Clue: It’s a quagmire. Question: What is it? Answer(s) below.
Terry Eagleton’s Epistemological Trainwreck [Dan Collins]
David Thompson takes a look at some of Terry Eagleton’s latest intellectual stylings at al-Graun. It turns out that people who criticize multiculturalism consider it a threat because it creates fissures in the monolith of power, which is necessary to maintain and justify an unequal distribution of resources.
Preaching to the Choir [Dan Collins]
Guantanamo Detainees Lose Appeal Shorter Collins: Bwahahahahaha!
“‘Tell the American people we need the U.S. Army here‘“
Ever Chimpy McSurgeDivider’s obedient mouthpiece, Bill Ardolino of INDC Journal posts a so-called “interview” with the Iraqi Army “soldiers” he “worked with” in Fallujah. And—surprise, surprise!—these “soldiers” (Ardolino calls them “Jundi,” the pretentious twit) claim to desire a continued US Army presence in Iraq in order to help stabilize the security situation. …Uh huh. Like we didn’t see that bit of CIA manipulation coming, you scaly-flanked war salmon. Sorry, pal.
protein wisdom’s top 9 numbers from 1 to 9 (revised after I caught the number 8 trying to pinch some of my ‘shrooms)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 8
the “an unauthorized addendum to ‘50 Ways to Leave Your Lover‘“ post
51. Leave her a nice note explaining how you don’t think the relationship is going where you’d hoped it would, and that—rather than artificially extending a moribund romance—it is perhaps best to end things now, while you and she can still part as friends. Ken.
There used to be a post here, 2
Remember? Right freakin’ here! Seriously. Sometimes I think I’m losing my mind—and then I remember to pop a Klonopin, and all is just groovy with the world again. It’s one of the benefits of living in a civilized society. And not in, say, some Arkansas trailer park.
Hard-to-Counter Assertion in Religious Debate [Dan Collins]
One virtually unanswerable way to respond to others’ foul pronouncements with respect to your faith is to run them over with your cab, for nothing represents the goodness of God so well as a 4-barrel 455 V-8 careening toward a fare. It may not win you style points, but it is very effective, and if you are a member of a minority, it’s very unlikely that it will be regarded

Peter Fonda lays odds on Senator Hillary Clinton’s chances of becomiing the first female President of the United States
Fonda: “Well, to be honest with you, man, while I totally dig the, like, enormous leeway of her message, her voice always makes my balls kinda climb up inside my abdomen. And you gotta admit, four years is an awful long time to have to walk around with your balls inside your abdomen, just so you can prove to people that you’re hip to the idea of a lady president.