The Funny never stops...

Thanks dKos...

It almost makes me feel proud to be an American..

We Don't Need No Stinkin' Heisman Winners...

I guess....

JazzFest was always during finals when Colin and I were in law school...

that sucked...

Thank goodness that it still is...

I never got a chance to see Dylan there though...

Why did I go to Business School/Law School/College?

I should have gone to crane operator school

I would love to have this guy's job....

Commitment lacking for repubs

Photo-op exposed!! So funny

Steve Chapman may be fairly conservative but...

he's also one of the best Op-Ed columnists in the nation.

Here's a doozy about gas prices.

Ah Mother's day...

The day that reminds us that we are supposed to love our mothers...

Thank goodness we have this day, otherwise we all might have forgotten.

Fortunately, love can be most easily expressed by buying someone flowers and sending them cards... Once again, let us be thankful that corporate America has provided us with such an effective means of connecting with our loved ones...

Garrison Keillor shares in the joy...

I'm Back

I have been blocked from viewing the blog at school for a few weeks but now I am back baby!!

And just when I make it back there is good news. According to CNN Bush has reached a new low in approval ratings. I guess the reshuffling of the deck chairs did not do what he had hoped. That and $3 a gallon gas.

Have we started a Bachelor party countdown yet?

The importance of Public Spaces..

As told by Blair Kamin, Pulitzer Prize winning architechture critic for the Chicago Tribune.

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Not long ago, some big thinkers pronounced public space dead and fingered the computer as the culprit.

There was no point in waxing nostalgic about old-fashioned parks and plazas, they argued, when the Internet was allowing people to gather in the virtual realm of chat rooms irrespective of where they lived. "The real public space is invisible to the eye," the renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas proclaimed at a 1999 Harvard symposium.

No one must have conveyed this spurious bit of analysis to the hundreds of thousands of people who poured into Chicago's Federal Plaza, Washington's National Mall and other places around the nation in recent weeks to protest proposed federal laws that would crack down on illegal immigrants. They could not have been more visible.
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read more here...

Are Crazy Housing Prices in DC About to Come Down?

Let's hope so...


Is anyone going to post on this blog except me?... let's hope so, too...

Go ahead and do the crime

if you'd just as soon do the time...

I don't believe I conveyed this impression I have of Japan, but to visit that country (or at least Tokyo) is to experience a manner of public deportment absolutely different from the US. I know, big surprise. But now, we read that, even in prisons in Japan, people are polite.

Who knew?

Boy howdy, are Okies a bunch of hicks or what?

Present company excluded of course....

but still

Further commentary, irony included, here

The Moonie-Sushi connection

Who Knew?

So, everyone saw this, right?

We know what the stakes are, don't we?

Don't we?

via too many other blogs to count or cite...

Reactionary Religious Sect: You Must Tolerate Our Intolerance

or something like that...

This is who we are...

whaddaya think?

Still cheesed off that you can't read Paul Krugman for free anymore?

Well, if you are you're a filthy, liberal socialist and the 0.1% of people who control 99% of the wealth in this country are well within their rights to spit upon you...

Furthering your misfortunes, it seems that the Times Select model may be paying off for them.

Oh well... Congrats to the Times for making a few bucks off its Op-Ed page... So far as we know, they aren't yet engaging in pay-for-play boosterism a la Armstrong Williams (although I sometimes have my doubts about Tommy Friedman). On the other hand, it still remains only too easy to find people on the web who give it away free.

Democracy Texas style...

brown shirts have been replaced by white T-shirts...

I believe there's still a post on this blog somewhere from Colin about the time some guy tried to run Colin off the road b/c Colin had a Kerry bumpersticker on his car...

Just remember folks, New Zealand is still looking for 'skilled immigrants'...

don't the Germans have a word for 'shameful joy?'

Well, if the truth were told, I have to admit that I don't feel the least bit ashamed....

TNR's the plank highlights this great article...

Classic Hardball

I had to do a presentation recently that necessarily involved discussing Chris Matthews prominently... blech...

Well, thanks to dailykos.com or atrios or whoever pointed this to me, we can see some great shots of the whore that is Chris Matthews sucking at the emaciated teat of Tom Delay during commercial breaks...

gotta stick it to those 'woman know it alls'

There's hope for Colin and me yet!

They can now grow people new bladders. How much longer until they can whip up some new livers?

So long to the Hammer

Longtime readers of this blog might remember many posts a while back that were tracking the slow motion implosion of Tom Delay's career. These posts reflected the official position of this blog, fervently wishing for justice to be done in this case. Well, the bugman isn't in bars yet, but he is leaving Congress. Although Delay continues to deny any wrongdoing, attributing his decision to leave solely to political considerations, it is impossible not to draw the conclusion that he's getting out before his criminal cases go south.

Please join me in celebrating a great day for Houston, which will no longer be blighted by Delay's political machinations, but a great day for all America, where our notions of justice and political accountability are finally being vindicated.