From the NYT: Buried deep in the health care legislation that President Obama signed on Tuesday is a new requirement that will affect any American who walks into a McDonald’s, Starbucks or Burger King. Every big restaurant chain in the nation will now be required to put calorie information on their menus and drive-through signs. In other words, as soon as 2011 it will be impossible to chomp down on

Just received an email from Antik denim asking me if I wouldn’t mind removing the rear tags and signature stitching from my Antik “McQueen” jeans. Because while Antik has always liked the way I look in the jeans, they are nevertheless “more and more alarmed,” they tell me, by my “propensity to clench my ass” in a manner that “some might construe as aggressive and potentially violent. Or maybe racist.”

From bitter-clinging, two-digit teabagger John Stossel, Christhumping in Reason: Bernie Madoff took money from people who thought he’d invested it, gave some to others who thought it was a partial return on their earlier investments, and kept much for himself. That’s called a Ponzi scheme, and his $50 billion fraud was called the biggest ever. But it wasn’t the biggest. Social Security and Medicare are much bigger ones. These are

So there I am, smoking a roach on the bus stop bench across from this great little dive taco stand River Phoenix turned me on to — when it hits me: what if I’m not in Heaven after all, you know? — But then, almost like a sign, this totally stacked chick appears out of nowhere and jams her tongue in my ear. Not only that, but she’s sporting full-on

From the AP: Brushing off a snag in the Senate, House Democratic leaders said they are prepared to finish work by late Thursday on a package of fixes to the big health care law signed by President Barack Obama. […] “The Senate is expected to complete work this afternoon on the improvements bill to the new health care reform law,” said Hoyer, D-Md. “If they finish their work later today

More on yours truly, this time from the soft left pole of the progressive-“pragmatic conservative” axis of Jeff Hate. “What do you do in the wake of a crushing political defeat?”:

— Or, “once a word can mean anything, it will mean everything.” David Harsanyi, writing in the Denver Post: As a layman, I have little business wading into the intricacies of constitutional law — though, in my limited understanding of this nation’s founding tenets, forcing patriots to buy something in the private market seems to undermine the entire point of the project. Judging from the celebratory mood of the Democrats,

I wrote this: […] today’s liberal-Democrats are nothing but opportunistic and increasingly reprehensible tin-plated Macchiavellians; to many of these people, rhetoric trumps truth; spin is paramount, and power is all. Never before in my lifetime did I find it even remotely possible that our country could fight another civil war. But I’m beginning to think that a (non-violent) civil war is coming—and that, frankly, it needs to happen. How it

me: “Would it help if I maybe sucked on an ice cube or something, you think –?” viral pharyngitis: “Depends. You give up on trying to bang it already?”

I’m getting a bit fed up with the insistence by statists that because they populate the arts and the academy, they have some kind of death grip on “hip.” For instance, here’s Nishi, whose only hope of ever really touching cool would be to pay somebody to fuck her once with an ice dong: Doughy Pantsload aka Jonah Goldberg is the antithesis of cool …. .he doesnt even get that