Just watching it now... figured it must be good enough to link, sight unseen.

Thanks to Craig.

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Dave just wrote on this site that he was against internet gambling. For a while, I was too. I was very anti-gambling, owing to the fact that Atlantic City casinos had always beaten me during college.

But I've succumbed to the trend that is (perhaps sadly) sweeping the nation, and I'm now playing poker on-line, for money.

Had a great run last night. I'd built $200 to $450, and then lost all of my winnings (and then some) over a period of three or four bad days.

Last night I tried something new, and went from around $160 to $701 (yeahp, seven-oh-one; I wouldn't stop until I'd cleared the seven hundred dollar mark) in the best tear of my life.

I'll try not to let it get out of control. Hey, it was just a good run; everyone has them, I guess. But man, was it fun.

If you want to do this... I'd probably suggest that you don't (I've taken enough of your money in donations and, to a far lesser extent, t-shirt sales), but if you want to, make sure you at least read Miller & Sklanksy's Small Stakes Hold'em before committing any money to one of these sites.

So That's Why You Weren't Blogging Update: Well, no. I was out at Father's Day stuff yesterday. A barbecue. When I say I made money "last night," meant late last night. Yes, I could have put up a couple of posts, I guess, and I guess I should have. I'll try to not take whole days off anymore.

Karol suggests I give out a code in case anyone wants to sign up (then I get a little money for recommending a friend). I don't want to do that, because I don't want to encourage it-- 90% of gamblers lose.

But, if you do have the jones and wouldn't mind letting me "sign you up," you can shoot me an email.

But I really don't recommend it. I'd recommend it, maybe, if any of these dirty sonsabitches took out ads on my site rather than just filling up my comments with ONLINE SLOT MACHINES spamvertisements.

Well, I still wouldn't recommend it. It's a vice and a costly and time-consuming one.

Unless you're on a tear.

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Here. Someone asked about the Evan Coyne Maloney show, but right now they're replaying the Jay Nordlinger interview.

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Kaus digests an article that annoyed the hell out of me when I read it last night.

This NYT hack claims that conservatives are promoting the new Edward Klein anti-Hillary book, the one containing the ridiculous claim about Clinton raping his wife.

True enough, you can order it through conservative book clubs, in the "anit-Clinton" section, as you would expect. But you can also order it through Amazon and PriceOwl.

In fact, the rape claim contained in the book immediately caused most conservatives to dismiss it as trash.

How biased is the New York Times? Well, let me put it this way: even liberal super-hack Joe Conason acknoweldges that conservatives are treating it as embarassing and not fit for discussion:

Indeed, the instant revulsion of publications and writers not necessarily known for elevated standards indicates just how terrible Mr. Klein’s book is—and how irresponsible Penguin Group was to publish it. The Drudge Report’s disclosure of the rape charge sent nauseous waves through the right-wing blogosphere.

"This is sick, people," cried a blogger at Redstate.org. "I have had just about enough of these so-called ‘insider’ true stories that are really nothing more than smear jobs, regardless of the target," said another Republican blogger, whose complaint echoed many more.

Even Page Six, the New York Post’s Clinton-bashing gossip column, derided the book as a "hatchet-job" and the author as "error-prone." The tabloid mocked Mr. Klein for identifying a happily married former classmate as Mrs. Clinton’s rumored lesbian lover. He never spoke with this lady—who denied the smear to the Post—and he repeatedly misspells her surname, which he evidently copied from another book. The New York Times management must cringe whenever Mr. Klein’s former employment there is cited as his main journalistic credential.

So, conservative bloggers are revolted by the idiotic slander, the conservative tabloid New York Post dismisses it as an amateurish smear, and even Smokin' Joe Conason acknowledges this.

But not the New York Times. Oh, no. As far as their liberal-cocooned Upper West Side audience is concerned, we're "promoting" the Dickens out of it.

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Getting out the word:

Here we thought Sen. Dick Durbin had a cushy job that he likes. Truth told, he's auditioning for the job of Speechwriter/Silly Similes at Amnesty International.

