And here's the thing: the guy only got suspended for three years.

He told a mentally-troubled patient she'd have to have sex with him in parking garages for "treatment" and only got a three-year suspension.

Well, that's Britain for you, I guess.

Bonus:

Mrs W told the panel that Dr Manley said he could only justify what he was doing by treating the sessions as sex therapy and charging her £35 an hour.

That's like $90 bucks an hour for having sex with the guy. I hope she at least got foreplay and snuggling comped. Only seems fair.

Thanks to Scott.

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It's so hhhhhot I imagine I'll have another embarassing dream tonight.

Thanks to Willie B.

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Just passed three million individual daily unique hits on this moronblog since it was started, and more than 5.6 million page views.

Let me thank once again my esteemed cobloggers, Dr. Reo Symes, LauraW., Harry Callahan and Tanker for keeping this blog interesting when I've got nothing and/or I'm out spending your "bandwidth donations" on Siamese-twin whores named "Yin" and "Yang" who, yes!, do in fact share a single set of genitals.

It's great... now I can fail to satisfy two women in the time it used to take me to fail to satisfy one. Money well spent, and I thank all of you -- donors and readers, because readers keep me in that crazy blog-ad money -- for making this dream come true.

Gross Oversight Update: It seems I forgot to thank some other folks -- all the guest-bloggers who have filled in for me while I was away at the rehab center entertaining sick children with my dead-on impression of James Mason.

Thanks to Dave from Garfield Ridge, Hoke Malokey, Rob From Say Anything, Lisa From Urban Grind, The New Vintage, Karol from Alarming News, Jenifer From Demure Thoughts, John From Wuzzadem, Slublog, Soxblog, the Unpopulist (he of the double Insta-link), and, man, it's been a while, anyone I'm leaving out. You guys all went bananas on the site when I was away.

And, while we're at it, thanks to George and Riehlworld View for putting together my new logo.

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Drink, drink, and be merry, and drink some more. Adult stem cells -- not those controversial embryonic ones -- can be used to repair once-irrepairable liver damage.

It's never been a better time to join in the craze that's sweeping the nation, blackout-drunk binge drinking.

And for inspiration and a code of living similar to Bushido, the Samurai code of honor, except not so pussy, we've finally got a chance to read the autobiography of Vinny Fuckin' Falcone.

It's the autobiography that promises full value for your reading.

Hat-tips: Ogre Gunner for the first, See-Duby for the second.

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With lots of other writers commenting too.

I'm anti-Miers, but if Hugh Hewitt has been justifiably criticized for being a tad too stalwart in defending Bush's pick, certainly will commits the opposite sin with rhetoric like this:

Such is the perfect perversity of the nomination of Harriet Miers that it discredits, and even degrades, all who toil at justifying it.

...

Miers's advocates tried the incense defense: Miers is pious. But that is irrelevant to her aptitude for constitutional reasoning. The crude people who crudely invoked it probably were sending a crude signal to conservatives who, the invokers evidently believe, are so crudely obsessed with abortion that they have an anti-constitutional willingness to overturn Roe v. Wade with an unreasoned act of judicial willfulness as raw as the 1973 decision itself.

Crude/crudely/crude/crudely, all in the same sentence? I've been trying to make the case that anti-Miers folks aren't necessarily elitists, whatever the hell that means, but could George Will make any plainer than he opposes her, and her supporters, on snobs vs. slobs grounds? It's Con-law Caddyshack, with George Will starring as Judge Smails.

Meanwhile... RedState, which has had quite a few bona-fide scoops over the years, says that some WH personnel are quietly starting a second nomination vetting process, just in case Miers goes down or must be withdrawn.

To respond to Raoul Ortega, who writes:

It's really sad when not only are people who aren't wacko Leftists actually taking Chuck Schumer statements at face value, but welcoming them and considering them to be good news for their side.

I don't take Chuck Schumer at face value necessarily, but on something like this, where a proposition can easily be proven or disproven in a matter of weeks, and someone's prediction revealed as either true or false or just plain absurd, I do tend to give it more credence. I don't think he said that Roberts' nomination was in trouble, for example.

More importantly, as a personal matter, you're just crazy if you think I, or many other anti-Miers folks, are delighting in Bush's and Miers' troubles. I'm sure there are some people for whom being proven right is so important that they'd rather be vindicated than to have some greater good. I'm really not one of those; my predictive powers are so poor I have no pride in them.

