Scene: A cube farm’s conference room.  A jowly, sixty-ish, ulcerous-looking uber-boss sits glowering at his much younger underlings, who quail in their seats at the table. Cut to the wall clock.  It’s 1:00pm, time for lunch to be over.  Someone suppresses a burp. Cut to three empty seats.  The boss glares at them Cut to door crashing open.  A young woman of thin and nervous mien skitters in, jacket, papers,

There are Islamic reformers out there.  Consider the case of expatriate Syrian psychiatrist, Wafa Sultan.  She lives in the U.S., is estranged from her family back in Syria, and has participated in a couple of high-profile interviews on al-Jazeera, which got her banned from Arab media.  She also got leaned on by CAIR for her reforming work.  Until 9/11, that is; after which she told them to fuck off: “Today

A new Army advertising campaign.  I have rather deep feelings about it, but I don’t matter.  I am already in for over 21 years.  But what YOU think matters.  Please go HERE and watch the ‘brand ethos’ video and leave a comment – what worked and what didn’t.

Zarathustra writes: Jeff, your site is going to pure shit! Discuss. David weighs in re: Reid There is no “there” there.  And you all know it. By the way, this place has really gone to crap. UPDATE: seems that was a typo for “puree shit.” Sorry for the overreaction, Z-man UPDATE x2: Purity of sh*t not high enough: It would have to improve to get to pure sh*t. Posted by

Robert Cox’s article in the Examiner is absolutely on target: But it’s not just Google’s media and financial muscle that benefits the left. Liberals run the leading blog search engine — Technorati. They run the leading blog software manufacturer — Six Apart. They invented two of the most important blogging technologies — Podcasting and RSS. The list goes on and on. It may not matter who manufacturers your radio since

Email from Jeff: Funny you should mention that [ed.–the experience of using a laser level while on psilocybin.  I was up at 5 am on an extension ladder hanging a wall clock.  Alone.  After using a stud finder and a laser level to find the appropriate place—15 feet up. This, a mere five days after I put together and wired up a complex ceiling fan and—just yesterday, using the sod

Stung that Captain Ed’s site was voted one of the 10 Best Political Sites (or whatever) in the blogosphere by Playboy, Jeff asks the very pertinent question: What. Do. I.  Have. To. Bang. To. Get. Some. Pub? B Moe thinks he has a possible answer, above.  What do you think?

Suzanne Fields has an op-ed in the Washington Times today, on the new HBO biopic of slain Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.  He would have been 43 this week.  I remember how shocked and outraged I was when I learned of the manner of his murder.  It turned into sheer hatred when I found out that the monsters had actually videotaped it, and were selling it in bazaars and

listen with intense interest as Captain Ed addresses the Playboy Blog Awards crowd. Trey Jackson has the video.

The complex dealings allowed Reid to transfer ownership, legal liability and some tax consequences to Brown’s company without public knowledge but still collect a seven-figure payoff nearly three years later. Googling “Harry Reid” and “land deal” brings up some very interesting background information, and gives one a sense of the variety of land issues that Senator Reid has been involved in and how they have benefitted him in the past.