I take Lipitor, sure. But that doesn’t mean I’m just going to throw away the grapefruit spoons — particularly when, in a pinch, I’m almost certain I could use the things to remove a boil or drain an abscess or some such.

Once again, I didn’t make TV Guide’s Sexiest Stars list. Because they are bitter and clingy. On the other hand, I fixed the link.

Although the headlines this week were dominated by the Clinton Obama cage match in Pennsylvania and its aftermath, the undercard may have been the number of pundits wondering whether this was the best week John McCain was going to have in this campaign. New York magazine ran a lengthy piece from John Heilemann wondering whether McCain really was this year’s Bob Dole and listing McCain’s vulnerabilities in a general election,

Karl Rove reflects on Obama and fleshes out the picture with commentary that seems similar to what I was saying yesterday about Think Progress.  In his meta-commentary, Ed Morrissey calls him the Jon Stewart candidate: Unfortunately for Obama and the Democrats who have carried him so close to the finish line, that “fierce urgency of now” is nothing more than a soundbite for a legislator who doesn’t legislate, an agent

From Doc Weasel:Behold!  The Protein Wisdom Flaming Armadillo of Death!!! UPDATE: Flaming Dillo Boutique–just in time for Mother’s Day

At Think Progress, Matt tosses out again the fact that McCain stated at one point that he was glad to have Hagee’s endorsement.  The occasion for this latest attempt to get traction for the story is Dennis Prager interviewing this moron about his comments that the flooding of New Orleans was an expression of God’s wrath against the city, because a Gay rally was scheduled for the subsequent Monday.  The dolt

Bernardine Dohrn.  Flatter than just-ironed Nebraska.  Still raging against the machine. Friggin’ nibblet.  

So wish him a happy one.

By which I mean the House Republican Conference: Hey there … since you were kind enough to post our previous House GOP Conference web video on FISA, “America at Risk,” I wanted to be sure you saw our latest … this one on skyrocketing gas prices. Remember when Speaker Pelosi promised a commonsense plan” to lower gas prices in the 2006 campaign? We do. The second anniversary of that promise is …. TOMORROW. And now gas is more than 50 percent

RWS recommends this book for my son, who she believes would, like, totally dig it. Unfortunately, ever since I bought him The Magical Mushroom Pizza Ride to the Land of the Swirly Whirly Naked Girlies (complete with blotter paper inserts of mischievous looking clowns), he hasn’t been interested in much else. Well, except Tetris. And of course, argyle.