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Some conservatives steamed about Condi Rice rumors ... The conservative Washington Times said a Romney choice of Rice would be a “flip flop” on abortion . In a Washington Post opinion piece, Jonathan Bernstein offers a simple argument . “Rice is pro-choice, and so she’s not eligible for the Republican presidential ticket,” he says. “A Republican Party that would accept a pro-choice candidate on the ticket would be a very different Republican Party from what we’ve seen in a long, long time.” 2 users liked this comment Rate a Thumb Up Rate a Thumb Down 0 users disliked this comment Scott    •   North Berwick, Maine Watching the crop of Republican candidates over the seeming forty years of the recent primaries has persuaded me for all time and beyond cavil or question of the wisdom and the justice alike of retroactive abortion up through the two hundred thirty-first, and counting, trimester. 2 users liked this comment Rate a Thumb Up Rate a Thumb Down 1 users disliked this comment Scot

T wo memorable weigh-ins, from 1994, on the Fifth Edition of The Columbia Encyclopedia : 1. In the  NYRoB , John Gross (1935-2011), a  very distinguished and universally-admired Englishman of letters  whose every  Oxford Book of   anthology I recommend without reservation 2. In the  WSJ ,  Bret Wallach , a distinguished American geographer. From which latter (allowing for odd formatting):  THE EDITORS SEEM IN FACT TO HAVE DECIDED THAT THE ENCYCLOPEDIA SHOULD ECHO OUR CULTURE NOT JUDGE IT SHOULD TELL US WHO'S FAMOUS NOT WHO'S IMPORTANT HENCE AN ENTRY ON TED TURNER BUT NOTHING ON AP GIANNINI WHO BUILT THE BANK OF AMERICA IS THE FOUNDER OF A CABLE NEWS NETWORK MORE IMPORTANT THAN THE FOUNDER OF THE FIRST BANK WELCOMING SMALL CUSTOMERS I DOUBT IT BUT MR TURNER IS UNDENIABLY BETTER KNOWN Bank me, Amadeo From Wikipedia on  Bank of America : The history of Bank of America dates back to 1904, when  Amadeo Giannini  founded the  Bank of Italy  in San Francisco in an effort to cater to i

From "Talk of the Town",  The New Yorker , September 10, 1932: Gagster M r. Al Boasberg, of our city, lays claim to being the country's leading gagman. He has a yearly income of between fifty and seventy-five thousand dollars coming in from his wheezes. A large, lumbering man with a serious expression, he has made a business of thinking up jokes and selling them for the past ten years. He sells to stage, vaudeville, movie, and radio comedians. You've probably heard dozens, maybe hundreds, of his gags. Possibly thousands; they're all around you. His customers include Harold Lloyd, Marie Dressler, Buster Keaton, Jack Oakie, Eddie Cantor, Ben Bernie, Phil Baker, Jack Benny, Jimmy Durante, Wheeler and Woolsey, and Burns and Allen. He has never sold to Jimmy Walker. In the early twenties, Mr. Boasberg, who is not quite forty now, worked in his father's jewelry store in Buffalo. One day he sold an actor a six-hundred-dollar diamond ring for three hundred in cash and

S een the gal with the Atlas Shrugged  tat  where grunting Ataboy's globe is  her  globe? A mammary not soon expunged, though unless you're libidinally-ideationally fifteen - at whatever age - and thus hot both above and below the larger, I hope, of your two necks for the Objectivist answer to the tramp stamp, it's in no sense a memory upgrade, i.e., your hard drive is guaranteed not to expand. Points for tastefully, as things go in these precincts, leaving the mountain-capped North Pole of her well-mothered earth discreetly greenhoused by the right hand of her natural law. The tag on the URL reads "rand-boob", one of the more extreme instances of nominative supererogation in such parts in quite a while. On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:44 PM, someone wrote: but Hank "rear"den wouldn't see it, would he? That's one thing capitalism's good at, as everyone from Marx at the foundation on up the Schumperstructure have noted - opening up all forms, aft

                                Shetland sheepdog gets called out for "cheating" after "running" with front legs only

McDonald's reveals special sauce recipe The chain's executive chef shows you how to make a Big Mac step by step at home. 'Not really a secret' 1 users liked this comment Rate a Thumb Up Rate a Thumb Down 1 users disliked this comment Scott    •   North Berwick, Maine   •    1 hour 51 minutes ago "But chef, now that your secret is out, isn't there is even less of a reason to patronize McDonald's?" Yes, Chef of the Past, what *she* just asked: isn't there is? And more to the point - *muhumunuhhumunuhhumunuh* - can your recipe "core a apple"?

