Somebody stop me...

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Since the Pope has such influence, why doesn't he just get in his popemobile and go down to Iraq and ask the terrorists to stop killing people? It couldn't hurt.

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So i got that goin' for me...

...which is nice.

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Here's a cute picture of Mike and Coretta in 1956.

Read Why This Day Matters, by Soonerland, at Dustbury.com. Link via Michelle Malkin.

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Bill Clinton paid a visit to Moxie this weekend. Pool hijinx ensued, followed by drinks and a little spooning.

Happy belated birthday, Madison. You're the best!

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1 awwwww, thank you darling!! You rock the mike on stage, yourself

Posted by: Moxie at January 17, 2005 08:13 PM (tUFhb)

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Young Pundit has a rundown of the arguments against Social Security privatization.

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1999 Trinity Oaks Zinfandel, $4.99 at Bel Air Market. This is good shit. Tastes like a ten dollar bottle of wine. Looks and smells good too. The 1999 label isn't as pretty as the one pictured here, but don't let that fool you. At that price, i could drink two bottles tonight, but i won't.

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Huge games today. i predict TO-less Philly, (whom, all year long, i figured would go all the way) will lose to Minnesota, with bad-ass Randy Moss looking to silence his critics. i also predict that the Pats (famous for their winning streak) will go down at the hands of the Colts (famous for their QB's TD streak).

Halftime update: Moss' head is not in the game. My predictions have become like the cover of Sports Illustrated.

Postgame update: Philadelphia won pretty handily, 27 to 14, setting up a battle of the birds next weekend. (Can i take credit for being the first to call the NFC championship game the battle of the birds?) i totally forgot about the weather at Gillette Stadium, but i'm sticking with my prediction for the Pats-Colts game.

Post Pats game update: Fucken shit.

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It takes me about 20 seconds of watching network news before i get into a bad mood. NBC News this morning: "With the Iraqi elections only two weeks away, the Bush administration appears to be engaged in a campaign to lower expectations." WTF? Whose expectations are they talking about? The mainstream media has been on their own campaign to lower expectations about Iraq for the last two years.

The NBC reporter also made a point of saying that Bush's approval ratings are currently lower than Reagan's or Clinton's at similar points in their presidencies. Now, Bush is certainly not "the great communicator,"* but i have an idea how Bush can get his approval ratings to match the spike in Clinton's ratings after January 21, 1998. Bush should get a blow job!
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* U. S. Grant or Andrew Johnson might have been less articulate than Bush . . . but only when they were drunk.

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It is impossible to listen to Louis Armstrong's 1931 recording of Stardust without tearing up. Trust me on this.

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Peggy Noonan, whose grip on reality i thought was becoming a bit shaky based on some of her recent columns,* has rehabilitated my opinion of her with her latest piece, "MSM Requiem." i think it's the best post-Rathergate commentary i have read, or will ever hope to read.

Now anyone can take to the parapet and announce the news. This will make for a certain amount of confusion. But better that than one-party rule and one-party thought. Only 20 years ago, when you were enraged at what you felt was the unfairness of a story, or a bias on the part of the storyteller, you could do this about it: nothing. You could write a letter.

When I worked at CBS a generation ago I used to receive those letters. Sometimes we read them, and sometimes we answered them, but not always. Now if you see such a report and are enraged you can do something about it: You can argue in public on a blog or on TV, you can put forth information that counters the information in the report. You can have a voice. You can change the story. You can bring down a news division. Is this improvement? Oh yes it is.

Via Lopsided Poopdeck.

Update: Check out this Krauthammer piece too. Link via commenter Shelly.
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* Like when she suggested that Steven Spielberg could singlehandedly solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? Come on! If Jason Alexander and Richard Geer can't do it, what chance does Spielberg have?

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Please tell the talent to stop chewing while talking. It doesn't project casual coolness, it's just gross. It doesn't matter how attractive the speaker/chewer is. Mouth sounds are gross, especially when amplified by a 5.1 home theater system.

Also, everybody in the real O.C. is Republican. Even the kids. So have a clue, and stop inserting those snide liberal one-liners into the dialogue.

On the other hand: Peter Gallagher singing? Not bad. Surprisingly good, actually.

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1 You have to stop watching that show!

Posted by: Scof at January 14, 2005 08:30 AM (+OiAc)

2 Peter Gallagher rocks my world!

Posted by: ginger at January 14, 2005 03:09 PM (aTgkr)

3 But you keep watching don't you? Mwa ha ha ha! T.H.E.

Posted by: the hollywood elitist at January 14, 2005 07:15 PM (cxC7g)

4 You are higher than a kite if you enjoyed Gallagher's singing. I like the guy but the singing - yow. Super bad. I thought Allie McBeal was going to show up. You are dead on about the mumbling talking, particularly with Seth and Ryan. I know a few millionaires who aren't Republican, but that's NorCal... maybe you're right.

Posted by: Jason Shellen at January 16, 2005 04:52 PM (aV1r0)

5 Oh come on, the singing was a riot. He was, actually, the dean-martin-esque guy singing "Memories are made of this" in the Hudsucker Proxy, all those many years ago. Ahh, how far he has come.

