Question of the Day

The American Film Institute once again ranked Citizen Kane as the #1 movie of all time, the same as they did in 1998.
Do you agree? If not, what film would you rate as the #1 film of all time…so far?

Science and Ideology

As far as I know, I don’t have anyone in my immediate family whose life or health could be helped by embryonic stem-cell research. Gratefully, my parents are as healthy as can be wished for people of their age, and as far as I know, my siblings do not suffer from any debilitating illness [...]

Rape is Hilarious: Jerry Seinfeld Edition

And not just hilarious, but sophisticated:
Jerry Seinfeld is busy building buzz for his “Bee Movie.”
… “Bees have the only perfect society on earth,” he told us at a sneak preview of his film. “Other insects are just kind of crawling around. They don’t have the sophistication of the bee.”
“They have no crime, they have no [...]

Cheney To Waxman: Eat Me.

Don’t take my word for it. Read for yourselves:
The Oversight Committee has learned that over the objections of the National Archives, Vice President Cheney exempted his office from the presidential order that establishes government-wide procedures for safeguarding classified national security information. The Vice President asserts that his office is not an “entity within the executive [...]

Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Ann Althouse*

*But Were Afraid To Ask (with apologies to Dr. David Reuben)
What does Ann Althouse want?
In 1925 in a conversation with Marie Bonaparte Sigmund Freud famously asked “What do women want?” If he were alive today, he might indeed have asked, “What does Ann Althouse want?” and had just as much difficulty figuring out the answer.
What [...]

Live free, die hard, evade taxes

Ed and Elaine Brown: Not down with the whole Sixteenth Amendment thing. Big on Jimmy Cagney impersonations, however.
Ed Brown warned authorities they wouldn’t take him alive: “We either walk out of here free or we die.”
Meanwhile, their supporters certainly make a rational case for the Browns’ civil action.
Sitting in lawn chairs around the Browns’ long [...]

I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Medium John…

My hero for today is Elizabeth Edwards, for daring to light up hatman:
Her comment came in response to a Drudge item quoting a local newspaper account that suggested that the Edwards’ nine-year-old child supported Hillary, not her father.
Election Central has learned that Elizabeth put a comment in the comments section of another Web site’s post [...]

Read-Ems

Erica Barnett: The Stranger’s Gay Male Pride Issue
Joseph Hughes: More from the “progressive” Air America
Pam Spaulding: Mitt’s Utah finance chair slapped with abuse, molestation lawsuits
Rock_Ninja: Oh, What A Tangled Interweb We Weave…
As always, please feel free to use as a blogwhoring thread.

Ashcroft tells the truth; Truth, once again, has anti-Bush bias

Let me tell you something I thought would never happen.
I never thought in a million jillion gazillion years that I would say, “Thank the Baby Jebus for John Ashcroft.”
Former Attorney General John Ashcroft confirmed the Bush administration was sharply divided over the legality of President Bush’s most controversial eavesdropping work, the chairman of a congressional [...]

Quote of the Day

“Proud you’re here. Thanks for coming. You all enjoy yourself. Make sure you pick up all the trash after it’s over.”—President Bush, to Kermit Ruffins and the Barbeque Swingers, a New Orleans jazz band comprised of black musicians, on the occasion of their providing the entertainment at a barbecue on the South Lawn of the [...]

News from Shakes Manor

As I’ve mentioned before, Mr. Shakes and I are addicted to So You Think You Can Dance, mainly because it’s got lots of just great, compelling, beautiful dancing on it by real dancers, but also because it provides us with the opportunity to guess how long it would take our graceless fat asses to learn [...]

This modern age

A technological first for me: Being privy – as it were – to a mobile phone conversation in an adjoining stall as I conducted urgent business in my own stall.
What made the experience really odd was the accompanying low level sound of a computer hard drive grinding away.
The gentleman was obviously a strong proponent of [...]

Sanctity Of Life: Oh, Really?

Right on the heel of W’s affirmation for the sanctity of embryo life comes this:
BAGHDAD – The U.S. military announced the deaths of 14 American troops, including five killed Thursday in a single roadside bombing that also killed four Iraqis in Baghdad…
…A rocket-propelled grenade struck a vehicle in northern Baghdad about 12:30 p.m. Thursday, killing [...]

“Good Americans” – The Plot Sickens

The Washington Post is finally catching up to the story that I posted on Monday about the political correctness in the Department of Justice.
Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. And they were minority [...]

New York Pride Parade Suffering

Here is a good article from June 19 in the New York Observer about the dwindling popularity of the New York City gay pride parade. Different people are quoted, giving their takes on why pride parades in general are suffering, but the major consensus seems to be that gay people are more assimilated into [...]

Keepin it 4reel!

I absolutely LOVE stories like this. Forget Suri, Pilot Inspektor, Apple, or other kooky celebrity baby names – a New Zealand couple wanted to name their son “4real” after seeing an ultrasound and being struck by the reality of situation. Heavy, dude! They were totally pwn3d by the NZ Registry of Births, [...]

Sign Me Up!

One ticket for the fast train to Loopyland, please:
The European Space Agency (Esa) is seeking volunteers for a simulated human trip to Mars, in which six crew spend 17 months in an isolation tank. …The 500-day duration is close to the minimum estimated timescale needed for a human trip to the Red Planet.
…Once the hatches [...]

Paulose Staffers Applaud Her Critics

One of the subplots of the US Attorney Scandal is the ongoing debacle going on Minnesota, where Rachel Paulose, a young, very conservative, very-well-connected-to-Monica Goodling attorney succeeded Tom Heffelfinger.  Heffelfinger was likely pushed out due to an unwillingness to pursue then-State Attorney General Mary Kiffmeyer’s quest to invalidate the use of tribal IDs in state [...]

Christine Daniels: A Woman in Progress, a complete human

Waking up to read about the recent remarks made by homophobe Republican Florida State Rep. D. Alan Hays (“I had a cousin who died of AIDS. He was queer as a three-dollar bill. He had that homosexual lifestyle and deserved what he got.”) it’s easy to begin the day feeling that so many [...]

Missing Soldier’s Wife Threatened With Deportation

This strikes me as one of those stories that, once having had the bright light of media shined in its direction, will be resolved fairly. But my perception about such things was shaped back in the days when low-level bureaucrats, ever the sticklers for rules, were encouraged by a compassionate (and easily embarrassed) government [...]