“Cattle rustling has a new face: A $3,200 fiberglass cow has been stolen from a Chick-Fil-A billboard near C-470 and Santa Fe Drive,” The Rocky Mountain News reports. The cow, one of the company’s well-known mascots urging customers to ‘Eat Mor Chikin,’ was apparently taken during the weekend by thieves with far too much time on their hands. They unbolted the 150-pound cow from the billboard and lowered it to

Professor Mona Baker. Professional Jew hater.

Two years and a fine my ass! I say we take this asshole out to a field and put a half-dozen slugs into him. I’ll bring the picnic basket. For afterwards, when I’m enjoying a nice tuna sandwich over his lifeless, bullet-riddled carcass. [Feel like helping? Donate here; more on this story here]

In the unlikely event you haven’t already done so, go read Mark Steyn’s National Post piece, “Whatever you do, don’t call it a hate crime.” Here, I’ll even get you started: Suppose it was Judy Garland’s birthday and I went to my local gay bathhouse and opened fire on the fetching young men handing out the towels. How many minutes would tick by before the word “homophobia” was heard? Or

Is the Prez “shredding the Constitution” by invoking his war time powers without Congress having first declared an official war? Many of Tom Tomorrow’s frenetic little gadflies seem to think so. But how has the Supreme Court interpreted the President’s war powers? And need it even do so [cough cough Dellums] in every scenario that involves U.S. military operations…?

[update: From Nature, “Palaeoanthropology: Hominid revelations from Chad“]

Mayonnaise.

Paul Musgrave, writing for The Hoosier Review, says that I can’t draw. How Paul Musgrave, writing for The Hoosier Review, presumes to know this is anybody’s guess — given that Paul Musgrave doesn’t know me from Adam. Fact is, I can draw quite well. Quite well. And I’ve never, to my knowledge, said otherwise — either to Paul Musgrave, The Hoosier Review, or anyone affiliated in any way with either.

Hollywood maverick Rod Steiger died today. He was 77.

So I’m gonna take off here in a little while to go get myself a copy of The Royal Tenenbaums on DVD. Then I’m going to watch it. And I might even watch it while enjoying some strong, chilled hooch. Blogging will no doubt suffer for it. Along those lines (he said, attempting a rather hamfisted segue), here are a couple of links to The Weekly Standard’s amusing Point/Counterpoint debate