in Nationals effin Stadium, man. Whatever happened to separation of church and state?

Still foaming over the ABC News “Freak Show” Democratic debate in Philly, Excitable Andy repeats the obvious: “No questions on the environment, none on terror, none on interrogation, none on torture, none on education, none on spending, none on healthcare, none on Iran … but four separate questions in the first hour about a lapel-pin, Bitter-gate, Wright-gate and Ayers. I’m all for keeping candidates on their toes. But this was ridiculous.

is tingling! Please list your super-secret hater code words and their super-secret definitions in comments.

I am so disillusioned with celebrities, political or otherwise.  It turns out that Hillary Clinton wasn’t dodging bullets in Bosnia?  John Kerry didn’t spend Christmas in Cambodia?  The McCains’ website family recipes are lifted from The Food Network (I mean, this is the guy we’re going to have as Head Chef-in-Chief)?  Ward Churchill’s not a Native American?  And now this? Akon’s ad nauseum claims about his criminal career and resulting

When I saw the “Absolute Obama” cartoon at STACLU and MM, I immediately thought of a comment Carin made here at PW recently (but which I am at a loss to find now), resulting in a map of the alt-historical North American Disunion: After all, the NAFTA flap has done nothing to diminish Barack Obama’s popularity with Canadian voters.  A President Obama might like to have Mexifornia in the fold, but he

I’m pretty much screwed. People who have more than two alcoholic drinks a day develop Alzheimer’s disease five years earlier than those who do not drink, a comprehensive study linking the condition to lifestyle has found. Those who smoke are affected by the illness two years earlier than non-smokers, while those who smoke and drink are likely to hasten the onset of the disease by seven years.

The Andrew Sullivan Freak-Out Advisory System should be elevated by tonight’s Democratic debate on ABC, probably to “Nauseated” or “Appalled.”  Is Excitable Andy gobsmacked? Yes, he is! 9.20 pm. Obama’s convoluted capital gains tax answer was a brutal reminder to folks like me that he is indeed a redistributionist, and someone who seems to see the tax system as a way to decide what people “deserve” to have and keep.

At The Examiner, Josh McIntire has a grotesquely hilarious post, entitled, “I Miss Ugly Mommy“. Just in time for Mother’s Day, a plastic surgeon is releasing a book about how to tell your kids about mommy’s enhancements.  Where, I ask, was this book when Chastity Bono was a little girl?  I mean can’t you just see Cher reading this to her at bedtime? What’s next – “New Daddy’s Money Is

Can’t you smell that smell? Ooh, that smell— The smell of commodified anti-capitalism! “[T]here is a tacit anti-consumerism just to the smell of patchouli.” —Zoe Williams It smells like victory. Man. David Thompson has a wickedly funny post up about Guardianista Zoe Williams’ disappointed take on the radical chic commercialism of the Glastonbury Mud Music Festival, complete with photos of the festivities.

My power of invention is brutally impoverished by comparison: When H. R. 2786, the Native American Housing and Assistance and Self-Determination Reauthorization Act of 2007, was considered and passed the House Members of the Congressional Black Caucus and others insisted that the bill include a provision that would prevent the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma from receiving any benefits or funding under the bill until the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is