N ot the Onion , alas; as seen atop the NYT home page; were I more the artist, I should do a self-rendering of my pointing finger up the arse of a wincing Uncle Sam; apparently, in soliciting the latest fruit of that hardiest of perennials of my life as an elite opinion-watcher, the call for a full-on reanimation of selective/universal involuntary service, the NYT must have found a vacation message returned by Charlie Rangel, primus inter pares among draft-yes men: OPINION » OP-ED | THOMAS E. RICKS Let’s Draft Our Kids Requiring national service will improve our military and save money. On Tue, Jul 10, 2012 at 2:57 PM, Someone  wrote: Are we starting with the kids of the 3 federal branches first? So we can see how good the kids of one branch are at following ... executive orders ... of the next at obeying martial law ... and of the third at avoiding courts-martial.*   *The "Honorable" and "Talented" Mr. Gingrich gets a deferment here, having gained extensive expe

Hitler - remember him? -   tried to protect   his Jewish WWI commander - even after  the Western front, and the later misunderstandings, &c.! After the end of the Kaiser roll in 1918 turned every German stomach into a sour Kraut, for whom only vintage 1939 kielbasa - with Russian dressing - could make them even think of hitting the Continental buffet again.  MAD magazine parody c. 1971  of  All in the Family , with flex-disc audio of acted version (I recall buying the issue at the time), in which Archie's fellow-bigot "old army buddy" pays a visit. [ YouTube ] 1990 "ironic" UK-satellite satire of 1950s American family sitcoms -  Heil Honey, I'm Home! ; eight episodes filmed, only one shown, after the resulting ... furor ... far eclipsed the tiny audience then watching on the pre-Sky satellite channel Galaxy (you needed a trademark square aerial to receive, it seems): The show centres on fictionalised versions of  Adolf Hitler  and  Eva Braun , who live n

From Gibb Songs by Joseph Brennan: Lori Balmer Lori Balmer — vocal Barry Gibb — guitar Maurice Gibb — bass, piano Colin Petersen — drums orchestra arranged by Bill Shepherd engineer: ? producer: Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb July 1968, IBC Studios, London TREACLE BROWN  Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb (1968) 23 July 1968 mono 2:52, lead vocal Lori Balmer A side, November 1968 FOUR FACES WEST  Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb (1968) 23 July 1968 mono 1:49, lead vocal Lori Balmer B side, November 1968 Lori Balmer, who recorded a single with the Bee Gees in 1966, moved with her family to England around the start of 1968, and now recorded her second and last single in one session. Both songs were played by the Bee Gees with Bill Shepherd orchestration. They have intriguingly strange lyrics very characteristic of the Bee Gees at this time. Wikipedia : In January 1968, following an invitation from  Barry Gibb , she travelled to  England  with her parents. They stayed with t

And "four score and seven" dollars was just about how much the Abe Lincoln Bandit "emancipated" from a Houston Wells Fargo : "It never ceases to amaze us, the different looks our bank robbers take on," Dunlap said. "The beard was something that was very unique about this particular individual, so that is why we nicknamed him with that particular nickname... two of the witnesses believe the beard was real and one believes it could potentially be fake so it's just hard to say till we get him in custody."

An actress performs a scene from the play "Vagina Monologues" written by Eve Ensler and directed by Naïma Zitane, in Rabat on June 16. Morocco's debate on sexual freedom was rekindled with the opening last month of the play in Rabat. (AFP Photo/Alice Dufour-Ferance)  RELATED ARTICLE:  MOROCCO SEX DEBATE RAGES AFTER IMAM'S DEATH CALL In my "answer play",  The Penis Manual Logs , (written under the joint  noms de coq  of Steve Stenciler and Jacques Offenoff) the corresponding character, one of 69 who read from their wanking registers*, *E.g., "2100 hours, 1/5/11: 9 O'Clock Wednesday wank, while watching Progressive commercial and fantasizing a text-messaging Flo's being impressed by my Anthony Wiener-like pics ( 'Now  that's  Extensive')  after  explaining to me her company's Safe-Sex Discount" waves not his bloody shorts but rather a c. 1974 Montgomery Ward women's-lingerie catalog.  I'd also like to see an Oprah-prod

...the editor of CRACKED.com (real name: Jason Pargin), who in his slashing critique of horse-race political journalism, " 5 Ways to Spot a B.S. Political Story in Under 10 Seconds ", asks, "Is Matt Drudge a cancer on the asshole of modern journalism?" I don't know. I'm just throwing it out there. You can say absolutely anything as long as you glue a question mark to the end, and nobody can complain. Wong's archive at CRACKED.com is well worth exploring in its abundance of fresh common-sense insights on issues otherwise logjammed by all the usual Big Names With Little Brains elsewhere.

