Good stuff.

I think I have a gay man-crush on the DNC Vice Chair, too, except that I think she's a woman.

Well, my heart's in the right place anyway.

Posted by: Ace at 08:29 AM | Comments (11)
Post contains 48 words, total size 1 kb.

More reasonable discourse from the party that's just too high-minded and civil for its own good:

I sincerely hope you are staying on your meds. You are not a Bush partisan yet you think it your mission in life to defend George Bush. What is it? A latent homosexual man crush?

...

George, I know why you like these guys (besides your sexual fantasy about hooking up with them), you like their crazy, factless thought process. You employ it yourself. No matter how much realtiy smacks you in the face, you keep clicking your heels together and wishing for Kansas....

The Party of Tolerance (TM) strikes again.

Actually, Larry, it's not that I have a man-crush on Bush. I'm in queer-love with you, and I've been doing my damnedest all this time to get your attention. Now that you've finally noticed me, maybe we can go on a homo-date and have a nice queer-dinner and then go out fruit-dancing together.

Right now I'm practicing writing out my homo-married name: Mrs. Ace of Spades Johnson.

Sigh.

Posted by: Ace at 08:10 AM | Comments (30)
Post contains 209 words, total size 1 kb.

Patterico seizes upon this from her book:

Liberals use the word science exactly as they use the word constitutional.

Both words are nothing more or less than a general statement of liberal approval, having nothing to do with either science or the Constitution. (Thus, for example, the following sentence makes sense to liberals: President Clinton saved the Constitution by repeatedly ejaculating on a fat Jewish girl in the Oval Office.)

Patterico then writes:

Here’s what I find especially interesting about that passage: why did Coulter find it necessary to include the word “Jewish” in that last sentence?

We have all sorts of Coulter apologists populating the comments here, so I am sure someone can explain this to me.

To me, every word in that sentence is designed to show how repugnant and disgusting ClintonÂ’s actions truly were. I mean, just look how bad his behavior was. He didnÂ’t just kiss her; he ejaculated! Not on a woman, but a girl! Not just once, but repeatedly! Of all places, in the Oval Office! And she was fat!

And to top it off, she was Jewish!

It's possible, but I don't think so.

I think what Patterico is missing is that comedy often relies upon unnecessary specificity to be funny.

This "joke" isn't funny:

John F. Kennedy had sex with attractive women. Bill Clinton seems to only have infidelities with dumpy women.

This one is:

John F. Kennedy was bangin' movie stars. Bill Clinton gets aroused during the shift-breaks at the Culver City Fuddruckers.

Well, maybe it's not that funny. But that's a badly-remembered Colin Quinn joke. What makes it funny (to the extent it's funny at all, and if I've screwed it up, I'm sorry) is the unnecessary but terrific detail about "Fuddruckers."

I mean, he could have said "Trailer Trash" or something. But it's the "Fuddruckers" that makes it a joke.

Woody Allen used to do this all the time. He wouldn't say he was dating a woman; he'd specify he was dating "a [socio-ethnic type] majoring in [odd course of study in college] from [major "Women's Ivy" school or NYU]."

Anyway, while I do see that the mention of Monica Lewinsky's Jewishness as a seeming put-down, along with other put-downs (fat, the implication she's a whore), it also serves the purpose of a bit of comic specificity.

I would have avoided it, myself. It's not really that funny, and, as is lately the case with Ann, the comedic or rhetorical value of the barb is far outstripped by its likelihood of giving offense.

But as evidence of anti-Semitism? I don't think so. Just more evidence the woman is kind of thoughtless in her writing. Dangerous but oblivious, like Godzilla on Rufies.

Allah weighs in, more on Patterico's side, if tepidly so.

Posted by: Ace at 12:41 PM | Comments (129)
Post contains 459 words, total size 3 kb.

It's always worked for me. I'm a bitch, but I keep my baby-daddies satisfied.

This article is way too boring for me to read, but Karol's read it, and disagrees with it. I guess. Anyway, that doesn't matter; what's more interesting is Allah's comments.

If you don't know, Allah is, personally, a kind of down guy, and ruthlessly cynical about male-female relationships (and about most other things, too).

The debate turns into one about "confidence" -- whether it's real, whether it's usually deserved, whether or not it's important at all -- and then the fun starts. In case you don't know, Allah's really down on himself, a proud and out "Beta Male" by his own description, and wonders what the hell other people are so damn happy about.
more...

Posted by: Ace at 12:14 PM | Comments (79)
Post contains 645 words, total size 4 kb.