Further, I'm not over-the-top against Miers. I think it's possible she'll be a competent, somewhat conservative SC Justice; I just don't think it's a better than 30% chance, and I'm a bit peeved that at this historic moment we are being to asked to make what is, in gambling terms, a sucker's bet, especially because there were so many better bets out there.

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It's time for regime change at the world's own Stasi on the East River:

THE United Nations withheld some of the most damaging allegations against Syria in its report on the murder of Rafik Hariri, the former Lebanese Prime Minister, it emerged yesterday.

The names of the brother of Bashar al-Assad, President of Syria, and other members of his inner circle, were dropped from the report that was sent to the Security Council.

The confidential changes were revealed by an extraordinary computer gaffe because an electronic version distributed by UN officials on Thursday night allowed recipients to track editing changes.

The mistaken release of the unedited report added further support to the published conclusion that Syria was behind Mr HaririÂ’s assassination in a bomb blast on ValentineÂ’s Day in Beirut. The murder of Mr Hariri touched off an international outcry and hastened SyriaÂ’s departure from Lebanon in April after a 29-year pervasive military presence.

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It raised questions about political interference by Kofi Annan, the UN Secretary- General, who had promised not to make any changes in the report.

One crucial change, apparently made after the report was submitted to the UN chief, removed the name of President al-AssadÂ’s brother, Maher, his brother-in-law, Assef al-Shawkat, and other high-ranking Syrian officials.

The final, edited version quoted a witness as saying that the plot to kill Mr Hariri was hatched by unnamed “senior Lebanese and Syrian officials”. But the undoctored version named those officials as “Maher al-Assad, Assef Shawkat, Hassan Khalil, Bahjat Suleyman and Jamal al-Sayyed”.

The deleted names represent the inner core of the Syrian regime.

Has there ever been a more corrupt piece of shit than Kofi Annan? Where the fuck did they find this vermin?

Thanks to Doug. Link to full article at LGF (linked above).

Apologies to Dr. Reo Symes and all readers... as he already covered all this Saturday.

It's a big story, in my opinion, so I won't take it down; let's just call it a Howell Raines-like "flooding the zone" effort.

'Sides, weekends have depressed readership. Because if you're reading a blog on a weekend, you must be pretty depressed.

Here's a link to Dr. Reo Symes post, which is longer and more thoughtful than my cussing-out of Kofi Annan.

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She plans on being arrested.

She vows that this time photos of her being hauled away by beefy stripper/cops will reveal her crotchless panties, which she says she'll be wearing as a symbolic jab at the "rudderless" Bush Administration.

The woman is a national treasure.

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Another list.

The fun part is just making sure you've read an acceptable number of them.

Most readers will have their numbers padded a little by the inclusion of William Gibson's Neuromancer.

Okay, well-written, kinda-sorta created a subgenre of light fiction... but one of the 100 novels best of all time? One of the best 100 Sci-Fi Novels, most likely. But just one of the plain-old best novels?

I don't know. I think these lists try to throw in surprise entries just to make them interesting.

I have a question: How many people have actually finished Gravity's Rainbow? Is it worth it? Because the first 100 pages are a hard slog, and there's another 700 after that.

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MSNBC:

President Bush Monday named Ben Bernanke, chairman of his Council of Economic Advisers, to succeed Alan Greenspan as chairman of the Federal Reserve, often described as the nationÂ’s second-most powerful job. Â…

“He is trained for the job, he worked as a [Fed. Reserve] governor and when he was governor he spent a lot of time looking at practical issues around monetary policy,” said Ethan Harris, chief U.S. economist at Lehman Bros. “He has hung around the Fed for many years as an adviser. He certainly has the respect of many in the institution, so the handoff is pretty smooth.”

Glad Bush went ‘smooth choice’ on his Chief banker pick. That other guy they were talking about, the one who advocates putting your all money in an old coffee can and burying it out in the tomato garden? That guy had ‘confirmation battle’ written all over him.

Update: Bernanke's econ. theory contributions and intellectual leanings get fleshed out nicely by Marginal Revolution.

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...at least at the moment, barring a reassuring performance at her hearings.

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