I am not a blogger.  I hate the word “blog.” In fact, when somebody comes up to me and says, “dude, do you blog?”—I say something like, “what are you, some sort of queer?” And Peter Hoytema, the pastor of Midland Park Christian Reformed Church in Ridgewood, NJ, concurs.  Kind of.

President George W. Bush today will name two former presidents, his father George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, to lead a nationwide fund-raising effort to aid victims of the Asian tsunamis, a White House spokesman said. “This will be a nationwide charitable fund-raising effort,’’ spokesman Scott McClellan said. The toll from Asia’s earthquake and tsunamis climbed to 155,000 as more bodies were uncovered in Indonesia, the country worst hit by

I am not a pundit.  I don’t even like the word ”pundit.” In fact, I’m the kind of person who when he sees a homeless pundit begging for change on the street tells him to shut his stupid pie hole and get a job.  Because this ain’t Hyde Park, and I ain’t the goddamn hot toddy fairy. Dirty pundits. **** update:  also not a pundit.

Courtesy of Moxie. 

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Or, y’know—not.  From Heather Mac Donald’s “Taking Dictation from the ACLU,” The Weekly Standard, Oct 18 (subscribers only, so I’ll quote at length): IMAGINE THE New York Times writing a damning article about the Clinton administration’s tax policies cribbed exclusively from a Heritage Foundation press release. Can’t do it, can you? How about the Gray Lady recycling ACLU misinformation about the Patriot Act without any additional research? This time, no

Well, unless you’re Bill INDC or Kevin at punditreview, that is.  Because for those two, Saturdays are for chatting about politics and broadcasting measured punditry to literally millions of Boston-area political junkies.  And by millions, I mean thousands.  Or maybe scores. Scores of political junkies in the Boston area. Well, I’ll be listening.  12:30 PM ET.  And I’ll be listening while I’m making love.  But I’m unusually versatile that way.