Have a party.

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Only decent monster to come out of the original Fiend Folio.

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They make me happy.

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Here.

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I never really have. I just did. It's, oh, what's the word?, really, really, very really bad.

I don't even mean I dislike his politics. Of course I dislike his politics. But I mean -- it's just a bad blog.

I feel this blog is very often very crappy. Some days I post a minimum of original content; other days I can only manage a couple of lame wisecracks. Sometimes I attempt some sort of commentary but quickly realize I'm just repeating myself.

But... Atrios doesn't seem to sweat that. Check out this, um, economy of posting in the past couple of days:

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Posted by: Ace at 03:42 PM | Comments (22)
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I don't mind arguments here by those with opposing views (unlike many liberal sites), but I have to draw the line at thread-jacking. If you have something to say on-topic, you can say so. But I've had it with troll posting completely off-topic screeds in a thread. Often these are very long and make it a pain in the ass to scroll past to actually comment in a thread.

Basically, this is just non-commercial spam and I'll be deleting such massive off-topic screeds in the future. If you've really got to get the word out about some 1200 word opus you've written, start your own blog and cultivate an audience. Don't hijack mine.

Brief OT posts -- especially of the "Ace, have you seen this link yet?" -- are of course allowed and quite welcome.

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This is a pretty damn good book. Fun and harsh. I sure hope he actually shows up for the show today.

At Rightalk at 4:05 PM Eastern Time.

Call in 866-884-TALK.

Posted by: Ace at 10:14 AM | Comments (20)
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Rose to 0.9 in October.

I have no idea of what that means, but I'm told it's a good thing.

A widely watched measure of future economic activity rose in October, offsetting a notable drop in September largely tied to hurricanes that swamped U.S. Gulf states, a private research group said Thursday.

The Conference Board said that its Index of Leading Economic Indicators, which tries to gauge future economic growth, rose 0.9 percent in October.

The Conference Board's coincident index - a measure of current economic activity - rose 0.1 percent.

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Posted by: Ace at 09:45 AM | Comments (15)
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A poll over at Poliburo Diktat.

Yes, I'm nominated (thank you!) for Whoreblogging, but I'm being creamed by Allah's favorite, DW vs. A Bunch of Four-Year-Olds, and of course what is, without any question, the single greatest, most important blog-post ever -- LGF's superimposition of his own retyping of the Burkett forgery in Microsoft Word over the faxed copy from CBS' website. It's really a no-brainer -- there's your winner, and it was never even close.

Still, it's an honor to be nominated and all that. I'd like to thank my agent, Morty "Stig" Fishbein, for suggesting that the Whoreblogging vehicle would be the perfect venue for my, errr, talents, and for showing me what a "Nasty Adolf" was.

There are a dozen or so worthies on the list, all worth reading, if you missed them the first time. (And all linked, of course.)

Posted by: Ace at 09:32 AM | Comments (12)
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Worth a read. She slams St. Andrew of the Sacred "Heart-Ache" along the way, too.

The U.S. military recently uncovered alleged evidence of torture in Iraqi-run Baghdad prisons, including what appeared to be a torture chamber in an Iraqi Ministry of Interior detention facility. The Sunni reaction to these discoveries poses a considerable problem for proponents of the anti-American “torture narrative”: The Sunnis are calling on the U.S. military to correct the situation! “I wish the Americans would go to [the prisons] and find out about it,” former detainee Sadiq Abdul Razzaq Samarrai told the New York Times.

This is bizarre behavior indeed. According to Andrew Sullivan, Seymour Hersh, and other proponents of the “torture narrative,” Americans are the leading sadists in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Cuba. For the Sunnis to ask the Americans to protect them against alleged Shiite abuse would seem to them as delusional as a Jewish prisoner in Auschwitz appealing to Hitler for salvation.

But the Iraqi reaction to the recent torture allegations defies the conventional “torture” wisdom in more ways than one. It turns out that the safest prisons in Iraq are those enjoying regular American oversight. Another former detainee, Amar Sami Samarrai (cousin of Sadiq Abdul), credits his safe treatment to the fact that the Americans had gone through his detention center near Baghdad four times during his 38-day stay, according to the New York Times.

St. Andrew of the Sacred "Heart-Ache" snipes "We led by example, didn't we?"

Apparently he's forgotten the long history of real torture in Iraq -- stuff like acid showers and rape-rooms -- and thinks that torture in the Middle East didn't begin until the subretarded Lyddie England started the game that's sweeping the nation, Naked Arab Jenga.

Thanks to RCL.

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