Just rid myself of a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses in record time by answering the door mounted on a burro and wearing a hand-woven poncho, over which I’d draped a couple of impressively stocked ammo belts.  Which, I’ve gotta tell you:  my CITIZEN JOURNALIST’S instincts are beginning to suggest to me that, were we somehow able to convince mid-level management types that they could live without Chi-Chi’s happy hour margaritas

Via Clint Taylor, we learn that the Harvard Alumni Association has taken radical chic beyond the Margaret Cho level of naming one’s designer pet for Baader-Meinhof terrorists and has upped the Otherness ante—offering $636-a night luxury tours of North Korea, with enlightened Harvard Alums soaking in the local customs to the point of being instructed to “bow as a gesture of respect at the statue of Kim Il Sung and

From Mark Tapscott, an excerpt of Maverick lawmaker and serial Republican presidential hopeful John McCain’s appearance on The Don Imus show, where the Arizona Senator relegates the First Amendment to what he fancies is its proper place: He [Michael Graham] also mentioned my abridgement of First Amendment rights, i.e. talking about campaign finance reform….I know that money corrupts….I would rather have a clean government than one where quote First Amendment

A quick glance out my living room window reveals that, aside from maybe one additional primer-colored ‘79 Chevy Nova on blocks in the front yard of the neighbor’s house across the street, all is quiet.  Eerily so?  No, not especially.  Which, of course, doesn’t mean that somewhere, avocados are going unpicked—or that uncollected shopping carts aren’t at this very moment beginning to infest the lot at the local Albertson’s like

Æon Flux (2005) Directed by Karyn Kusama.  Stars Charlize Theron, Marton Csokas, Jonny Lee Miller, Sophie Okonedo, Pete Postlethwaite, and Frances McDormand Five words or less review: Blissfully, only 80 minutes long…

Video at Hot Air.  Writes Allah: Tough night for Colby, who must have regarded this gig as a chance to play the Super Bowl on his home field. Watch the clip and see for yourself whom the crowd ended up rooting for. Crooks & Liars called the performance “dynamite,” which is close to the truth only insofar as it’s a munitions metaphor. Read Captain Ed for details. In Colbert’s defense,

     “Honey?  What’s say we put on those INS caps I picked up on eBay, head down to Wash Park, and stop Hispanic-looking people at random to demand they ‘show us their papers’? “Because Christ, do I ever love the expressions on their little immigrant faces when they feel like they’re about to be arrested, stacked like firewood in the back of some government-issued cattle truck, and dumped on the side

Stop the ACLU’s John Stephenson points to this impressive and thorough Yankee Sailor post, “Nuclear Deterrence in the Age of Terrorism,” which examines in some detail the familiar arguments for deterrence, and extrapolates from those arguments the problems likely facing us under current (and future hypothetical) conditions of global nuclear proliferation: […] Going forward into the 21st Century […] a number of changes in the balance of nuclear power have