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November 19, 2010

It's Friday, Jeff, and we thought that given the new site modifications, perhaps you could put in a word —

Well, you all thought wrong. Not only will the little bastard not dance — but he’s refusing even to get up out of the Barcalounger until (and I’m paraphrasing here) someone explains to him why it’s perfectly fine to get your squeakhole bleached, but get caught one time watching “Night Rider” while squatting on a traffic cone, and suddenly the invitations to poker night with the fellas dry right up.

"IPCC Official: 'Climate Policy Is Redistributing The World's Wealth'"

You don’t say! And here I thought they actually believed that exhalation / plant food is a pollutant. Okay, not really. But I’m an asshole. What’s your excuse?

"Exclusive Excerpts From New Black Panther Case Investigation Report"

“The U.S. Commission on Civil Rights is set to consider a draft report of its investigation tomorrow. Some details of the report have been leaked to PJM”: This case was unique in one vital aspect almost from its beginning — the existence of a visual recording of the New Black Panthers in their paramilitary, fascist-style uniforms, one holding a night stick, blocking the entrance to a polling place. That kind

"TSA Makes Cancer Victim Remove Prosthetic Breast"

But hey. We have to do something, right? And complaining about stuff like this is essentially telling terrorists, just pack your explosives in that gaping cavity in your chest where you had the lumpy malignancy scraped out. Don’t be so fucking prudish, people. We’re protecting freedom!** **** update: And so on! (thanks to zamoose)

Speaking of giving government broader powers…

Even as the Heritage Foundation fights the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act, Barton Hinkle of the Richmond Times Dispatch suggests that, on the issue of marijuana legalization (drawing on Raich), Heritage argued more like big government Republicans than small government conservatives. In urging the defeat of California’s legalization initiative, Hinkle notes, Heritage “tried to shoot down the argument from federalism” (among other things): “Marijuana advocates claim that federal enforcement of

"Does The FDA Really Need More Power?"

That’s a rhetorical question, clearly: […] Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D–NV) wants to grant the FDA even more unaccountable administrative authority. Specifically, he is pushing for passage of the FDA Food Safety Modernization Act in the lame duck session that opened this week. Representative John Dingell (D–MI), who sponsored the companion bill approved by Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-CA) House in July 2009, hailed the proposed act as “a monumental