I'm not bothered by this one. It's clearly a joke. Not a very funny joke, but neither is it offensive.

In an interview with Right Wing News, she said John Murtha was the reason soldiers invented fragging.

I don't know it even makes sense, because I imagine, during Vietnam, many drafted soldiers would have appreciated a Murtha-like commander who favored an "over the horizon redeployment" in, say, Okinawa. Even soldiers who wanted to fight wouldn't have fragged him; they've got good hookers in Okinawa.

Still, big deal. I don't see why RedState is pissing and moaning about it.

While Editor & Publisher frets about that, they ignore Democratic consultant Larry Johnson's non-joke about Karl Rove's mother's suicide.

Posted by: Ace at 11:49 AM | Comments (19)
Post contains 123 words, total size 1 kb.

"No connections," etc.:

It is highly probable that the man in this meeting is Fazlur Rahman, a Pakistani cleric described in an article from the BBC Profile: Maulana Fazlur Rahman as “A pro-Taliban cleric in Pakistan... one of the two main contenders for the post of the country's prime minister.” The BBC also said “Maulana Fazlur Rahman… is known for his close ties to Afghanistan's ousted Taliban regime.”

Part One of the Saddam Dossier appeared to chronicle Rahman's meeting with Taha Yassin Ramadan, the then-vice president of Iraq and Saddam's chief enforcer. Part Two describes a meeting with an unidentified Iraqi official referred to as “M.O.M.,” who possibly is Tahir Jalil Habbush al Tikriti, the director of the IIS. This translation refers to the previous meeting of Maulana Fazlur Rahman and Ramadan. It also mentions a future meeting between the Maulana and Saddam Hussein. A second document captured in Afghanistan seems to confirm that a relationship existed between Saddam and the Maulana. The document is posted under the identifying Harmony number AFGP-2002-601693 at the West Point Terrorism Center.

....

The Iraqi official tells the Maulana that they want the Taliban to support Iraq against U.S. actions. They also discuss their common enemy: the United States.

Also mentioned in the notebook is Fazlur Rahman Khalil, a Pakistani Taliban leader and Al Qaeda associate, who does not appear to be present at this meeting. ....Khalil was a co-signatory of the infamous Usama bin Laden 1998 fatwa against the U.S.

Key excerpts from the notebook itself, with helpful highlighting, at Confederate Yankee.

Have you ever considered precisely how naive the belief is that Saddam had no connections with Al Qaeda? Why would he not? They had a common enemy and common goals.

It's just beyond ludicrous that Saddam and Al Qaeda sought to avoid working together simply to cause political problems for George Bush from 2004-2006.

Posted by: Ace at 11:45 AM | Comments (18)
Post contains 327 words, total size 2 kb.

Hamas does what terrorists do second-best (after butchering children and noncombatants).

They whine like bitches, calling the plan "regrettable" and saying the EU is ignoring "democratic realities."

I'm pleasantly surprised the EU is bypassing Hamas. Though I imagine most of the money for "medicine" will go to buying rockets anyway.

Posted by: Ace at 11:34 AM | Comments (8)
Post contains 64 words, total size 1 kb.

A picture of that moblie Chinese execution chamber you might have heard of.

I think they should have painted it like the A-Team van, myself.

Thanks to OgreGunner.

Posted by: Ace at 11:09 AM | Comments (12)
Post contains 32 words, total size 1 kb.

...at Garfield Ridge, if you can believe it.

Adopt-a-clitoris? Check.

Cats the look like Hitler? Check.

A guy named Dick Wanker? Check.

The 7 hottest girlfriends from 80's movies? Check. Though I really question some of these calls.

Thanks to Craig for the tip.

Posted by: Ace at 11:02 AM | Comments (11)
Post contains 48 words, total size 1 kb.

Hard News Dan out at CBS.

After having built his reputation by going anywhere in the world for a hot story - especially hurricanes - Rather was turned down last fall when he asked to cover Hurricane Katrina and for trips to Iraq and Afghanistan.

Instead, Rather paid for his own Middle East trek about two months ago, visiting Doha, Qatar, Dubai and the United Arab Emirates over 10 days "to keep up my sources and contacts," he said in an interview Wednesday.

That's so sad.

He'll whine that they favored the news-light perkiness of Katie Couric over his dogged investigative skills as the direction for the network, but we know better.

Posted by: Ace at 10:47 AM | Comments (14)
Post contains 120 words, total size 1 kb.