Michelle Malkin has compiled a list of 25 ways you personally can help support the troops. Go check them out, and if you can, do something nice for our men and women overseas.
Congrats Are in Order
Ezra Klein, paid hack. Good luck, Ezra.
Quick Links
* I forgot to mention this earlier, but I watched Ong-Bak, the Thai Warrior last night. Get used to the name Tony Jaa- he will be up there with Jackie Chan and Jet Li and others. And the Muay Thai moves are just cool.
* What if Ted Kennedy wrote children’s books? Fark gives us a sample.
* Cathy Young discusses Haleigh Poutre/Terri Schiavo and why they are different.
* A Denver Bronco’s fan claims he was humiliated in the classroom by his teacher and classmates, who are Steelers fans. BEFORE the game.
* George Galloway, human scum, shaking hands with Uday Hussein and taunting America. Cathy Young comments.
* Harold Meyerson echoes my sentiments:
Incompetence is not one of the seven deadly sins, and it’s hardly the worst attribute that can be ascribed to George W. Bush. But it is this president’s defining attribute. Historians, looking back at the hash that his administration has made of his war in Iraq, his response to Hurricane Katrina and his Medicare drug plan, will have to grapple with how one president could so cosmically botch so many big things — particularly when most of them were the president’s own initiatives.
Even in the few cases I support Bush still, he seems to work overtime to make me wish I weren’t.
* Glenn Greenwald has a long post up that claims that Sen. Mike DeWine (R-OH) introduced legislation that would make legal that which the administration is now accused of doing illegally. And the administration opposed it. Cue Harold Meyerson. Or maybe they didn’t.
I am on a diet starting today, not drinking any wine for a few months, and trying to shed some unhealthy weight I have put on. Expect me to be an XL-sized jar of attitude for a few days until I adjust. You have been warned. Speaking of fat, this is interesting:
West Virginia, which has one of the nation’s worst obesity problems, is expanding a project that uses a video game to boost students’ physical activity.
All of the state’s 157 middle schools are expecting to get the video game “Dance Dance Revolution,” and officials hope to put it in all 753 public schools within three years. A pilot project began in 20 schools last spring.
Students 10 to 14 years old are being targeted first because it is a key point in children’s development, said Linda Carson, a professor at West Virginia University’s School of Physical Education in Morgantown.
Interesting.
Which Sports Car
I’m a Lamborghini Murcielago!
You’re not subtle, but you don’t want to be. Fast, loud, and dramatic, you want people to notice you, and then get out of the way. In a world full of sheep, you’re a raging bull.
Take the Which Sports Car Are You? quiz.
(h/t InstaPundit)
And while we are discussingthe Instapundit, I will let you all mull over this post he made at Wonkette:
NORA EPHRON writes on “Twenty-Five Things People Have a Shocking Capacity to be Surprised By Over and Over Again.”
A couple of additions: (26) Journalists do, in fact, have agendas.
Also (27) Spermicide is not actually tasteless.
But this post is!
Things that make you go HRMM.
Congrats are in Order
Everyone go tell Matt Welch congratulations.
Radical “Radical Hunters”
Cathy Young confirms my suspicions about the UCLA radical hunters.
A Rare Occurrence
Rare are the moments when Hugh Hewitt and I agree completely and totally on something, but this is one of those times. Hugh has devised a questionnaire for any Republican who wants to be elected to Leadership, and I have got to say, the questions are great:
Thank you for applying for the position of Majority Leader. Please return this completed form to NZ Bear.
Part I. The Money Stuff
1. Does Jack Abramoff have your cell-phone number in his Blackberry?
____. Yes. (You may skip the rest of the questions.)
____. No.
2. Did you have signature privileges at Signatures restaurant?
____. Yes. (That's it. You're done. And you might want to get a lawyer.)
____. No.
3. In the last four years, have you accepted greater than $10,000
in campaign contributions from Abramoff clients?_____. Yes. (Thank you, that will be all. We know it isn't fair,
but elections aren't fair.)_____. No. (Are you sure about that?)
Read the whole thing. I hope it is not too jaded of me to wonder if anyone in the GOP can successfully complete that form to my satisfaction.