From Patterico’s fave, the L.A. Times: Judge calls California’s lethal-injection procedure ‘intolerable’ Intolerable?  It’s lethal. Oh, and since Evan Bayh has announced that he’s not going to make a run for the presidency in 2008, I thought that as a courtesy to all of you I’d do the same.  I will not run, and if nominated, will not serve “If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not

Received this email just moments ago from the New Republic’s Franklin Foer: Dear Reader, Dick Cheney’s daughter is an open lesbian-and now she is pregnant. Her presence would seem to pose a problem for conservatives. How can they decry gay unions and then fail to decry Mary Cheney’s lifestyle? In this week’s cover story Andrew Sullivan explores the conundrum represented by Mary Cheney and then dissects the conservative reaction to

refuses debate, because there is no debate. Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor “knows nothing about the situation.” Carter, author of a new book advocating “peace not apartheid” in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz. “I don’t want to have a

Legislators Vote for Gay Unions in N.J.

Wash. man found dead, rats eating body

In what can only be described as a budding marketing bonanza for companies that service the porn industry, it may be possible in the future to cure your constipation and tighten up your sphincter at the same time.  Italian researchers at University Hospital Agostino Gemelli, Rome are investigating the utility of ultrasound-guided local injections of Botox to relieve constipation in 24 sufferers. As someone who has seen a couple of

Well, well, well.  It seems that the accuser in the Duke rape case has given birth.  The party at the center of the controversy happened almost to the day nine months ago.  A defense attorney tells the local CBS station that when the accuser was taken to the hospital after the party, tests showed the woman was not pregnant and she was given a contraceptive commonly known as the “morning

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is a bit like iodine.  My friend Frank Pulley sends this joke: Bono, the lead singer of the band U2 is famous throughout the entertainment industry for being more than just a little self-righteous. He was playing a U2 concert in Glasgow, Scotland when he asked the audience for total quiet. Then in the silence, he started to slowly clap his hands … once every few seconds. Holding the audience