Rice Krispies: “Snap! Crackle! Pop! Pop! Snap! Snap! Crackle! Snap! Snap! Oh, hey, Jeff. Dude, whole milk? Seriously? Crackle! Snap!” *** (a necessarily abbreviated version of this post appears on my TWITTER page. Question: Are you following me yet on TWITTER? Because there are LOTS of minutes in the day…) *** Oh. And yeah, I’m still running my fundraiser — and I remain about a grand short. If you can

Here. Also, this is day 2 of my 2nd Quarter Fundraiser, and I’m less than halfway to where I want to be. Which is to make $10K a year. Divided by four quarters. You do the math. TWEET ME!

We barely even knew him, this protein wisdom fellow. But the prevailing wisdom is that he was not an easy person. Whatever that means. Try the veal! **** update: coming soon-ish, rise of THE PHOENIX! update 2: Hmm. I’ve got an idea: how about we do some kinda OUTLAWISH rallying cry. To show we’re on the same page. Whaddya say? WOLVERINE!

…begins now. For prior services rendered. And remember: every dollar you give will go to a guy who (it’s been argued) brooks no dissent, and who (purportedly) loves him the occasional child rape fantasy joke. Thanks in advance. **** update: One of my many many hardcore supporters writes: The last PW fundraiser started April 7, just 2 months ago. How many of these “quarterly” fundraisers are there going to be?

It’s being characterized as a “full-throated apology” that you can hear on the show tonight, so you can tell your grandkids about that time you heard Letterman apologize. Except that there’s no real articulation of what he did intend: “All right, here – I’ve been thinking about this situation with Governor Palin and her family now for about a week – it was a week ago tonight, and maybe you

Matronizing social worker rejoined, over and over. I expect to see a precipitous rise in such incidents in the Age of Obama. I guess it’s a couple of years old, but I found it deeply satisfying.

Now, apparently, to be a breathless new feature on NPR. For what it’s worth, Iranian users of Twitter indicate police attacking, firing on demonstrators in central Tehran.

A sample: DAVE You’re the boss, Big Daddy! Let’s go down on the shop floor and see how the build team is making it happen. Bad Boy Brian Deese — let’s see you get to work and deconstruct this baby! BAD BOY Gladly! In “On Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness,” Derrida introduces the notion of a sacred-profane postmodern industrial design linguistic synthesis through the lens of a hedgehog cowering before an oncoming

Amusement park operator Six Flags declared bankruptcy yesterday but says that it will keep its parks open, at least for now. According to the Washington Post, the company is carrying $2.4 billion in debt. Despite the fact that Six Flags reported 25 million visitors and posted record revenues in 2008, the debt is simply unsustainable, the Associated Press reports. The Obama administration indicated that it will purchase a controlling interest

CIA chief believes Cheney almost wants U.S. attacked And I think that the CIA Chief must be almost out of his effing gourd.