Last month the human rights group called on the U.S. to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. But it was the organization's breathy rhetoric--it called the prison "the gulag of our times"--that got all the attention. Amnesty was roundly criticized for likening a prison for terrorists to Soviet concentration camps. Even Jimmy Carter said the group went too far--eventually its executive director admitted the exaggeration was "not an exact or literal analogy."

So Amnesty looked clever--until it looked clumsy. But the group got what it wanted: a lot of attention. Indeed, leaders of Amnesty acknowledged that that was the goal all along.

Enter Durbin, second-ranking Democrat in the U.S. Senate. In a Senate speech Tuesday, Durbin raked Bush administration officials over the treatment of prisoners at Guantanamo. He read an account by an unnamed FBI agent of the alleged treatment of a prisoner who was "chained hand and foot in a fetal position to the floor, with no chair, food or water." The prisoner, the agent said, had been subject to extremely hot and cold temperatures, and loud rap music.

And then Durbin said this: "If I read this to you and did not tell you that it was an FBI agent describing what Americans had done to prisoners in their control, you would most certainly believe this must have been done by Nazis, Soviets in their gulags, or some mad regime--Pol Pot or others--that had no concern for human beings. Sadly, that is not the case. This was the action of Americans in the treatment of their prisoners."

Nazis? Soviets? Pol Pot? Mad regimes?

Durbin's comparison of U.S. interrogators to governments that together killed millions of people makes him look desperate for attention. Well, he's created a lot of discussion about Dick Durbin. We suspect that was the goal all along.

Perhaps, though, citizens should be grateful. At least Durbin has stopped repeating that odd little joke about President Lincoln--that he must have been Jewish because his first name was Abraham and he was shot in the temple.

We know what Durbin thinks about the treatment of Guantanamo prisoners. So what's the proper treatment of our coverage-hungry senior senator when he displaces the ever-present microphone long enough to insert his foot in his mouth? Ignore him. That would be torture.

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A new organization that just loves "torture" and "gulags."

Sign me up. Give me my laminate.

Thanks to Joe.

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Fucking asshole.

NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Contains pictures of real death camps, probably of the type that Dick Durbin would engage in a little apologia over, as they're not American and one was even conducted by "peasant reformers" just interested in redistributing a little land.

Hot Video of DICK: Watch this filthy little twat make his accusations.

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Anger is an energy, but it doesn't win elections:

The session took an awkward turn when witness Ray McGovern, a former intelligence analyst, declared that the United States went to war in Iraq for oil, Israel and military bases craved by administration "neocons" so "the United States and Israel could dominate that part of the world." He said that Israel should not be considered an ally and that Bush was doing the bidding of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. "Israel is not allowed to be brought up in polite conversation," McGovern said. "The last time I did this, the previous director of Central Intelligence called me anti-Semitic." . . . At Democratic headquarters, where an overflow crowd watched the hearing on television, activists handed out documents repeating two accusations -- that an Israeli company had warning of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that there was an "insider trading scam" on 9/11 -- that previously has been used to suggest Israel was behind the attacks. The event organizer, Democrats.com, distributed stickers saying "Bush lied/100,000 people died." One man's T-shirt proclaimed, "Whether you like Bush or not, he's still an incompetent liar," while a large poster of Uncle Sam announced: "Got kids? I want yours for cannon fodder."

Conyers's firm hand on the gavel could not prevent something of a free-for-all; at one point, a former State Department worker rose from the audience to propose criminal charges against Bush officials. Early in the hearing, somebody accidentally turned off the lights; later, a witness knocked down a flag. Matters were even worse at Democratic headquarters, where the C-SPAN feed ended after just an hour, causing the activists to groan and one to shout "Conspiracy!"

Even Dana Milbank, a reliably partisan liberal hack, couldn't help but noticed that the Democrats of late seem to be very concerned about their precious bodily fluids.

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Well, John Thune comments.

"Straight-talker" John McCain refuses to.

Thanks to Dave.

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Yeahp, Dianna, who you've seen around the blogs, has up and started her own blog.

She's taking on Dick Durbin.

Big Stupid Dick Update: Sweet, savory venom from Michelle Malkin.

Great post. Best part: All the "no comments" from the brave Democrats, including even Joe Lieberman.

New Dem Ad: John Hawkins proposes a new motto.

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