I wanted to think this was a joke. I really did. Alas. Still, there's a sort of Zen perfection in the same paper that print Fred Hiatt's pro-disastrous-war editorials and stable of reliably pro-disastrous war columnists returning us to the 2001 summer of "Gary Condidit."
I'm still alive. But with the Bar looming larger each day, I am taking a brief blogging hiatus. I'll be posting here and there through July 30th, after which point.
The folks at No Quarter, who are evidently too dense to realize that this is insincere hyperbole.Good thing these people weren't around when McDonald's tossed the Hammurderer under the bus....John.
So GM is evidently preparing the needle to euthanize the Hummer. Hearing the news, Matthew DeBord -- recently seen offering neo-Althousian fashion tips to David Petraeus and giving a shit about Kirk Cameron -- feels a certain numbness in his groin and writes this apparent non-parody...
A useful tool. (Via Sanchez.) Bonus: Lanny Davis, a wanker for all seasons. (Davis: "The compromise bill would provide strict supervision by the special FISA Court." Sanchez: "This is right,.
This is kind of interesting. Neither China nor Russia have been shy about using their Security Council vetoes in defense of either regional interests, or in reference to particular issue.
Tony Snow passes away. I can say without hesitation that he was a much more capable White House press secretary than either his predecessor or his successor. Rest in peace.
I feel vindicated on the whole "latte sipping Jew" incident...
Dwight Eisenhower, letter to Ngo Dinh Diem, released 11 July 1959:I extend to you my congratulations and sincere good wishes on the occasion of your fifth anniversary as national leader.
Nate Silver, 6/25: If the media believes that Barack Obama is ahead by 5 points, then if a new poll comes out next week showing him ahead by 3, it will not get any attention. But if the media believes that Obama is ahead by 12...
A barn cat from Emden, Illinois, being mauled by the heiress to my vast misfortune.
....um, so my effort to embed video evidently failed. Just watch it hereEr, it's fake apparently, and I'm behind the curve. Never mind.