merchant:  “…Uh, excuse me, ma’am…?  Unless you’re planning on buying ‘em, please don’t slide those gourds in your ass like that…”

“True, he hacked her up with a Bowie knife for $50 and a Michelob, but the real question we have to answer here is, how does he feel about what he did…?”*

IOL News: A new species of flightless bird has been discovered living on a tiny island in the northern Philippines where the inhabitants formerly ate them, scientists and birdwatchers said on Tuesday. The bird, named the “Calayan Rail”, is the size of a small crow and has dark brown plumage and bright orange-red legs and beak, said Carl Oliveros, who helped lead the joint Filipino-British expedition that found it. Evidently,

Rowan Scarborough, the Washington Times: “Saddam agents on Syria border helped move banned materials”: Saddam Hussein periodically removed guards on the Syrian border and replaced them with his own intelligence agents who supervised the movement of banned materials between the two countries, U.S. investigators have discovered. The recent discovery by the Bush administration’s Iraq Survey Group (ISG) is fueling speculation, but is not proof, that the Iraqi dictator moved prohibited

Rowan Scarborough, the Washington Times: “Saddam agents on Syria border helped move banned materials”: Saddam Hussein periodically removed guards on the Syrian border and replaced them with his own intelligence agents who supervised the movement of banned materials between the two countries, U.S. investigators have discovered. The recent discovery by the Bush administration’s Iraq Survey Group (ISG) is fueling speculation, but is not proof, that the Iraqi dictator moved prohibited

Bloomberg News:  “Bush to Shift 70,000 Troops to U.S. From Europe, Asia”: President George W. Bush announced plans to bring home as many as 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia, about 30 percent of U.S. forces overseas, in the largest American military redeployment since the Korean War. “Over the coming decade we’ll deploy a more agile and more flexible force,’’ Bush, 58, said in a speech to the Veterans of

**** update:  more here and here.

Read this. And this too.  Then—and this is completely unrelated—take a few minutes to write Eric Alterman an email telling him you shared an elevator with him last weekend, and that he really really smelled of ham and stewed apricots. Just to drive the smarmy narcissist crazy.

Read this. And this too.  Then—and this is completely unrelated—take a few minutes to write Eric Alterman an email telling him you shared an elevator with him last weekend, and that he really really smelled of ham and stewed apricots. Just to drive the smarmy narcissist crazy.