I'm officially wading into this thing, and not because I necessarily believe a one-day boycott of partial content will be at all "sending a message" or in any other way effective. I'm making a post about the LJ boycott because I'm getting sick and tired of hearing the third party ass-headers who think they know what's going on because they read ( Read more... )

Kowbaby took her first steps Monday night. These were really honest to goodness, unassisted steps. She took a couple away from Mommy, stopped, wobbled a tad, and then finished up the performance with four more steps into Daddy's arms. Since she actually stopped and restarted herself without help, we're counting it ( Read more... )

bittergourd dropped the remake bomb on us yesterday with the announcement that Peter Berg has signed on to direct the new film version of Frank Herbert's Dune. Needless to say, the idea of the man behind The Kingdom and The Rundown directing a film adaptation of a novel that has confounded film makers such as David Lynch and (some would say) John Harrison is ( Read more... )

Raise your hand if you've heard of this Act of Congress from 1910. Would it help you out if I told you Chuck Berry, Rex Ingram, Charles Manson, and Jack Johnson were all sent to jail because of it? How about if I tell you Frank Lloyd Wright and Charlie Chaplin were both prosecuted under it and had their careers ruined ( Read more... )

You may start hearing within the next day or so about how the "Democratic Congress" voted down an election year moratorium on earmarks. The "earmark moratorium" was an amendment to Joint Resolution 70, otherwise known as the budget for 2009.

Here is the text in full according to The Thomas Library:
SA 4347. Mr. DeMINT (for himself, Mr. McCain, ( Read more... )

I get that it's Saint Patrick's Day. I get the fact that if you're a Caucasian American who's family has been here for more than three generations (and don't live in some place where the family tree only has three branches ... yes, I'm looking at you South Carolina) the chances are pretty damn good you have a shoosh of Irish in you somewhere. I ( Read more... )

Leave a comment and I will ( Read more... )

Let's just take a quick look at her campaign incidents up to this week ( Read more... )

So it looks like another Dem got snapped up in election year prosecutions and shenanigans. According to the New York times, Eliot Spitzer has been caught on a Federal wire tap arranging to meet a hired escort from the Emperor's Club website. If this had been any other DoJ, I wouldn't care about this issue. But this is the Bush Administration who ( Read more... )

I dare you to not get this song stuck in your head.

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Go on, it'll make you smile just a tad.