More info on the upcoming Catch Wrestling Seminar (and protein wisdom readers retreat, if people show any interest in such a thing, outside mere idle talk), including a word from Tony Cecchine, here. You can reserve a spot by ordering here (Chicago Weekend Seminar). Limited to twenty spots. (For the actual seminar; if you come to meet other PW folks, no limit. Those of you who sign up for the

The Choice Nazis in Congress are at making sure that DC parents don’t have the same kinds of choices that the Obama family does, by stipulating that federal funds for the DC voucher program will have to be “reautorized” before they can be disbursed: CONGRESSIONAL Democrats want to mandate that the District’s unique school voucher program be reauthorized before more federal money can be allocated for it. It is a

Via Don Surber, an AP fact-checking of Obama’s speech which you should read in full, because it’s actually pretty good. At the same time, VDH makes a few observations that I’ve been hammering on, and that more people ought to start hammering on, as well: 3) Can we ask politicians to give back monies received from now failed like entities like Countrywide? It is said that those who cashed out

blue scrotumy day! I can see clearly now my job is gone . . . Actually, comparatively speaking, this is a pretty minor infraction on this guy’s part. What he should have done is stonewalled and lied for a long time, and let them do an internal investigation, and they would have demoted/transferred him for awhile and then brought him back.

Talking about Media Malpractice. Ziegler’s follow-up post at Big Hollywood. Gibbs: Obama’s speech to be Rubenesque. This is becoming a pattern. If there’s a Super Bowl, there has to be an Obama ad. He’s going to interrupt your viewing of Heroes. Preempt “Rudolph”. Whatever. What kind of weenie gets on TV on Mardi Gras to give a “sober” speech? A not as Rubenesque and not all safe for work celebration

Hahahahahahaha! via Dan Riehl, this seems to be the videographer’s MySpace page. A sample: I’m a revolutionary, organizer for Students for Democratic Society, SigEp, Cuban, Italian, Polish, Lebanese, a pianist, a singer, an actor, a filmmaker. I go to Muhlenberg College in Allentown. I’m studying Political Economy and Film Studies… suze at Villainous Company comments. Related: Coward Rupert Murdoch blows opportunity for frank national discussion of race baiting in America.

Hunting, traditionally done by men, required a “co-ordinating” ability to track animals accurately while on the move. A “categorical” spatial awareness was better suited to foraging for fruit, roots or berries, a job mainly carried out by women. “Women tend to be more aware than men of objects around them, including those that seem irrelevant to the current task, whereas men out-perform women in navigation tasks,” the scientists told PNAS.

Shirwa Ahmed, the first known suicide bomber with U.S. citizenship, apparently was indoctrinated in Minnesota. FBI Director Robert Mueller said Monday in Washington, D.C., that a Somali-American man from Minnesota who was one of several suicide bombers in a terrorist attack in Somalia had apparently been indoctrinated into his extremist beliefs while living in Minneapolis. The FBI director, who spoke at a meeting of the Council on Foreign Relations, declined

In response to a request for fundamental decency, I put both pics beneath the fold. NSFW. NSFBreakfast.

From Sean Penn’s Academy lecture: I think that it is a good time for those who voted for the ban against gay marriage to sit and reflect, and anticipate their great shame, and the shame in their grandchildren’s eyes if they continue that way of support. We’ve got to have equal rights for everyone. And there are these last 2 things. I’m very, very proud to live in a country