Ed Meese, on the Patriot Act and the American Library Association

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Mr. MEESE: Well, first of all, there's never--it's never even been used against--in the case of a library, as was indicated the other day by the attorney general. Furthermore, I think librarians, unfortunately, some of them at least, are more interested in allowing pornography to go to children than they are fighting terrorism.

The rest is here.

we interrupt this program

hm: I'm in all black today.
me: Those stockings are charcoal.
hm: That's the same as black.
me: No, it's lighter than black.
hm: Not when you first put it in the fire.

Doomed. I'm doomed.

the inevitable descent into catblogging

( Pidget, happy wondercat full of love[TM], defending the homeland against all enemies domestic and foreign )

second digression (they're flying fast, folks)

me (to husband): I talked to [HM's teacher] after school for a moment and she's surrounded by this crowd of third graders bouncing off each other like charged particles and she had this sweet look of pained resignation on her face, like a renaissance madonna...
HM: Oh, she always looks like that.

hey, concept.

Cage match. Moral imperatives.

Bob Novak and Christopher Hitchens.

I don't know about you, but I'd pay large.

words fail me.

Rush Limbaugh insisted Wednesday he had "no racist intent whatsoever" in saying the media have overrated the Philadelphia Eagles' Donovan McNabb because they want to see a black quarterback succeed.

In fact, the conservative commentator said he must have been right; otherwise, the comments would not have sparked such outrage.

Limbaugh offered no apology, and McNabb said it was too late for one anyway.

"I'm sure he's not the only one that feels that way, but it's somewhat shocking to actually hear that on national TV," the NFL star said. "An apology would do no good because he obviously thought about it before he said it."

Before McNabb led the Eagles to a 23-13 victory over the Buffalo Bills on Sunday, Limbaugh said on ESPN's pregame show that he did not think McNabb was as good as he was perceived to be.

"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well," Limbaugh said. "There is a little hope invested in McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."


Maybe the press is just intimidated by the bone through his nose or the fact that as an african-american man his identikit picture (they all have one, don't they?) looks like Jesse Jackson, both earlier non-racist observations on minority life by the inimitable Mr. Limbaugh (who may be a draft-dodging serially married former welfare cheat who drinks french wine, but dammit, he's white).

Of course, he's also a talentless racist piece of demagogic trash.

If it bothers him that I would say that, I must be right.

boy, them administration officials sure do talk purty

let me translate:

Attorney General John Ashcroft would not likely appoint a special counsel to investigate the charge that a Bush administration official leaked the name of a secret CIA employee to reporters, another administration official told Fox News on Wednesday.

Only two circumstances might prompt the attorney general to make such an appointment, the official explained: either a clear conflict of interest, for example if the current investigation were to focus on an official to whom Justice staffers reported; or if the affair were to become such a political issue that it would be "in the public interest" to hand off the probe to an outside team.

We're not going to let anyone actually investigate this, unless Karl decides that someone in his base cares, in which case we'll appoint an independent counsel and give them all the cheerful cooperation we've given the 9/11 commission.

the silence of the libertarians part 2

State Democrats lashed out against Gov. Craig Benson and the Free State Project, which said Wednesday it wants to bring 20,000 libertarians to New Hampshire to influence public policy.

Benson said Wednesday he was excited New Hampshire was chosen out of 10 states for the project, which wants to minimize government's role and strengthen individual liberties.

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In a news release, the state Democratic Party also said the Free State Project wants to eliminate fire departments, environmental protections and stop the state from accepting federal health care for seniors.

Free State Project founder Jason Sorens, 26, called those statements a distortion.

"None of it is on target. I'm not sure where they got those things," said Sorens. "We support strong environmental protections to protect people from pollution. To say we support eliminating public schools is incorrect."

Sorens said the free-staters are a pro-business group, which wants community schools funded through tuition and community contribution.


Hey, we don't support eliminating public schools. We just support making them all private and not paying for them.

How much you wanna bet these people pretend they're John Galt when they're having sex?

I swear, if they would just give copies of decently written strokebooks to these Republican kids this problem would be eliminated in a generation.