An excerpt from Amy Alkon’s piece at PJMedia: Jennifer Spenner for the Saginaw News and Kathy Barks Hoffman for the AP wrote about a Michigan man who recently challenged being forced to pay child support for his girlfriend’s baby — despite what he alleges were her assurances that she couldn’t get pregnant because of a medical condition, and her knowledge that he didn’t want a child. He made the point

Canadian bacon salmon eggs (tie) spinach / Benjamin Disraeli’s thieving opportunism in acquiring the Suez canal from indebted Egyptian leader Ismail (1875) ground beef (tie) British colonial rule in Ireland and India, as analyzed by Marx in Das Capital; Lenin, Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism (1916); anchovies ham and pineapple meatballs The McKinley Tariff (1890) (tie) US in Iraq under George W. Bush; southwestern chicken

…Well, what was left of it, anyway. Up next for the once proud Germans? A Toureg hybrid, a Mercedes Benz that runs on Rauchbrau, and a German Army that, when it next marches into Poland, will literally be asked to march the entire way in uniforms made from hemp fiber. And the V2 rocket? Propelled by a giant air pump and, upon impact, releases millions of superballs (all of which

Kos lands gig at Newsweek. Evidently, belching out “screw ’em” when American contractors are torched, torn limb from limb, and strung up from a bridge, doesn’t carry quite the same stigma as it used to. Nor, evidently, does organizing a top down, orchestrated talking points campaign (codeword: “Townhouse”) designed to “unify the narrative” on left-leaning blogs (while simultaneously starving negative stories of oxygen, and demonizing those who stray from the

me: “So I hear they’ve got that chimp stuffed and stored here somewheres. Can we see him?” YAF tour guide: “Chimp?” me: “Yeah. The monkey Reagan starred with in Bedtime for Bonzo. Rumor has it he’s kept in a secret chamber, along with the uniform Dutch wore when he played Grover Cleveland Alexander.” YAF tour guide: “There’s no stuffed monkey here.” me: “Well, that’s what Reagan told the Soviets, sure.

Abashed Firefighter Convicted for Showing Penis to Flirtatious Nude Sunbather (the penis was his own) People Votes Matt Damon Sexiest Man (Alive) I guess he’s cute in an Eddie Munster kind of way.  He was pretty good in Team America, too. Tsk.  So gauche.

From the Associated Press, one of the world’s most respected and trusted media institutions: Hilton Tries to Help Drunken Elephants By WASBIR HUSSAIN – 11 hours ago GAUHATI, India (AP) — With Rwanda off her charity calendar, Paris Hilton has turned her attention to the plight of … drunken elephants in India. “The elephants get drunk all the time. It is becoming really dangerous. We need to stop making alcohol

From the Daily Mail, “Boy George is charged after ‘chaining male escort to a wall’”: Boy George has been charged with false imprisonment after allegedly chaining a male escort to a wall at his London flat. Police said today that the 47-year-old singer and DJ has been ordered to appear before Thames magistrates next week. He reported to a police station yesterday and was released on bail. Auden Karlsen, 28,

Wally Gator. There has never been a greater operator in the swamp. (Sorry, Jeff. Wanted to be the first to post this)

Glenn Reynolds, writing in the Northwestern University Law Review: Vice Presidents have increasingly been used as resources in the present […] This growing involvement of Vice Presidents in the executive department has been generally seen as a good thing, as it allows someone deemed by the electorate competent enough to become President to put his talents to work for the country, rather than having them languish while the Vice President