Yeah. Because it's not like I don't get to see enough humans in the wild during my daily routine.

London Zoo unveiled a new exhibition -- eight humans prowling around wearing little more than fig leaves to cover their modesty.

The "Human Zoo" is intended to show the basic nature of human beings as they frolick throughout the August bank holiday weekend.

"We have set up this exhibit to highlight the spread of man as a plague species and to communicate the importance of man's place in the planet's ecosystem," London Zoo said.

I do love that so many on the left have adopted the nuanced, complex philosophy of Agent Smith from The Matrix.

The scantily-clad volunteers will be treated as animals and kept amused at the central London zoo with games and music.

"I actually think the fig leaves will be enough to cover us up, it's no worse than a swimming pool," said volunteer Simon Spiro, 19, from New Malden, south of the British capital.

Genius. All these master-degree-holding biologists and zoologists have finally discovered the eight year old premise of Survivor.

Don't forget the eating challenges, guys. Everyone loves those.

Thanks, again appropriately enough, to The Warden.

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Whenever I'm going to shoot off some potent 12 guage shotgun rounds, I know I like the comfort and control of bracing the but right up snug against my nardsac.

This certified atom-splitter seems to agree. In fact, this soon-to-be-Nobel-Larueate agrees twice.

Thanks to OgreGunner.

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The topic? US foreign policy, of course -- Arianna's forte (forte is a Latin term meaning "something about which someone knows very little but twitters on about ad nauseum").

They'll be hashing out whether it's "interventionist" or "imperialist." Giggle.

INTERVIEWER: And what is your prediction for this fight?

CLUBBER LANG: My prediction?

INTERVIEWER: Yes, your prediction.

CLUBBER LANG (turns menacingly to camera): Pain.

Okay, so it's not really a titan versus a titan, but that's the quote from Clash of the Titans.

I'd've preferred it if the quote was "A Titan versus a brain-damaged cartoon chipmunk," but I have to stick with canon material.

If I were Hanson, I'd just pretend to be wealthy, bisexual, and in need of a beard-wife. That should distract Arianna.

Then again, small shiny objects distract Arianna, so maybe he should just wear some sparkly bangles.

Thanks to the Rocketeer.

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And he says that as an outspoken non-fan of Weld.

For all the criticisms of RINO's, let's face it, in some states only a RINO has any sort of shot of being elected to any statewide office. You can have your principles or you can have your victories, and in cases where both are possible (like, say, with Pat Toomey's bid to knock off Alren Specter last cycle), you should take your shot at both. (Which Bush and the Republican Establishment did not.)

But in liberal New York -- represented in the Senate by popular Senators Hillary! Rodham and Chuck Schumer -- an anti-tax social liberal is as close as you're likely to come to a genuine conservative. At least as far as actually winning a high office.

Thanks to the Blogometer.

PS: They'll never outlaw abortion in New York, even if Roe v. Wade is overturned and that policy-decision devolves to the state where it belongs, so supporting a pro-choice Republican is a zero-cost move. It costs you nothing. If 47 states outlawed or severely restricted abortion, you could still get third-trimester abortions in New York, always and forever.

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Can you define deviancy any further down?:"

As Maisha Pollard passed out fliers in downtown Denver in June asking for information about the shooting death of her brother, Javad Marshall-Fields, the shirt of one passerby shocked her.

"I could not believe it said, 'Stop snitchin,' " she said.

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The man was silent as he took a flier, walked off and tossed it away.

Pollard, local ministers and family members of Vivian Wolfe held a news conference Wednesday urging people to stop buying the T-shirts that they say shed a negative light on the slain couple and others who help law enforcement.

Marshall-Fields and his fiancée, Wolfe, both 22, were gunned down on June 20. Marshall-Fields was set to testify in the trial of Robert Ray, who has been charged in connection with the 2004 shooting death of Gregory Vann.

"They were honorable and caring," Pollard said.

The "stop snitchin' " T-shirts, which Aurora police say are anti-police and popular with younger kids, come in various designs and can be bought throughout the metro area. One T-shirt purchased Wednesday at the Underground Station in the Aurora Mall was designed with bullet holes and bull's-eyes on the front. An R.I.P. logo was placed on the back of the shirt, which sells for $24.99.

The experience of blacks in this country has impelled them, understandably enough, to create an adversarial counter-culture against the white majority.

But this counter-culture now seems almost entirely one of criminality and nihilism. There are surely ways to be authentically black, and to challenge the white power structure (such as it may be), without the glorification of crime and mayhem.

Thanks to The Warden, appropriately enough.

