Whatever nasty GI virus my son had he passed on to me. So I’ll be spending most of my time today purging my body of whatever it’s taken in over the last day or so. Not by choice, either. If I start feeling a little better or can find some time in between emergencies, I’ll try to post some things later on today. But word is, this thing sticks around

Got the York 85 up today (in reality, the one I have weighs in at 43.2#) with the right hand.  I’m getting very close on the York 90, on my way to the Blob (half of a York 100# barbell). Which used to be where you stopped.  Now, however, something like 7 people have lifted what’s being called “Blobzilla,” one half of a 130# York dumbbell. I may never make

Why, of course he does.  Just like Obama! So.  For those keeping score — or are merely interested in seeing how language changes in near-real time — “severe conservatism” now entails support for stimulus; TARP; cap-and-trade; bureaucratic preeminence over religious conscience; federal minimum wage laws pinned to inflation; the idea that the motive of capitalism is the creation of jobs; the idea that a president’s policies won’t impact gas prices;

“Crudely summarised, it goes something like this: ‘I am better than you because I pretend to feel worse.’” Spot on.  In fact, I think of it this way:  watching the left luxuriate over their various self-inflicted ethical debasements is like watching some sort of sad and surreal penis measuring contest — only, in a progressive break with testosterone-sodden patriarchal tradition, the morally-preening self-flagellists have decided to measure whose castrated stump

Arab Spring! They couldn’t have done it without you, Obama.  Congrats! #Legacy (h/t geoffB)

Jim Pethokoukis takes on the Juice Box Mafia’s reigning Arnold Rothstein. In a column for Bloomberg, Ezra Klein declares that he’s “not particularly worried about the budget deficit. In fact, of all the major problems the U.S. faces, I’m least worried about the deficit.” How can Klein be so blasé with the U.S running trillion-dollar annual deficits as far as the eye can see? First, he points out that if the Obama

As someone who has been stalked / harassed on the internet by a crazed, profane, potentially dangerous and oftentimes quite drunk former professor, I can sympathize with legislation intended to supply police some sort of recourse to stop unwanted online molestations; after all, victims of such crimes shouldn’t be forced to shut down all their emails, get new cellphones, or shutter their sites just because a trolling moron has a

— Because you’re racists. Reached for comment, several DC-area crack-peddling hookers just kinda shrugged, muttered a few platitudes about pork lo mein, then offered to blow me for $50 “or maybe 5 packs of menthols…?”   **** update:  See? I told you it was a black thing and you wouldn’t understand.  Why are you being such racists?

Up by 20% over previous accepted estimates. From the NYT: By combing through newly digitized census data from the 19th century, J. David Hacker, a demographic historian from Binghamton University in New York, has recalculated the death toll and increased it by more than 20 percent — to 750,000. The new figure is already winning acceptance from scholars. Civil War History, the journal that published Dr. Hacker’s paper, called it