Blog Note

Nevermind. The site is still hosed and keeps collapsing like a flan in a cupboard. It’s only up because I’m rebooting the server, but it will just keep crashing. So just head on over to the old site until we get sorted.
As you can see, we’re back up. (The list of [...]

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

Hurricane Party Round-Up

Here’s what you missed during the hurricane party…
Melissa: Two More Examples of Why We Need Federal Marriage Equality NOW
Melissa: “Lighten Up”
Jeff: Shorter Jules Crittenden
Mustang Bobby: Captain America, the Perv
Space Cowboy: Don’t Flatter Yourself, Dick
Melissa: Caption This Photo
Brynn: A third example of why we need federal marriage equality NOW
Jeff: Liveblogging the Debate
Melissa: Question of the Day
Mustang [...]

I Get Mail

From: [Name and Email Redacted]
Subject: You’re a dumb bitch
Thank you for making the dummying down of America complete – so much easier to laugh at you all this way.
There’s apparently no room for drooling idiots in your family – you unilaterally get all the credit.
When god (notice the small g) realizes what a mistake she [...]

The “Genial, Professorial” Grinning Deathhead

Howard Kurtz profiles William Kristol in the respectful way he reserves for rabid right-wing lunatics:
Bill Kristol’s the-war-is-being-won piece in The Washington Post brought him plenty of ridicule, but at least one person liked it.
President Bush read the July 15 Outlook article that morning and recommended it to his staff.
On the other hand, Arianna Huffington called [...]

Soon, Rape Won’t Exist at All—Not the Act, Mind You; Just the Word

Part Seven in an Ongoing Series: Part One. Part Two. Part Three. Part Four. Part Five. Part Six.
Reuters does a 240-word story (including headline) on Moroccan UN peacekeepers in the Ivory Coast being suspended “amid sex abuse charges,” including “having sex with a large number of underage girls,” which is at best statutory [...]

Educating Men About Rape

Pamela Pizarro has what I think is a telling anecdote about how we teach our youth about rape.  It’s based on her experiences in Canada, but I think it’s applicable to the U.S. as well:
I remember the day that they showed us the video on rape. It was during a physical education class, and our [...]

Let’s Give Tom Toles A Great Big Hand*

Ha! Via the Washington Post.
(H/T oddjob)
*thanks, darkblack

Heckuva Job, Brownie

Surely assuaging concerns in D.C. that he wouldn’t be as useful a tool as his predecessor Tony Blair, new British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has evidently decided to prove his mettle as a fearless lapdog by being as belligerent as his Beltway masters:
[Brown, holding his first Downing Street press conference,] said Monday that tougher sanctions [...]

Two-Minute Nostalgia Sublime

3rd Rock from the Sun

Thanks For That Wonderful Thank You, France — Now Here’s a Slap in the Face

There’s a lot of good writing in the blogosphere, but every once in a while I read a post that so exactly hits the nail on the head that I think, “Wow. I wish I’d written that.” Well, right now I’m feeling that way about the post Shamanic, over at Newshoggers, wrote regarding the boorish [...]

Caption This Photo

“I’ve actually got to talk to these losers?!”

I Have Met Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and They Are Named Chuck and Larry

Currently on Yahoo’s front page:

Adam Sandler: My accountant just came in his pants. I am nonetheless slightly ashamed.
Daniel Radcliffe: You’ve got to be fecking kidding me.
Melissa McEwan: I weep for the future, Shakers.
[The story says Harry may edge Chuck and Larry by weekend's end. Let us dare to hope... BTW: I'm not [...]

Pinkie Needs a Home

Shaker Jaclyn, who is a regular foster mom to animals in need of adoption, has just taken in a new ward, Pinkie. Pinkie needs a good home, and there’s information about Pinkie, and how you can adopt her, below the fold.

Am I cute or what?

More Guts

Dick Polman of the Philadelphia Inquirer thinks the Democrats should go for the visceral to win.
Consider this hypothetical:
A Democratic president is forced to take action after terrorists attack New York and Washington. It’s clear that the terrorists’ sponsors are based in Pakistan and Afghanistan. But within 18 months, this Democrat decides to invade a country [...]

Breaking: William Kristol explodes from hypocrisy

WASHINGTON — The rear section of Time Magazine star columnist William Kristol exploded today, leaving the neo-conservative leader hospitalized and in stable condition. Attending physicians have said they believe Kristol is the first human to ever literally explode from intellectual dishonesty.
“We all knew that hypocrisy builds up,” said Dr. Sven Hanson of Toronto, where Kristol [...]

‘Whiney, self-absorbed, full of Michael Totten and precious little else.’

I meant to get to a post on Michael Totten’s disturbingly narcissistic article about his travels to Iraq, but Mark Gisleson has beaten me to it — twice.
Totten’s article is a target-rich environment, but when you shoot fish in a barrel you still end up with dead fish:
I waited for my helicopter flight with two [...]

Just the Kind of Thing A Liberal Would Say

“In the wealthiest country in the history of the world, it is an outrage that anyone who works full time would still wind up in poverty. Everyone who puts in an honest day’s work should receive a fair day’s pay.“
That’s Rep. George Miller, D-Calif., chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, quoted in an [...]

RIP Tammy Faye

Tammy Faye Messner has died after her third bout with cancer. She was 65.
I was a great fan and admirer of Tammy Faye, and I am profoundly sad that she’s gone, though also relieved. When she appeared on Larry King’s show, in what was to be her final interview, on Thursday night (Part [...]

Questions and More Questions

The Grinning Deathhead has a question:
How can you say with a straight face that you support the troops while advancing legislation that would undercut their mission and strengthen their enemies?