Which includes a... well, I'll let an MSM gossip column tell you.

Everyone who remembers Diamond as a lovable putz is in for a shock once they see a 40-minute video in which he engages in a kinky three-way with two women, sources tell us.

We can't get too graphic here, but word is that the action includes some bodily functions and an act known as a "Dirty Sanchez."

Phoenix-based agent David Hans Schmidt, who has brokered some of Hollywood's biggest celebrity-skin deals, confirms that he's acquired the rights to a tape featuring Diamond.

"Just when you think you have seen everything in this business," he tells us, "mankind has raised the bar another notch. Or lowered it."

Schmidt is in L.A., shopping the tape to Hustler's Larry Flynt, Vivid's Steven Hirsch and other major distributors of adult video.

Now age 29, the 6-foot Diamond is much brawnier than you may remember him. He's a black belt in karate, and, four years ago, he defeated Ron Palillo (Horshack on "Welcome Back, Kotter") on Fox's "Celebrity Boxing 2."

Yeah, he beat a 57-year-old Horshack. He's tough as nails, yo.

A little bonus, just to put you off eating for a week:

The sex vid's working title is "Saved by the Smell." Ewwwww.

Thansk to Digger's Realm, who's in negotiations to distribute a sex tape featuring "Boz" from Riptide and two of the Lone Gunmen.

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Update: Substantive point finished. Worth reading, I think.

It was called "How Partisan Is Too Partisan?," which struck me as a kind of weak premise. However, it quickly elevated (or devolved) into the eternal dispute over whether the media (and academy) were 90% liberal and where the country's politics are right now.

Glenn Reynolds moderated. On the panel were a late-ish but welcome Michael Barone, Paul Mirengoff from Powerline, Mark Blumenthal aka Mystery Pollster, FoxNews Watch's Jane Hall (who packed the room with her students, some of whom were cute), Cliff May, and Claudia Rosett. Roger Simon introduced the panel, but I didn't recognize him, because he went sans fedora.

Before getting into the discussion, I'll mention I met several people for the first time, like Val Prieto of Balbau Blog, Matt Sheffield of NewsBusters, Conn Carrol of the The Hotline (well, I didn't meet him, so much we exchanged the Guy Nod of Recognition), David "Choose Life" Wiegel of Reason's Hit & Run, Sgt. Smash, Bill from INDC, and, yes, Jeff Gannon, who said he enjoyed the coverage of The Jeff Gannon Scandal (also known as The End of the World As We Knew It).

Glenn Reynolds wanted to shake the hand that shook the President's hand, and Bill From INDC went him one better, asking to smell the hand that shook the President's hand.

"It smells like freedom," he said, which is such a good line I'm positive he wrote it beforehand but either way, pretty funny.

I met a lot of people, so forgive me for forgetting some. I was loaded up on anti-anxiety and anti-epilepsy pills, plus I was trying to calm my brain with alcohol while simultaneously trying to wake up with lots of coffee, as I was pretty much fallling over from want of sleep. more...

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Remember how a lot of people scoffed when smokers warned that banning their habit was only the beginning?

Looks like they had a point.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Three years after the city banned smoking in restaurants, health officials are talking about prohibiting something they say is almost as bad: artificial trans fatty acids.

The city health department unveiled a proposal Tuesday that would bar cooks at any of the city's 24,600 food service establishments from using ingredients that contain the artery-clogging substance, commonly listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.

Yes, trans fats are bad for you but they give a lot of foods their taste and texture. You know why that pie crust or that croissant is so flaky? You know why those fries have so much flavor?

Yup - ingredients with trans fats. (Updated - scroll down)

There's no argument that these things are bad for you, but most of us don't eat them on a regular enough basis to really hurt us. And even if we did, why should the government be sticking their nose into what I choose to eat? I know..I know... there are public policy questions here regarding the cost of health care and the contribution of fatty foods to the increasing costs of that care, but there are ways to provide incentives for good behavior without arbitrarily banning entire food groups.

