Quick, before it gets deleted:

It's become more and more apparent to me over the past five years that all the activism and non-violent protesting in the world will do precisely squat. When you're dealing with evil people who have no shame, the old rules of the game don't and, indeed, can't apply if you have any hope for success. Hundreds of thousands of people have marched, millions of letters have been written, tens of millions of votes cast, and hundreds of trillions of electrons expended pontificating on blogs...for nothing. Nothing has changed. Nothing will change. Not unless it comes in the form of something akin to the French Revolution.

We need terror. We need horror. We need the streets running awash in rivers of blood of these thugs and criminals and zealots. Activism didn't prevent 60,000 deaths in Vietnam. All the activism of the Civil Rights era has gotten African Americans precisely nowhere. Segregation may not be the law of the land anymore, but it's still the de facto state of America.

When y'all want to start throwing molotovs and sniping from windows come and talk to me. Until then, I will be content to retire, be a hermit, and laugh at everyone. Even then, I may still just feel like laughing as the world falls apart around me, but at least I'll be willing to listen.

Believe it or not, this Kosmonaut fears she's losing her grip on reality:

My mental state is collapsing and deteriorating almost daily. It's so consistent you could practically graph it.

Yes, they have a machine for that and everything. It's called an EEG. And you should see this other cool machine they have... it delivers the most pleasant electric shocks to the frontal lobe of your brain. Some people swear by it!

Thanks to Bareknuckle Politics.

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Like, for example, when they need to get voters to the polls or lose their jobs:

....a thousand people all were part of the push that got nearly 186,000 voters to New Orleans polls on Election Day and gave Democrat Mary Landrieu a U.S. Senate victory.

...it was Morial's get-out-the-vote teams that won the day for Landrieu...

For instance, when the management team got word at 3:15 p.m. Tuesday that a GOP tracking poll showed Jenkins ahead, it was time for an instant parade. "Within 45 minutes, we arranged a motorcade," Tucker said. "We found Mary and Marc, got school buses for workers and sound trucks with music and put on a parade to flush out our voters."

Landrieu and Morial waved from campaign manager Norma Jane Sabiston's convertible..."We moved them into the major housing project areas blowing horns and playing New Orleans music..."

Thanks to RCL.

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A trailer for a recut, happy sort of Shining.

Thanks to VonKreedon.

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Been a while.

A Rustling in Dave's Pants

Powers Boothe's got
a lot of hate in him. I wish he'd put
some of that hate... in me.

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As Karol snarks, it's probably due to those 5,000 French troops in Iraq.

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There's a lot of bad sex in Hollywood. Only 0.1% gets filmed, though.

An infamous swimming pool-based clinch from the much-criticised 1995 film "Showgirls" received the dubious honour of being named the worst sex scene in the history of cinema.

Paul Verhoeven's film, starring Elizabeth Berkley and Kyle MacLachlan, was critically mauled on its release, to the extent that it is now viewed by some as a cult classic.

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Other titles in the top 10 include Madonna's 1993 potboiler "Body of Evidence", where she drips hot candle wax on Willem Dafoe, and part of recent Ben Affleck-Jennifer Lopez flop "Gigli".

"Unfeasibly bad, the pair, while sexy as hell on their own, together here couldn't generate enough heat to toast bread," the magazine complains.

Eh. Affleck and Lopez were just fine in that scene. It was Affleck's toupee that really phone in its performance.

I'm not quite sure how they missed Deliverance. Definitely not hot.

Well, a tiny bit hot, okay.

All right, very, very, very hot. Ever since that scene I get a "funny feeling" when watching the Superman movies. OOOO-tis!

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Not good:

Want to become strong and potent like a tiger? Then why not try our special tiger meat dish? This was the question posed to customers at a restaurant in Hailin, Northeast China's Heilongjiang Province.

The establishment was later fined and ordered to close for inspection, after a local newspaper revealed its recommendation of the outlawed dish.

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The restaurant was offering a dish of stir-fried tiger meat with hot peppers for 800 yuan (US$9 , according to reports.

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The tiger-meat story published in a local newspaper has created shock waves.

Police subsequently raided the restaurant and confiscated the so-called tiger meat.

After inspection, the owner, Ma Shikun, confessed that the so-called tiger meat was actually donkey meat that had been dressed with tiger urine, to give the dish a "special" flavour.

Yeahp. It tasted like chicken.

Thanks to cutaway.

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Two "mosque leaders" indicted in NY for conspiring to support terrorism.

Another shocking development.

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The book Freakonomics noted that abortion had reduced the crime rate, by reducing the number of children born to poor, unmarried, often teen mothers, the children most likely to commit crime later on.

Bennet, in discussing bad arguments for and against abortion, noted that just because you could abort "every black baby" in this country, and it be "an impossible, ridiculous, and morally reprehensible thing to do," but conceded "the crime rate would go down."

Liberals, and Media Matters of course (the link above) are of course making a major fuss out of this.

Yes, he mispoke. It's wince-inducing statement, something you know someone shouldn't have said. But while Media Matters righteously points out that Freakonomics did not make a "race-based argument," it does seem to me that poor unmarried teenagers having babies will, as a statistical matter, skew fairly black.

He shouldn't have said it -- no need to say "black," and "black" isn't the right word anyway; the theory talks about poor children born out of wedlock, some of which are black, but many of which aren't, and of course many black children aren't born poor or out of wedlock -- but one can hardly cry "racism" for making this inadvertant equivalency while speaking extemporaneously.

Mark Levin at the Corner is having none of it.

I like this line:

Let's not cede the moral high ground to people who've never held it.

Via the Blogometer.

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Making it a little more friendly to humans:

Among other things, the bill would mandate the federal gummint to compensate private property owners whose development plans are blocked under that law to protect critters and creatures. The bill also removes certain protections for animals when land usages severely would be limited as a result thereof.

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