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Indeed:

Many warmhearted and mildly-attentive Americans say the president should have invited Sheehan to his kitchen table in Crawford for a cup of coffee and a serving of that low-calorie staple of democratic sentimentality -- ``dialogue.'' Well.

Since her first meeting with the president, she has called him a ``lying bastard,'' ``filth spewer,'' ``evil maniac,'' ``fuehrer'' and the world's ``biggest terrorist'' who is committing ``blatant genocide'' and ``waging a nuclear war'' in Iraq. Even leaving aside her not entirely persuasive contention that someone else concocted the obviously anti-Israel and inferentially anti-Semitic elements of one of her recent e-mails -- elements of a sort nowadays often found woven into ferocious left-wing rhetoric -- it is difficult to imagine how the dialogue would get going.

He: ``Cream and sugar?''

She: ``Yes, please, filth spewer.''

Do Democrats really want to embrace her variation of the Michael Moore and ``Fahrenheit 9/11'' school of political discourse? Evidently, yes, judging by the attendance of 12 Democratic senators at that movie's Washington premiere in June 2004, and by the lionizing of Moore at the Democratic Convention -- the ovation, the seating of him with Jimmy Carter.

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Sort of like going to a cancer care unit and laughing at people for smoking:

I'm not buying that stuff you heard at the top of the show about the anti-war protest at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (search) being a vigil for the soldiers.

The vigil, anti-war protest, was organized by Code Pink (search), a rabidly anti-war, anti-Bush organization which feels no compunction about standing around outside the Walter Reed hospital with signs like "Maimed for Lies" and "Enlist Here to Die for Halliburton."

This is not a vigil to support the men and women inside the hospital who are trying to figure out how to walk with new prosthetic limbs and in many cases are anxious to get back into the field with their comrades in their units deployed in the field in Iraq.

This is tantamount to spitting on soldiers when they returned home from Vietnam (search). It is the rough equivalent of calling soldiers baby killers. Code Pink has absolutely no shame in staging this protest. Protest in Crawford, Texas; protest at the White House; protest at Congress; protest in front of any organization which you think was part of the decision to go to war, but cut the injured soldiers some slack.

It is nothing but the pure venom and viciousness of these anti-war groups at work here.

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Yes, that's right, he was on the receiving end.

Have we learned nothing from Catherine the Great?

Those who do not learn from history are doomed to be death-humped by a priapic stallion.

He should have settled for a hoofjob.

The Headline That Should Have Been Update: Thanks to Lenore for the suggestion. I like the new headline better.

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Professor No-Traffic has a good link-rich and email-enhanced discussion of SUV's.

As a Republican, I'm against the well-nigh Inquisitorial hatred the left has for SUV's. On the other hand... they have become popular partly due to a strange government-regulation regime that incentivizes the production of very large, very low gas-mileage vehicles. Which is hardly the direction we would like to go in.

Not saying we need more government regulation, but we may wish to examine whether the current regulation regime is rational in the least.

It's hard to enforce higher fuel efficiency standards for SUV's, with the big three American auto-makers still struggling in an extraodinarily competitive environment, and with the SUV one of their few success stories in the past ten years.

Still-- do SUV's need to be so large, heavy, and fuel-inefficient? If they had 10% less of the size and weight, they'd still be pretty damn big and roomy -- and still very safe, still being the behemoths of the road (excluding actual trucks and semi-trailers) -- and would, presumably, get 10% additional (or a little better) fuel economy.

With so many of these suckers on the road, 10% additional mpg would make a nontrivial difference in the demand for petroleum. Not enough to bring oil prices down to historic norms, but enough to back them off of historic highs.

My interest in this is about 5% about the environment (an overblown issue, I think) and 95% about the economy and national-security jeopardy we find ourselves in when we continue using so much more petroleum, bought from largely hostile states.

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He called Islam itself a "terrorist organization" which I think is far too broad a smear, and, as the State Department might say, "not helpful."

He himself admitted the statement was "too broad" and that he sometimes engages in "hyperbole." Which, I guess, I do as well.

He does have a new gig, though. He'll be on, yes, Rightalk radio from 12 to 1 Eastern Time every weekday, beginning August 29th.

Wow. A bit of a coup for Rightalk, and a little controversy too.

In case you missed this week's show, you can click on that link and look for the repeats of Hoist the Black Flag. We had an interesting discussion with Captain Ed of Captains Quarters about Able Danger. And also how he got the nickname "Captain."

It involves getting a license-plate holder deeming his lame ride the "Carship Enterprise."

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