Monday, December 31, 2007

Top Ten New Year's Resolutions

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10. Lindsay Lohan (and Mischa Barton, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, ad nauseam) -- Call a taxi. 9. Rudy Giuliani -- Size zero sequined number...
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Sunday, December 30, 2007

Spiked Punch

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In his Political Punch column, Jake Tapper helps Fred Thompson explain himself a little more thoroughly. The larger point Thompson seems to...
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Saturday, December 29, 2007

The Passion of the Brady

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You know, if the NFL needs Team Tuck Rule to win it that fucking badly, why not just save us all another month of shitty officiating and giv...
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The Tedium Is the Message

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I'm always down for a slap fight twixt opinionators (although, to be sure, with the conservatards being more robust in their epithets, ...

Accountability

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Presumably because Mobutu Sese Seko's availability is compromised by his being dead and all, Izvestia has opted to further squander its...

Truthy Versus Facty

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So let's see -- Huckabee does not know where Pakistan is, nor has he any clue as to what proportion of our illegal immigrant population...
Friday, December 28, 2007

Professionamalism

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Never before has a boutique blog been launched with such care and detail. Can't wait for the next illuminating post. It's been elev...

Ride the Tiger

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Couple more things on the developing investigation of the tiger attack at the SF Zoo the other day. The hysteria over this event, recklessly...
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Thursday, December 27, 2007

Dare To Be Stupid

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It's like spitting on a fish; it's like barking up a tree. It's like saying you gotta buy one if you wanna get one free. -- ...
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The Illusion of Control

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There are days when momentous events happen with such sudden force, that people can only step back for a second and pause, and try comprehen...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Pillars of Humanity

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50 Most Loathsome People of 2007. Check it out.

Predators

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Everybody's heard about the tiger attack at the SF Zoo by now. It's in all the papers and everything. The rampage began about 20 mi...
Tuesday, December 25, 2007

Season's Bleatings

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I don't think the word "mixed" means what CNN thinks it means. It's the best of times, it's the worst of times -- a t...
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Monday, December 24, 2007

Offensensitivity

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Anne Applebaum rightly -- if obtusely, as if we don't all know the answer to the rhetorical question -- asks why we don't repudiate...

Paul Maul

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Something the Ron Paul goofballs still haven't gotten through their thick skulls -- the guy is his own worst enemy. He's still quib...

Hope In Their Souls

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Thank the Flying Spaghetti Monster for Mike Huckabee , seriously. That muffled-pop sound you keep hearing is heads exploding from the cynica...
Friday, December 21, 2007

Black Like Me

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I can't see the Willard X thing sticking for more than a day or two, especially considering it was a gaffe originating from a clear att...
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Thursday, December 20, 2007

It's a Festivus Miracle!

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Paradise is just up the ridge from Chico, so this story has jammed up the local news, especially since it went national. As the time the fa...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Maybe a Telethon Would Help

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Seriously, does Savage have end-stage Tourette's or something? It's not the intemperate boobery so much as the sheer incoherence of...
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Civil Wars

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Interesting kerfuffle going on at Roy's over some hortatory boilerplate by Michael Totten which, thanks to the (oh dear!) incivility o...