, honest citizens? Dr. Dalrymple: Intellectuals need to say things that are not immediately obvious or do

Lots of people have mentioned this amazing story (BJTexas, for example, who emailed it to me), but I think Mike Hendrix says it best.

Is the headline to Daniel Politi’s round-up of newspaper coverage of Blagogate.  All I have to say is that Illini are pretty damn ‘incurious,’ considering “that Blagojevich is the fifth Illinois governor to be charged with criminal conduct over the last 50 years.” Mind you, this is the site that gave ought-to-be disgraced Ex-Prosecutor-Turned-Governor Eliot Spitzer a column.  It’s going to be interesting to see what Spitzer has to say

WIFE: What would you do if I died? Would you get married again? HUSBAND: Definitely not! WIFE: Why not – don’t you like being married? HUSBAND: Of course I do. WIFE: Then why wouldn’t you remarry? HUSBAND: Okay, I’d get married again. WIFE: You would? (With a hurtful look on her face). HUSBAND: (Makes audible groan). WIFE: Would you live in our house? HUSBAND: Sure, it’s a great house. WIFE:

“Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, Illinois has voted for change,” [Blagojevich] told a crowd at his victory party on election night in 2002. Jake Tapper: On the Chicago TV show “Public Affairs with Jeff Berkowitz” on June 27, 2002, state Sen. Obama said, “Right now, my main focus is to make sure that we elect Rod Blagojevich as Governor, we…” “You working hard for Rod?” interrupted Berkowitz. “You betcha,” said Obama.