The heartland finally embraces Brokeback!

Fans of No. 5 Gonzaga have been asked to stop yelling "Brokeback Mountain" at opposing players.

The reference to the recent movie about homosexual cowboys was chanted by some fans during Monday's game against Saint Mary's, and is apparently intended to suggest an opposing player is gay.

The chants were the subject of several classroom discussions over the past week, and the faculty advisers for the Kennel Club booster group urged students this week to avoid "inappropriate chants" during the Bulldogs' Saturday game against Stanford, which was nationally televised on ESPN.

My sources inform me that "That's very brokeback" is now used for "How gay" among some college students.

Belated Credit: Sorry, I had meant to credit Mark at Marble Desk for this.

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I missed this remark of Ann's at CPAC, but Sean Hackbarth, who has better ears, apparently, caught it.

During her remarks at CPAC, Ann Coulter said:

I think our motto should be post-9-11, "raghead talks tough, raghead faces consequences."

"Raghead," Ann? Really? Is the book not selling as well as you'd hoped?

Dignan's 75 Year Plan thinks it's time to disown her.

I don't know about that. But she needs an intervention.

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The guy has some issues, and plenty of tissues.

Just to settle down all the womenfolk: Not true. It's an interesting catch by Dave, and certainly does represent part of the male population who is addicted to rating Victoria's Secret models and Swimsuit edition neophytes, but by and large -- relax. Grossly overstated in both intensity and scope of the problem.

My best guess is that while some guys do have impossible standards (in college we called them "virgins"), guys who write like this -- under the guise of trying to "help" women -- are just lashing out at them in a passive-aggressive way. They despise women, hate the fact they can't land the women they think they're entitled to, and so they attack women generally at being far beneath their standards. A couple of 10's they know make them feel inadequate and unwanted and, unable to hit back at those women directly (who are scarcely aware these guys even exist), they attempt to inflict the same feelings of insecurity and undesirability on women generally.*

On the other hand, I know that Dominic Dunne has written about men now expecting porn-actress behavior from women. But that's a different story. A happy story, as it turns out.

Via Ari Goes Down.

* Which isn't to say that looks don't count, of course. Of course they do.

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Wonderful.

Top Ten Al Franken Campaign Slogans

10. Stuart Saves His Party

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I'm sorry, I'm just not aware of anything else this guy has ever done. So I guess that's the end of the list.

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Salma Hayek and Penelope Cruz are in a new chick-western called Bandidas. But that's not really the good part:

Mexico's media has gone wild with reports that Latina movie stars Penelope Cruz and Salma Hayek have become lesbian gal pals.

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While doing movie promotion in Mexico, Cruz grabbed Hayek's butt and began caressing it in front of stunned Mexican photographers.

Now the pair can't seem to keep their hands off each other.

The lesbian rumors started flying, and neither Cruz nor Hayek seem interested in stopping the speculation.

"I grabbed Salma's ass just to keep things moving," Cruz reportedly told the National Enquirer. "And the energy changed when I did that."

In related news, the energy in my pants just changed to "subcritical nuclear."

Nope, check that, just went critical. Be back in a bit.

Thanks to Instapundit.

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I guess this won't serve as charge number 475 in Bush's imminent Bill of Impeachment.

Two key Democrats yesterday called the NSA domestic surveillance program necessary for fighting terrorism but questioned whether President Bush had the legal authority to order it done without getting congressional approval.

Rep. Jane Harman (Calif.), ranking Democrat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, and former Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (S.D.) said Republicans are trying to create a political issue over DemocratsÂ’ concern on the constitutional questions raised by the spying program.

Republicans are trying to create a political issue? Well, I know for a fact that Democrats were trying to create one.

Ace's Handy Political Momentum Calculator: Whatever party says the loudest they're not (or no longer) trying to create a political issue has realized the political issue hurts them.

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Read it all.

Former Vice President Al Gore told a mainly Saudi audience on Sunday that the U.S. government committed "terrible abuses" against Arabs after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, and that most Americans did not support such treatment.
Gore said Arabs had been "indiscriminately rounded up" and held in "unforgivable" conditions. The former vice president said the Bush administration was playing into al-Qaida's hands by routinely blocking Saudi visa applications.