Very Self-Aware Grandma Grifter Sarah Palin Calls Nancy Pelosi ‘Dingbat’ Everyone RELAX because Sarah Palin has officially weighed in on our freedom, and how it has been taken away by the Supreme Court and Obamacare. What Part of ‘Religious Freedom To Hold Whites-Only Bible Study’ Don’t You Understand, Alabama? Hop to it, Jews. Also, please try to stop infringing on Rev. William Collier’s religious liberty, by existing. Louisiana Was Totally Cool With Paying For Kids To Go To Religious Schools Until Other Religions Show Up Yes, apparently when you shove through legislation that allows religious organizations to receive state funding, Christians aren’t the only ones who want it — an Islamic school was one of 38 institutions approved for the voucher program, which is a huge problem for people who believe religion helps children so long as it is the religion of the swamp people they are representing. Why Does Chris Rock Hate Slavery So Much? Did you know that Chris Rock and Don Cheadle

V ia WFMU: AUGUST 02, 2011 The Ultimate Negative Christgau Review Excerpt from The Consumed Guide by Brian Joseph Davis The Consumed Guide is a text composed from thousands of negative words and phrases assembled from 13,090 reviews by Robert Christgau and turned into a single review: A born liar, showing all the imagination of an ATM in the process, a certain petty honesty and jerk-off humor, a man without a context, a pompous, overfed con artist, a preening panderer, mythologizing his rockin’ ‘50s with all the ignorant cynicism of a punk poser, a propulsive flagwaver attached to UNESCO lyrics about people all over the world joining hands, a simpleton, but also a genuine weirdo, a spoiled stud past his prime, so that while he was always sexy he wasn’t always seductive, a stinker, from Jesus-rock to studio jollity, a tedious ideologue with a hustle, a tough talker diddles teenpop’s love button. Act authentic for too long and it begins to sound like an act even if it isn’t... And much m

F rom " My Fabulous Boring Book Collection " by Bruce Handy: Salar the Salmon By Henry Williamson (1935). This novel about a salmon’s migratory journey has stood the test of time, having seen numerous editions since it was first published in England nearly 80 years ago. Praise from a reviewer on Amazon: “For those who enjoy an in-depth book on the life and loves of salmon, this book is for you.” Here is the dirty part (Page 177 in my copy): “The sight of the eggs and the taste of the water made Salar quiver. . . . His milt flowed from him in a mist.” According to Hal Borland  in the NYTBR  in 1969, Salar the Salmon is "the only fully successful fish novel I can recall." The author, naturalist Henry Williamson, was best known for Tarka the Otter , whose movie version , from 1979, featured a screenplay by Gerald Durrell, narration by Peter Ustinov and a soundtrack by noted screen composer David Fanshawe ( Flambards , &c.)

F rom the post " When Movies Kept Us Awake at Night " by the Serbian-born American poet Charles Simic: It has always seemed strange to me that writers and poets of my generation and slightly older say little about the influence of movies on their work, and yet our first knowledge of the world came from them. Thanks to the movies, we got acquainted with New York, Paris, London and scores of other cities and countries for the first time. We fought in hundreds of wars, clashed swords with Roman legions and Medieval knights, boxed in a ring, faced off with knives in dark alleys, escaped from orphanages, prisons, and chain gangs, met ghosts and visitors from outer space, had ourselves hung by the neck, executed by firing squads, pardoned at the last minute from the guillotine and the electric chair. We danced with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, consorted in after hours gambling joints with gangsters and their molls, smoked opium in Hong Kong, worked as spies, private detectives,

Man pays off mortgage with 62,000 pennies Thomas Daigle wanted to make sure that his final house payment would be "memorable." How much they weighed users disliked this comment Scott    •    North Berwick, Maine    •    1 min 24 secs ago "[The Daigles] walked into Milford Federal Savings and Loan Association...with 62,000 pennies in two steel crates weighing approximately 400 pounds apiece." Since post-1982 pennies weigh 2.5 grams, the pennies weigh just under 342 pounds. That leaves "approximately" 458 pounds for the steel crates, or an average of 229 pounds each (I assume the "400 pounds apiece" refers to the crates *after* their penny-loading). That's some strong reinforcement. I must see how invulnerable I with my 220-pound frame feel after donning 295-pound shirt and pants.