First smoking, then fois gras, now trans fats. The banning of these things may seem harmless, but it's a disgusting intrusion into our lives and a limitation on our freedom.

Let's fight this.

On another note, I cann't wait to see this guy's reaction.

Cross posted at my moronblog

UPDATE - Okay, yes. Trans fats are not the ideal. Lard and butter are much better. But we were stuck with trans fats when the frickin' health nannies told us years ago that lard and butter were bad. Until these idiots make up their mind on what's bad for us and what's good, we might want to put a hold on making broad public policy based on their advice.

I'd be more than happy to eat stuff cooked with lard and butter - if you've never had a pie crust baked with lard, or donuts fried in it, you're missing out. It's like touching the face of God, it's so good.

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Every time I think I've lost my capacity for amazement, things get a little bit worse:

Berlin- One of Germany's leading opera houses, Deutsche Oper Berlin, announced Monday that it was cancelling a controversial production because of the likelihood that it might offend Muslims. The original opera, Idomeneo by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, makes no reference to Islam, but director Hans Neuenfels introduced a scene to his production that depicts the decapitated heads of the Prophet Mohammed, Jesus Christ, the Buddha and the Greek god Poseidon.

Here's what I don't get. It's tough for Germans to find much in their culture to be proud of these days. There's something about brazenly starting two huge wars in thirty years and nearly wiping out an entire continent's population of Jews that tends to give you a bad name on the international stage. It's got to be tough knowing that the adjectival form of your country's name has become a byword for "thuggish brute".

But guys: music is where you excel. Bach, Handel, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schumann, Brahms, Mahler...these guys are the all-star team. No other country compares, or even comes close.

Hell, I'll even throw in Wagner and Buxtehude, just for good measure (although I draw the line at Schoenberg).

The point here is that this is the very best of what your culture has produced, an art form that reached its pinnacle under your batons, and you're blithely tossing it away one little bit at a time, you craven teutonic pissant swine.

This incident highlights one of the reasons I get nervous about things like, I don't know, the London mega-mosque I mentioned yesterday. If they're this scared in Berlin, how eager do you think Londoners are going to be to produce The Abduction from the Seraglio or Dance of the Persian Slave Girls next to a stadium of people likely to be offended by them?

Because that's how it will happen: Pieces of art and other culturally "controversial" items won't have to be banned for very long; they'll just gradually disappear as people decide they aren't worth the trouble.

Link found via Hot Air.

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This story is exactly what I needed today to cheer me up.

A former handyman from North Providence who won more than $400,000 in a lawsuit over a malfunctioning penile implant may not get the money after a judge dismissed his claim...The implant has caused Lennon to have an erection for 10 years.

Ahh...the halcyon days of the mid-90s, before boner pills hit the market. A time when a dude who wanted to sport some ferocious wood had to be serious about it:

Lennon received the steel and plastic implant in 1996, about two years before the impotence drug Viagra went on the market. The Dura-II is designed to allow impotent men to position the penis upward for sex, then lower it.

They make it sound like some sort of elaborate and horrifiying cyborg dork-crane.

Let's hope this guy gets the money to fix it soon. He should destroy this abominable future-penis of his before it becomes self-aware and starts running around trying to kill Sarah Connor.

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As long as we're thinking about military strategy, here's some cool military hardware set to music.

As Ace usually says, one of these might not exactly fit, but what the heck. more...

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Those aren't my words.

That description originates with none other than St. Andrew Sullivan of the Sacred Bleeding Heartache who used it to describe Ace in relation to a post about Rumsfeld that was put up by, umm...., Michael.

The company you attract, Michael.

Anyway here is the blockquote from Excitable Andy's site:

Even foaming-at-the-mouth Caesarists understand this now. And yet this architecht of one of a military failure far graver than Vietnam is still calling the shots.

I figured that y'all might like a chance to characterize St. Andrew's political views. Seems only fair to me.

