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Talking back to drag-queen music 19 (cranky-d taking a failed topic to the bitter end)

Clowns make you laugh?  Seriously?  They frighten the bejeezus out of me.  Does the clown thing have anything to do with those wheels going round and round in your mind? Answer ghosted here ->“Faithfully,” Journey. Note: this song was originally sung by a man.

Liveblogging Bush’s speech as it was mentally processed by Glenn Greenwald(s)

update: You know, I’m not much for teevee, but that “You’re The One That I Want” show looks like it could be a hoot!

Greenwald Thumping Day at Ace [Dan Collins]

I think maybe this could become the newest “tag” thing among wingnut bloggers. Patterico goes deep-sea fishing for the dread pinhead shark.

Hypersonic Cruise Missile [Dan Collins]

Don’t know how I missed this.

Normally, I’d Say [Dan Collins]

they had it coming to them.  But in this instance, I’m on the side of the Yale barbershop harmony group: Members of a close-harmony group from Yale University are recovering after being ambushed and beaten up while on tour in California. Members of the a cappella Baker’s Dozen were performing at a party in San Francisco at the new year when their rendition of the “Star Spangled Banner” apparently sparked

Original Goth Chick Dies [Dan Collins]

Yvonne De Carlo, the beautiful star who played Moses’ wife in “The Ten Commandments” but achieved her greatest popularity on TV’s slapstick comedy “The Munsters,” has died. She was 84. De Carlo died of natural causes Monday at the Motion Picture & Television facility in suburban Los Angeles, longtime friend and television producer Kevin Burns said Wednesday. De Carlo, whose shapely figure helped launch her career in B-movie desert adventures

America to Blame for Worldwide Depression [Dan Collins]

Scott Burgess, who has begun posting again at The Daily Ablution, beats the living crap out of emphatically discredits Oliver James, profiled in the Telegraph: Pop psychologist Oliver James has lately been making the promotional rounds, with an eye to further hawking the pet theory he’s been expounding for a few years now; namely, that the blame for rising rates of mental illness – along with “rising levels of depression,

Surge-mantics [Karl]

Knowing our host’s interest in the use and misuse of language for political ends, an article in today’s L.A. Times caught my attention: WASHINGTON — Is it a “surge?” Is it an “escalation?” Is it harmless semantics? Is it disingenuous spin? *** What infuriates critics of the war, including many liberal Democrats, is that they see “surge” as a manipulative and deceptive word. It implies a relatively short-term increase in

School Loses “Tremendous Asset” [Dan Collins]

“Chesterfield lost a tremendous asset today,” he said. Murmer, a teacher at Monacan High School, was suspended in December after objections were raised about his private abstract artwork, much of which includes smearing his posterior and genitals with paint and pressing them against canvas.

My first brief conversation with the severe ear infection I developed last evening, which has my entire left ear completely stopped up

me: “Cut it out, would you?  It hurts.” severe ear infection: “Got any antibiotics?” me: “Not here in the house, no.” severe ear infection: “Then bite me.”