Posted by: gunge at January 16, 2005 06:37 PM (HI4G2)

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via Ginger.

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Here's a new meme, which i stumbled across at The Cheese Stands Alone.

"Copy the list from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don't have on your home library shelves and replace them with names of authors you do have. Bold the replacements."

Not sure if it's a rule, but i'm going to limit my list to fiction authors only.

1. Ayn Rand


2. William Gibson


3. Mark Helprin


4. Jacqueline Carey


5. Jennifer Weiner


6. J.R.R. Tolkien


7. Jack McDevitt


8. Tom Wolfe


9. Stephen King


10. William Shakespeare

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i get hate mail every once in a while. Not too often, thankfully, since i'm a relatively little known blogger. But Michelle Malkin, because she's a published author, television pundit and columnist, who also happens to be beautiful and a filipina American, must get a ton of it. i was shocked to see the number of haters who defaulted to the "w" word, which seems to be the insult of choice whenever an attractive woman gets "uppity." The letters are pretty disgusting, and i don't know how Michelle deals with all that abuse, but God bless her, she does.

And (if i may be allowed a bit of hypocrisy by doing some name calling of my own): Disgusting Lard Ass Ollie Wills shows his true colors yet again by condoning these racist and mysogynist attacks and even adding a racist slant of his own. i won't link to the fatbody because he is probably the biggest asshole in the blogosphere.

There's a culture of hatred on the fringes of the left that is seldom recognized or denounced. It exists on the right too, but today most conservatives reject that type of extremism vehemently when it appears in our own ranks. i know of examples of such rejection in the blogosphere in the form of public "de-linking." Kevin's criticism of Michael Savage, with which i agree, is another example. But on the left, where Bush hatred and anti-Christian bigotry are so encouraged and mainstream, it must be hard for some people to avoid giving in completely to their own hatred. In the end, the rhetoric of these types becomes as vile as the worst Nazi or Klansman.

B. Preston of JunkYardBlog summarizes the problem best, i think:

It's clear to me that the left has a problem. It is a political movement full of bigots. Anti-Americans at the core, anti-Christians over here, race bludgeons and hucksters over there, leftists who hate everything that isn't absolutely sterilized of all traces of faith over there, a death cult that pushes what amounts to eugenics through unfettered abortion over there, and all ably led by a bunch of potty-mouthed Hollywood elites who wouldn't give a nickel for the country that made them rich. The rank-and-file, the types who send Michelle Malkin racist emails her way on a daily basis and they types who never lift a finger to purge the movement of the racists, are just as bad as the elites. If you weren't, they wouldn't be elites, would they? You make them 'elite' by listening to them and voting for them.

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You've probably already heard the rumor that it was Angelina, not Brittany, who allegedly played a role in the first big breakup of 2005.

Sultry Angelina Jolie 'got under' Brad Pitt's skin while they shot a movie together last year, in a sexless but too-tight relationship that 'bothered' Jennifer Aniston, pals say.

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'They did not sleep with each other,' but Pitt 'was obviously taken by Angelina.'

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'He changed,' the source told the mag. 'It might have been slight, but it's noticeable. And Jennifer knew it.'

But Pitt's pals poured water on a steamy report in a British tabloid that Aniston caught the 'Ocean's Twelve' star and Jolie having phone sex, and they insisted he has always been loyal to his 'Friends' wife of 4-1/2 years.

Seriously, i don't really give a shit why they broke up and i couldn't care less who they're fucking. But i can't pass up the opportunity to work on my photoshopping skills.

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Here's something a little lighter, for this week. Plus it'll fit within two of my rubrics.

A quick google search revealed that Brittany Spears, besides being a fascinating singer/actress/entertainer/essayist/dancer/amateur physicist/skank, is also a poet. Brittany apparently contacted the proprietors of Tastes Like Chicken, and they agreed to publish some of her very own poetry. Here's a sample:

MOMMY, CAN YOU READ ME A BOOK?

Mommy, will you please read me this book?
It made no sense to me when I gave it a look
It's confusing and weird and it is very scary
I can't make out what it is saying to me... ah, Barry
Oh. I was trying to read a book of stamps.
Never mind.

Go here to read some even better poems by Brittany.

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Shakespeare I ain't (a rebellion against talented writing) by Ginger of Candied Ginger, complete with mysterious picture.

Celebrate the King's birthday with The Thing About Elvis Movies by gcotharn of The End Zone.

Scorebard of Humbug comments on the recent blockbuster baseball moves with I Read the News Today, Oh Boy.

Blog O'DOB lyricizes the CBS fiasco in Joe Lockhart to Barnes to Mapes.

And from a blogger whose every post is like poetry anyway, Tony Pierce, we have "no one home but the stove and thats fixin to go out." Cool.

Anyone know of some others?

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Desperate Housewives has become a cultural phenomenon of sorts. So i decided to enlist frequent commenter Casca to help me goof on analyze last Sunday's episode via IM, since we're both in the same time zone. What follows are the results of that analysis: more...

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Jeff at Beautiful Atrocities posts a "Foot Fetishist's Guide to the Blogosphere."

And there's a very familiar set of sexy pointy boots, too!

Hat tip to Victor for the alert.

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