Open Threads

Many thanks to Mr. Harris and his kind words for this blog. I am not sure if I deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as the Instapundit, LGF, Live from the WTC, and Quasipundit, but I appreciate it nonetheless. If you have not visited his site, Ipse Dixit, check the links to the left and go have a read. And make sure you check out his caption contest and captions of the day.

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Many apologies for my frothing rant last night. Generally when I am that angry, I try to get away from the keyboard- and when I am going to be as ill-tempered and hotheaded I generally draft first, cool down, and then decide to post. There was no such moderation last night. And I still stand by what I said.

Read the Lantos report I linked below, and see if you don’t get as mad as I did.

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	You are Gonzo! You’re a bit loopy, and many people have trouble figuring out exactly what you’re supposed to be. You take pride in your eccentricity and originality.
Take the What Muppet Are You? Quiz!

Via Matthew Edgar.

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Hyperbole Alert:

Karl Rove’s loyalty police should be on deep orange alert, if not hot pink. There is a sleeper cell operating in the White House.

I actually watched Milbank defend this schlock on Hardball with Chris Matthews. Matthews was in his near orgasmic state (as he usually gets whenever someone mentions anything loosely conspiratorial), throwing out words like cabal as if Milbank’s writing was the revelation. Milbank seemed to take this whole thing in a more tongue in cheek matter, but Matthews was convinced- this is a NEOCON conspiracy.

At one point, Matthews even asked: “How does a Canadian (David Frum) become a speechwriter in the White House. No one bothered to ask how a windbag Carter speechwriter becomes a bloviating political talk show host.

Wake the children! Phone the neighbors. Grab the pitchfork. Conservatives with an interventionist foreign policy towards rogue states are at the helm of our government. Several of them are even (this is so horrible to mention), speechwriters.

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I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me. —Hunter S. Thompson

Why is it that the people who are most against drugs are the ones who almost drive me to do them? Apparently there is a new drug hysteria brought on by the fact that Oklahoma thinks everyone in their band and other after-school activities is on crack. I remember when I was in High School, the joke went like this:

Did you hear that 80% of high school students are sexually active?

No. Really?

Yeah. The other 20% are in the band.

Apparently now they are smoking rock and shooting up. I did a google search for ‘drug fiending tuba players,’ and came up with nothing, so I am not sure how serious the problem really is, but I do know one thing- I would have had to have been stoned to the bejeezus to ever have anything to do with the band when I was in high school.

I spent several years working with people in the Education Department of a prominent university. You should hear some of the off-the -wall, hare-brained teaching strategies they teach prospective teachers to go out and inflict on our youth. No wonder they need an escape. Then again, half the students could be self-medicating themselves, trying to find some balance between all the ritalin and other crap all the fruity bastards in psychiatry are forcing the kids to take.

Hell, I need a stiff drink after listening to this pro drug testing nanny on MSNBC.

Our country does have a serious drug problem. It is our drug policy.

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Has anyone seen Glenn Kinen or Matt Yglesias lately?

This story makes me wonder…

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William Sulik confirms he is a geek with an ‘all your base’ reference.

William Sulik confirms he isPost + Comments