"The thoughtless way in which visas are now handled, that is a mistake," Gore said during the Jiddah Economic Forum.

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Gore told the largely Saudi audience, many of them educated at U.S. universities, that Arabs in the United States had been "indiscriminately rounded up, often on minor charges of overstaying a visa or not having a green card in proper order, and held in conditions that were just unforgivable."

"Unfortunately there have been terrible abuses and it's wrong," Gore said. "I do want you to know that it does not represent the desires or wishes or feelings of the majority of the citizens of my country."

I hadn't realized Saudis had a right to visit America as they might please.

Thanks to DDG.

Not The First Time, Either: LGF notes that the Jew-hatin', America-bashin' The Zayed Centre for Coordination and Follow-Up think rage-tank has had Al Gore as a featured speaker, too.

Here's what the group's Executive Director says on their website:

Expressing their true face, Mr. Al Murrar said, “Jews claim to be God’s most preferred people but the truth is they are the enemies of all nations. Most philosophers like Zimmer, consider Jews as cheaters whose greed knows no bounds. Today, after having controlled print and electronic media, they distort facts to suit their objectives”, added Mr. Al Murar.

I'm less concerned by greed than murder, and less bothered by who may control the media as by who controls car-bombs.

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France waking up?

ONLY a year ago it might have provoked angry demonstrations and even a humiliating government retreat, but when Nicolas Sarkozy, the conservative interior minister and presidential hopeful, unveiled radical measures last week to curb immigration there was scarcely a murmur of dissent.

Under the new rules, highly skilled immigrants will be favoured over those coming to France to join family. The government will also have greater powers to expel illegal immigrants. “We no longer want immigration that is inflicted on us,” said Sarkozy, the son of a Hungarian immigrant, whose “zero tolerance” policing and American campaigning techniques have shaken up French politics.

Muslim groups were infuriated, interpreting it as a blow to north Africans in favour of Asian job seekers.

The relatively mild response from the left, however, suggested a change of mood in France, as did the surprisingly muted protests against a government scheme that would make it easier to sack young workers in their first two years in a job: unions had promised a turnout of at least 1m people. It was only a fraction of that.

“French opinion really is changing,” said Nicolas Baverez, an economist and author. “People understand that we must make radical changes if we are to continue to have an influence in the world.”

The extraordinary popularity of Sarkozy — “Sarko” — who is competing with Dominique de Villepin, the aristocratic prime minister, to succeed Jacques Chirac as president next year, is one measure of a revolution already under way in a country often described as allergic to change.

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Decide for yourself.

A commercial featuring veterans of the war in Iraq began airing here, telling viewers that the war in Iraq is against the terrorists of 9/11 and that it is going swimmingly.

These are dubious assertions, given that the war was billed as a war against Saddam Hussein and that it had cost the lives of 2,267 Americans as of Friday (almost 1,800 since the president said the mission was accomplished).

But more curious than the dubious assertions is the agenda of this big-bucks ad campaign: Who is paying for this pro-war propaganda?

News reports identified the sponsor as "the conservative Progress for America Voter Fund," but that barely scratches the surface. Progress for America is a campaign front for President Bush, meaning we have reached the point when the money men for a president who no longer faces election keep spending on spin to try to shore up support for a mistaken elective war.

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Fellow Americans, the Swift Boating of Iraq has begun.

Okay, so which veterans does Coleman pay heed to?

"This is a political organization that is using troops for a political agenda," says Paul Rieckhoff, founder and executive director of the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA). "These ads are trying to prop up the president's flagging agenda. That seems like a cheap trick. It's the same kind of thing he does when he keeps goes around giving speeches in front of the troops."

His group, formerly known as Operation Truth (ex-Gov. Jesse Ventura is on the board of advisers), is a nonpartisan organization that supports the military while "empowering" veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars "to use their credibility and experiences to speak truth to power."

Ah! A "nonpartisan" group of veterans, certainly not funded by any organizations of the left.

What a freakin' buffoon. I'd like to know who he's sleeping with to keep his low-profile, low-paying job.

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