1.  Yes, I too thought that guest posters would only be posting on the weekends (unless otherwise engaged by yours truly).  Turns out we were both wrong. 2.  Site cryptography:  when a certain Dasypus novemcinctus reappears for his regular Friday dither, the knowing protein wisdom reader will be free to conclude from that reprise that a certain legal matter that has kept the randy armored rat otherwise engaged (he has

employs dagger-like incisors, cavernous jaws, to extract large hunk of flesh from Jimmah’s scrawny hide, not very surgically. If blood sport is hardly your thing in the morning, you may wish instead to check this out: Edwards charges $55,000 to speak to UC Davis students about poverty I suppose you might be able to make this stuff up, but people would say you were daft.  Personally, I can’t say I’ve

Not that I’ve given it a whole lot of thought, but my first reaction is to say no, of course not, why would there be—particularly if it leads to some sort of consensual group nudity?  But—and more to the point—why do you even ask? **** update:  GET OFF MY LAWN!

So asks Jacob Sullum over the House Agricultural Committee’s Eminent Domain Reform Bill: Yesterday the House Agriculture Committee approved a bill that would deny federal economic development grants to projects that involve the use of eminent domain “to obtain property for private commercial development.” Unlike the Bond Amendment, which Congress approved in 2005, this bill, known as the Strengthening the Ownership of Private Property Act of 2007, seems to have

“What those bourgeois puppets braying for my blood forget is that it is people like us and our supporters— those who stand in ethnic and epistemological opposition to the Land Owning class that ‘founded’ this country on rationalist arrogance and an ‘Enlightenment’ presumptuousness that left no space for the artful grace of magical thinking, thanks to a world view that privileged process over result, —against whom our detractors define themselves

And you thought Jimmy Carter was a dust-burping relic: An Indonesian fisherman hooked a rare coelacanth, a species once thought as extinct as dinosaurs, and briefly kept the “living fossil” alive in a quarantined pool. Justinus Lahama caught the four-foot, 110-pound fish early Saturday off Sulawesi island near Bunaken National Marine Park […]. The fish died 17 hours later, an extraordinary survival time, marine biologist Lucky Lumingas said Sunday. “The

Good start.  Now if they could just find a way to get him into a home for the ubiquitously tedious: In a biting rebuke to Carter calling the Bush administration the “worst in history,” the White House on Sunday dismissed Carter as “increasingly irrelevant.” Carter was quoted Saturday in the Arkansas Democrat Gazette as saying “I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this

From the CNN wire: As part of its search for three missing American soldiers, the U.S. military was draining a canal Sunday after receiving a tip from local Shiite Iraqis that they saw two heads floating in the water, U.S. military officials told CNN. So far, the search of the canal, which leads from the Euphrates River to the village of Janabi, has turned up nothing of interest to the

but to bury him. Glenn Reynolds has had enough: Various people in and out of the blogosphere have wondered exactly when, how, and why Andrew lost it. But lost it he has. I’m not as kind as Glenn, so for me it was when he started linking Greenwald(s) approvingly.  Please feel free to note when it was you’d come to the conclusion that it had been lost by him.

Not that I’m a big Gonzo fan, but Pillage Idiot has a post up about the latest lame-ass she-nanny-gans of Code Pink. Stoo Pid sends me this: Noted SquishyCon Hugh Hewitt is reading the Amnesty Bill, and even he is unhappy with it. Of course, his problem isn’t with the amnesty, he claims to be troubled by the security aspects of it. Toss in this little tidbit, and it appears