Yep:

When I was on a layover in Madrid on my way to Venice, Italy yesterday, the closest thing I could find to a smoothie to get a little protein was a coffee with vanilla ice cream in it.

Smoothies don't count either, I guess.

I remember when I fasted for three weeks, getting by on the meager nutrition provided by Pizza Hut Super Supremes, grilled cheesebergers, kung pao chicken and sesame noodles and fried pork dumplings, mozzarella sticks, clam strips, Chicken & Broccoli Hot Pockets, Hungry Man Turkey Pot Pie Dinners, Haagen-Dazs ice-cream cakes, six or eight hot dogs from Grays' Papaya at a time (loaded up with spicy onions and chili, of course), roast beef and swiss sandwiches, and two bowls of Cinnamon Life cereal per day.

I'll tell you, that fast was a living hell. I gained like ten pounds.

Thanks to Andrews Dad. Who has a letter to the editor from another left-wing professor, this one accusing Jonah Goldberg and Charles Krauthammer of being Jew-Boys who only care about Israel.

Associate professor (emeritus) at the U of MN.

Trading in the sort of Jew-baiting that members of the Aryan Brotherhood would find too obvious and beneath them.

The tolerant left. Strong, smart, layers, yadda yadda yadda.

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Hokay:

A University of New South Wales team said the fearsome fossils were among 20 previously unknown species uncovered at a site in Australia's northwest Queensland state.

Professor Michael Archer said Wednesday that the remains of a meat-eating kangaroo with wolflike fangs were found, as well as a galloping kangaroo with long forearms that could not hop like a modern kangaroo.

"Because they didn't hop, these were galloping kangaroos, with big, powerful forelimbs. Some of them had long canines (fangs) like wolves," Archer told Australian Broadcasting Corp. radio.

It sounds like a velociraptor with bunny ears.

The team also found prehistoric lungfish and large ducklike birds.

"Very big birds ... more like ducks, earned the name 'demon duck of doom', some at least may have been carnivorous as well," Hand told ABC radio.

Archer said the team was studying the fossils to better understand how they were affected by changing climates in the Miocene epoch between 5 million and 24 million years ago.

I realize people are people, but, if you're trying to be a scientist, don't hype a find as a "demon duck of doom" and then tell us "some at least may have been carnivorous" as well.

Because you know what? It also "may have been" just a larger-than-average fuckin' duck.

Thanks to Brad.

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Been a while. These guys mix Beatles songs with Metallica songs, and they're pretty kewl.

Just reminded of this by the webmaster for their site, who appreciated the linkage (which was, you know, like two years ago), who finally acknowleged the attention. He says he doesn't agree with "everything" on this site (by which he means "anything") but notes, truthfully, that moptop-metal unites all.

Fun stuff. I forget what my favorites were. Right now I'm digging on "Sandman," which is just a mash-up of Taxman and Enter Sandman, and fucking hysterical. (Especially the unedited version. It just has the f-word in it. No big deal if you read this site.)

I should also say that I was turned on to Beatallica by the great JackM of Desolation Row.

I don't really want to start the whole evolution-ID fight again (unless, of course, a lot of people post on it and thereby boost my hits), but he sends this link about an ID/evolution debate. He highlights this quote:

One particularly interesting guy is Michael Ruse, who, despite being a fellow atheist, cannot stand the likes of Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, and said during the panel, "Until we evolutionists reach out to understand what motivates people on the other side, we're going to lose. And we bloody well deserve to."

Well, I think what "motivates people" is a non-negotiable, non-finessable fundamental disagreement on the origins of life. However, to the extent the heat in the debate can be reduced, it might help for evolutionists to not be so friggin' condescending all the time.

"For Horseman:" Another good one. For No One was always a good song, but it was a little, well, pussy-shit with those sad lyrics and the mournful French horn. Better done as angry speed-metal, combined with Four Horsemen, featuring ballsier lyrics like "Your girlfriend takes you to a lame-ass poser Winger concer, fuckin' forget her."

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Though I hear the album, American V, isn't all that good.

Correction: I misread the article and originally headlined this was Cash's first number one. I was in error. Thanks for the correction.

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Science.

I hope they're working on a Grand Unified Theory linking this important discovery with the well-known phenomenon of men preferring their own rude gasses to anyone else's.

I mean, I hope there's money left over in the science budget, after spending on Andi's preferred "peace, joy, and love" hallucinogen research.

Thanks to Matt.

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Like a bus accident. Well, one of those funny sort of bus accidents, like where a bus is filled with clowns and it crashes into a truck transporting confetti and cream pies.

Thanks to Craig, via one of Wizbang's six billion blogs.

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No, I'm not kidding. A lot of people asked him about this critical issue via email.

Asked about the possible awakening of the giant mythical octopus Cthulhu, the fourth-most popular question among the more than 150,000 sent to Putin, he said that he believed something more serious was behind the question. Cthulhu was invented by novelist H.P. Lovecraft and was said to be sleeping beneath the Pacific Ocean.

