I really can’t tell you much about where I am exactly, because I was pretty fucked up when I got here, and I kinda kept passing out during orientation. If I had to guess, though, I’d say I’m in Heaven. Because already I was able to score several ounces of crystalized Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, and I didn’t even have to blow Carrot Top under the table at Nate ‘n Al’s to do

cutting off your nose to spite your face.

John Bolton, on the Obama administration’s relationship with Israel, WSJ: We are moving inexorably toward, and perhaps have now reached, an Israeli crisis with Mr. Obama. Americans must realize that allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons is empowering an existential threat to the Israeli state, to Arab governments in the region that are friendly to the U.S., and to long-term global peace and security. Mr. Netanyahu must realize he has

Okay, now this is clever:

This: This two-votes-in-one gambit is a brazen affront to the plain language of the Constitution, which is intended to require democratic accountability. Article 1, Section 7 of the Constitution says that in order for a “Bill” to “become a Law,” it “shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate.” This is why the House and Senate typically have a conference committee to work out differences in what each

Byron York: If you have any doubt that the Democratic leadership of the House views passing the current health care reform bill as the beginning, not the end, of the process of creating a national government health care system, just note what Speaker Nancy Pelosi told a group of bloggers on Monday. “My biggest fight has been between those who wanted to do something incremental and those who wanted to

In contrast to the hickish tea partiers and “all their blather,” here’s how the the more politically sophisticated among us operate to effectively advance a cultural conversation. Note the clever use of visual / iconic adianoeta, which in this instance works to gently nudge readers toward an unspoken (yet somehow inevitable) association between reactionary movements peopled by Jesus-pimping proto-Klansman, and the social practice, enjoyed by many in the gay community,

“Don’t ask me, I don’t give a damn / Next stop is Vietnam, uh, say, the King Sooper’s parking lot off Route 16…?” Michael Barone on the Tea Party movement: Like the antiwar activists of 40 years ago, the tea partiers include many good citizens moved to political involvement because of intellectually serious concerns about public policy. Similarly, they include a much smaller number of cranks, conspiracy theorists and congenital

Because nothing says “equality” and “fairness” in the field of telecommunications quite so much as handing out managerial positions based on, you know, proof of cooter: Deutsche Telekom AG said Monday it will introduce a quota for female managers, with a target to fill 30% of upper and middle management jobs with women by the end of 2015. That would compare with only 13% in 2008, the company said. Deutsche

     “Excuse me, sir,” an old man smelling of bacon and (perhaps) haddock, “but you wouldn’t happen to have some spare change, would you?”      He’d stumbled toward me from an alley alongside the Cricket store. His beard was the color of dishwater, and some sort of grease kept it matted down in patches like worn carpet. “No, man. Sorry. Who carries change anymore?” I tried looking him in the eyes —