Miers: “Hmmm. Better let me have a vanilla shake, a chocolate shake, and a strawberry shake. After all, equality of representation and showy gustatory diversity are the most telling indicators that one has achieved a progressive and culturally enlightened lunch, are they not…?* **** More here, here, and here; rebuttals here and here and here. Background here and here.
October 20, 2005
SCOTUS nominee Harriet Miers showcases her political pragmatism by avoiding a tough ideological choice at the McDonald’s drive-thru window
October 20, 2005
the protein wisdom “interview”
Fake but…well, let’s just leave it at fake. Because personally? I think the whole elliptical bit still has legs.
October 20, 2005
Thursday Cheer (or, yet another reminder why language matters)
Compliments of John Derbyshire, writing at the Corner: […] All the windsocks are now pointing in the direction of more socialism. As the population ages, Americans will want more leisure, drugs, health care, nursing homes, security. As the Jihadist threat continues to metastasize (from the MidEast to Indonesia, Thailand, Africa, the Caucasus, Europe), we shall want the state to have more police powers, more scrutiny of us and our lives.
October 20, 2005
“South Park” lampoons Katrina Coverage
From Newsbusters: “South Park,” the popular Comedy Central show about the misadventures of a group of four Colorado boys, criticized the news media Wednesday night for its overhyped coverage of Hurricane Katrina. In the episode, two of the boys, Stan Marsh and Eric Cartman, accidentally crash a boat into a beaver dam, flooding an entire town. In the aftermath, local and national media blame it on global warming, ridiculously exaggerate
October 19, 2005
because protein wisdom is watching the Cardinals-Astros game and eating chips, he decides to post something from his archives that he kinda likes, and that he suspects many people never read
Here.
October 19, 2005
“World War II Airman Found Frozen in Glacier”
From KFSN-TV: It was a plane crash back in 1942 that wasn’t discovered until 1947. Now, hikers made a frozen discovery in connection with a World War II plane crash. Hikers found the frozen body of an airman while scaling Mount Mendel Glacier in the Sequoia National Park. Now, the military is working to find out who this airman is and whether he was ever reported missing. It’s believed the
October 19, 2005
Forty-eighth in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this entry, FOXNews’ Shepard Smith—as a way to “psych himself up” for the promised devastation of Hurricane Wilma—will have prank called Michael Brown for the third time in as many hours, this time to ask “if his refrigerator is running” before casually reminding the former FEMA head that, “for tens of thousands of people, refrigeration doesn’t even matter any more, because they’re
October 19, 2005
Film reviews in five words or less, #30
Cheerleader Camp [aka Bloody Pom Poms] (1987) Directed by John Quinn. Stars Betsy Russell, Leif Garrett, Travis McKenna, Lucinda Dickey, Lorie Griffin, and Teri Weigel Five words or less review: Leif Garrett actually raps. Ishityounot.
October 19, 2005
“Slouching Towards Miers”
Robert Bork, on the nomination of Harriet Miers—and Bush’s “conservatism”—in today’s WSJ “Opinion Journal”: With a single stroke—the nomination of Harriet Miers—the president has damaged the prospects for reform of a left-leaning and imperialistic Supreme Court, taken the heart out of a rising generation of constitutional scholars, and widened the fissures within the conservative movement […] There is, to say the least, a heavy presumption that Ms. Miers, though undoubtedly
October 19, 2005
Grieving Mom Cindy Sheehan and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss strategies for twenty-first century anti-war activism while ostensibly maintaining their commitments to fighting global terrorism, 10
“So… Now what?”* “Now we hang back and wait for the next peace movement. “—Speaking of which, did I mention that my hat just celebrated its thirty-eighth anniversary of speaking Truth to Power? The wife and I took it to Red Lobster for Shrimpfest—then afterwards, we let it get its freak on with this cute little Pueblo hooker David Crosby was kind enough to spring for. Good times…!”