had it not been so patently racist. Sexism rears its ugly head: “I’ve never heard of one woman beating another woman to death,” said Hayes, hired by Linda’s ex-husband, Seymour, to represent the family. “You know how much work it is to beat somebody to death? Women shoot them, they stab them, they throw them in front of cars. I’ve never seen this – and I was in Homicide!”

Mr. Charming. Spain’s King Juan Carlos told Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday to “shut up” during closing speeches by leaders from the Latin world that brought the Ibero-American summit to an acrimonious end. “Why don’t you shut up?” the king shouted at Chavez, pointing a finger at the president when he tried to interrupt a speech by Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero. Zapatero was in the middle

X-Ray of Lakshmi Before Parasitic Twin Removed: DaVinci code.

The Tao closed almost 300 points lower for the week ending Friday, as investors shifted their orgones towards International Happiness Funds. Reality futures were down 4.2 percent as municipalities scramble to reassess properties before declining valuations take a bite out of their projected property tax collections.

Miami Herald: Just give him the keys, and nobody gets hurt The rapid escalation of the U.S. anti-immigration hysteria — fueled by ratings-hungry cable-television hotheads and leading Republican presidential hopefuls — is a dangerous trend: It may lead to a Hispanic intifada that may rock this nation in the not-so-distant future. Remember the Palestinian intifada of the early 1990s, when thousands of frustrated young Palestinians took to the streets and

Norman Mailer, inventor of the word “fug,” dead at 84.

Lefty blogs howl. Because of teh hypocrisy? Under the title, “Why Is This Man Smiling?” one of them begins this way: Just yesterday, Bush said (two posts back), “I’ve committed our troops into harm’s way twice, and it’s not a pleasant experience because I understand the consequences firsthand.” Today he went to an army medical facility and met some people who actually do understand the consequences of his decisions firsthand.

Liberrocky, interested in what UN sources have been contributing to wikis, discovers a UN contributor altering a description of Orianna Fallaci to read “racist whore.”

RTO Trainer: Positive News from Iraq: Ignore this Post!!3! SarahW: Lolinated River C: Eternal Web Conundrums, 3 Serr8d: For Dan…  (Not Safe for Wife!) Also, go check out Christopher Taylor’s excellent blog for more lolly goodness. Definitely the graphics part of this package.

With apologies to Allahpundit for the “Friday Stupid” meme: The legend lives o­n from the Chippewa o­n down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. Saturday is the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald — 729 feet-long, 75 feet in breadth, 39 feet in depth, weighing 13,632 gross tons — an ore bulk carrier with a capacity of 25,000 tons. When it was launched o­n June