And since he doesn't have comments, and the HQ does, what better place to return fire than in the comment section?

One rule though: No Gay Bashing stuff. Keep it in the spirit of "foaming at the mouth Ceasarists". Maybe I'll make a contest out of who can best encapsulate Sully's views in the most civil of terms.

So fire away. And remember "Ave Ceasar!"

Or, at the least, "Veni, Vidi, Vici."

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Looks like this Israeli/Lebanese/UN sitdown didn't go so well:

The meeting went to pieces after the IDF demanded that UNIFIL adopt more combative rules of engagement. What particularly angered the IDF was an interview UNIFIL's commander Maj.-General Alain Pellegrini gave to The Jerusalem Post last week and in which he said the peacekeeping force would not actively engage Hizbullah guerrillas even if they were on their way or in the midst of an attack against Israel.

I can't possibly imagine why these obstinate Hebrews would have a problem with a peacekeeping force that openly refuses to do anything more exerting than sitting around and playing with its collective wang. I mean, the sheer gall of it.

Money quote from an Israeli official:

"We told UNIFIL that we plan to pull our troops out of Lebanon by Yom Kippur," a high-ranking officer said, referring to the Jewish festival this Sunday. "Although we haven't committed to a year."

Take your time, guys. It's not like they're going to do something useful with the place when you leave.

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Yeah, yeah, Ace went to the White House, met the President, and we all couldn't be prouder.

But those sentiments are universal. What makes today's comment of the day so unique is it's ability to see the big picture. It focuses on the things in life that are really important.

So here it is in all it's glory:

You got to see a bill become a law? Was it a cute, sining bill like on School House Rock?

Most importantly you had breakfast with MKH...did you put in a good word for Jack M.? You gotta hook a brother up.
Posted by Drew at September 26, 2006 12:36 PM

Emphasis added.

Drew, thank you for voicing what really is the truly important question of the day.

After all, if the day ever comes when patriotic American men forget the universal man-law priniciple that "you gotta hook a brother up" we will be nothing more than European men.

So let's hope Ace came thru for yours truly. Otherwise, we might have to start translating his posts from the original French.

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This entry in its entirety graciously provided by geoff.

The Arizona 9/11 Memorial controversy has been raging for a week, but in my town of Broomfield, Colorado they used the occasion of the 5th anniversary of 9/11 to open a different sort of memorial. Last year they put out American flags all over the lawn of the library – one for each victim on 9/11. They then sold the flags for $20 apiece to partially fund this memorial (I believe the total cost was $1.2 million).

This picture (all pictures were taken by Mrs. geoff) shows the site, which faces west towards a small lake. There are six sculpture pieces: the three plaques in the center, the policeman & child in the foreground, the fireman on the back right, and three survivors in the back left (behind the third plaque).

The policeman is comforting a child, and has given her his hat to wear.

This plaque is devoted to Flight 93 which crashed in Shanksville, PA.

It’s difficult to make out (even on the plaque), but halfway up the plaque there are trucks and bulldozers cleaning up the scene after the crash. A wreath and a teddy bear are in the foreground, and the forest is in the background. The inscription says “Let’s Roll.” This is my least favorite of the three, but at least there’s no moonbattery evident.

The second plaque is dedicated to the attack on the Pentagon – it’s pretty obvious what is shown here.

The third plaque shows the World Trade Center towers on the morning after. They have been replaced by beams of light reaching to the heavens. My favorite of the three. The inscription reads “The Towers of Light.”

This is the sculpture you couldnÂ’t see in the first photo. Three survivors helping each other escape the disaster.

It was hard to walk around the memorial without tearing up. This memorial was dedicated wholly to the victims – there are no “teachable moments” here, no vetting by AZ professors to ensure that we take away the right lessons, no nuance, no layers.
ItÂ’s a simple and respectful acknowledgement of a terrible tragedy, with no martial or pacifistic overtones. And thatÂ’s exactly what a memorial should be.

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