Putin said he viewed mysterious forces with suspicion and advised those who took them seriously to read the Bible, Koran or other religious books.

He also offered an opinion on the giant X-Men robots, the Sentinels. Or maybe the Transformers. The particular thrust of the question was unclear.

“Yes, we will use the latest technical devices. Already now they are being stationed, for example, in the southern parts of our country,” Putin said when reporters asked him after the conference whether Russia planned to use “gigantic, humanoid war robots” to defend itself.

Asked to elaborate about what he meant, Putin said: “These are unmanned aerial vehicles. And maybe the time will come for gigantic robots. However, so far we have put our main hope on people — namely border guards,” Putin said, Kommersant reported.

Cthulhu. Gigantic, humanoid war robots.

Princeton can use a man like Putin.

-- What?

He said, "Princeton can use a man like Putin."

I think we all could.

I think Bush needs to reexamine the accuracy of his trans-ocular soul-evaluating capabilities.

Thanks to Brett.

It's The Unasked Questions That Are Always The Most Interesting: Who'd win in a fight-- Cthulhu or Optimus Prime?

If one assumes, fairly I think, that most magical powers only function on a being possessing a soul, and that therefore the robotic Optimus Prime would be immune to most of Cthulhu's metaphysical powers, I think this one would be closer than many might assume.

Assuming the battle doesn't occur in the ocean, over which Cthulhu has dominion. But I think that's only obvious.

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Sometimes I have trouble keeping up. I knew, based on previous dodderings, that Ecstasy was a drug endlessly exalted by "true conservatives" like Andy.

But I didn't know that now 'shrooms were as well. I think Michael Oakshott wrote about a particularly great trip in his famous conservative manifesto, I Slam-Fucked A Radiant Sky-Snake While Strumming Soul-Chords On My Eyeballs.

A "study" -- science! -- informs us that, get this, some people really like drugs:

That experience included such things as a sense of pure awareness and a merging with ultimate reality, a transcendence of time and space, a feeling of sacredness or awe, and deeply felt positive mood like joy, peace and love. People say "they can't possibly put it into words," Griffiths said.

The small-government-loving, Bush-overspending-bashing, true-conservative-principles exhorting Sullivan makes a powerful case for a hard-headed prioritization of the spending of federal money:

Can we please have more research? If mankind's technological potential for destruction is now threatening to upend civilization, surely some research into the pharmacology behind love, peace and joy is worth some federal dollars.

The True Conservativism Of Andrew Sullivan

The government must focus like a laser on ONLY the critical functions of government, to wit, spending tax money on illegal psychadelic drugs as well as on "love, peace, and joy."

Andrew Sullivan does not have a political philosophy. What he has is an eighth-grade-schoolgirl's ever-changing "What's Hot/What's Not" list.

Coming soon: Sullivan proposes spending tax money on the Pet Shop Boys. Sort of a federally-funded MacArthur Genius grant.

This kind of puts his "spirituality" and conflict with the "Catholicist" Pope in context, eh? I guess he's pissed that Ratzinger dwells on all that "Jesus" and "redemption" crap, when he ought to be quoting the Gospel of Timothy Leary: "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Light, but peyote'll do you nicely in a pinch."

What an insufferable he-bitch of a man-pooter.

"Dan Brown's Sacred Effeminate" suggests calling him "Andi," which I will do henceforth.

If you're gonna talk like a bitch, you're gonna get slapped like a bitch.

Mr. Blonde said that. Or Nice Guy Eddie. I realize they're not as important as Burke, but they are nevertheless important conservative philosophers.

Let's Try That Again, As A Little Test: Just checking something... again.

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NRO linked this a long time ago, and then I linked it.

Now Jonah links it again, so I'll link it again.

The animation here is really moody and creepy. It says it's based on the works of Lovecraft, which I have to assume means "We have rigged this game so that your actions are wholly futile and you are doomed to death," because I have yet to survive more than thirty seconds or so.

Cool: Because my computer sucks, it slowed down to a crawl playing the game, helping me make it to level five. Wish I knew how to swap to the shotgun. That could have been helpful.

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They say such cases are "close calls," in which case the press should err on the side of incaution and publish anyway.

But -- get this -- they're quite certain that reporting that Valerie Plame sent her husband on a put-up job of fake intelligence mission was completely out of bounds!

SWIFT program, revealing the details CIA's secret air wing: Not sure if national security was damaged or not

Valerie Plame: Definitely should not have reported this, as it damages national security

It's really quite amazing when you think about it.

Layers.

NRO Demands An Investiagation Into Links: Useful venting. But they might has well demand free high-tubewidth for all.

We now have a rule. The CIA Is permitted to leak highly-sensitive information that cripples our security because they don't like Bush, and the NYT is permitted to publish it.

That's the rule.

It will remain the rule.

Because Bush is, alas, if not quite "unserious" about the War on Terror, not especially serious about it either.

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