It shames me a bit to have left the landmark ruling from District Court Judge Anna Diggs Taylor to a cursory first post with no follow-up. If the ruling is upheld on appeal the significance is practically unimaginable. The criminal ramifications alone make the Plame case look like kindergarten. So here goes. Ad hominem attacks …
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A Thousand Flowers Bloomed On Mount Bushiana
Yesterday’s post made me wonder who exactly soaks up these North Korean hero fables. Again via Steve Benen, now we know. Honestly, I dare DougJ or anybody else to write a spoof more embarrassing than John Hinderaker.
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Tall Tales
Two recent catches from the underrated Steve Benen: Pat Robertson leg presses 2,000 pounds. The president read 60 books this year. These are hardly the worst whoppers told by either man. Rather, both deserve mention mainly for the North Korean leader-cult ridiculousness of the reported feats. A determined person can certainly read sixty books in …
It Could be Just a Mistake
But I am over giving these guys the benefit of the doubt: Like a gap in the fossil record, evolutionary biology is missing from a list of majors that the U.S. Department of Education has deemed eligible for a new federal grant program designed to reward students majoring in engineering, mathematics, science, or certain foreign …
Unders Win
By about $12 million, according to radio reports (see below). This post would have gone up on Saturday after I saw the movie in an almost-empty house, if I hadn’t spent the weekend mostly away from the computer. Let this be a lesson for the entertainment industry to trust blog hysteria about as far as …
Friday Catblogging
I had a lot of entries this week for the return of cat-blogging, and I was initially going to put up a number of them. However, one stands head and shoulders above the rest, and even knocked Tunch out of contention. The winners are John H. and an apparently tasty Griselda: You can make your …
Thou Shalt Not…
Steal: A member of the Harrison County school board said if police recover the stolen portrait of Jesus that has hung outside the Bridgeport High School principal’s office for nearly 40 years, it would be put back in its place. “I can assure the ACLU that when we recover it, it will go back up,” …