Archive for: February 2006

Just back from Best Buy, where I picked up Lady and the Tramp for the kid (he especially likes the stuffed Tramp that comes along with it) and Threat for myself.  I’m interested to see what a bunch of teens and twenty-somethings (the oldest, who wrote the script at 21, turned 22 on the day filming began) can do with an indie project that is purported to make Kids look tame by comparison.

Anyway, I bring this up only by way of introduction to a link from Tom Elia that I received while I was out helping to keep the floundering US economy from grinding to a permanent halt—or at least, keep it going until tax increases, neo-isolationism, and an end to the “outsourcing” of jobs indicative of free market globalization save us.  Thankfully, such policies will be instituted by our next benevolent liberal-Democratic mommy leader, whomever he or she may be.

But back on point:  Here’s Tom, with “Howard Dean Speaks Again!”—which excerpts a speech today given by the DNC chair at the Annual Conference of the Jewish Council for Public Affairs [emphasis in the original]:

Okay, not quite.  But still.

From the WSJ/AP:  “New York Times Sues Department of Defense For Eavesdropping Records”:

From the UK Telegraph comes this story of a Punjab anti-abortion/choice campaign that, ironically, is designed to shame pregnant women into carrying girl babies to term:

From the Economist:

A wave of cross-border mergers is sweeping across Europe. But as globalisation and no-holds-barred capitalism gather strength on the continent, France and others are trying to stiffen the barriers to economic integration on “strategic” grounds. …

me: “Wow.  You’re really heavy on the sodium, aren’t you?”

ramen:  “You’re right, I’m sorry.  Should I give you back your fucking dime, Mr. Rockefeller?”

[note:  follow-up post here]

Looks like the National Review itself is the latest to throw the noose around Bill Buckley’s useless, weathered neck:

Well, if you’re so damned tired, go lie down already, why dontcha?

In a NYT op-ed today, Barry Posen, a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, argues that

Via Bareknucklepolitics, this story from Herald Today, “Ohio lawmaker to propose ban on GOP adoption”:

One should never take

for granted the strange magic

of indoor plumbing.