A joint commitment by the leaders of North and South Korea to replace the 1954 cease-fire agreement with a peace treaty.

This in combination with Kim Jong-Il's recent commitment to dismantle their nuclear programs is being hailed as "all that". The usual suspects wag their "I told you so" fingers at Bush to assert that diplomacy is the real answer and his hard line stance was an impediment to progress.

We'll see. They've lied before. And if they expect us to believe they no longer wish to be considered a terrorist state, it'd be nice if they knocked off the nuclear proliferation and support of another terrorist state led by a pencil-necked monkeyface President who is busily checking the warranties on his brand-spanking new air defense system.

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Prosecutors cite lack of evidence in case where a man died after getting a sherry enema

That's the real headline and sub-hed and a pic of the defendant.
I'm not reading the story. I've done my job.

Thanks to Jan.

Top Ten Other Things You Shouldn't Put In Your Ass

10. An erotic cocktail of Nitric Acid and Sunny D

9. A womp-rat (even one slightly smaller than 2 meters)

8. A cappuchine monkey, like you've seen on Friends

7. The three-disc DVD of Dune: The Special Edition including the special making-of featurette, How Many Fucking Voice-Overs Can We Cram Into This Piece of Shit?

6. Jarts

5. A Viking helmet

4. An XM radio receiver tuned only to pick up NPR, even if you think it's kinda funny that every time you fart you hear "Freshhhh Air with Terri Gross"

3.
Flappy, The Harbinger of Forbidden Pleasure

2. A bronze bust of John Bender from the Breakfast Club

...and the Number One Thing You Shouldn't Put In Your Ass...

1. Glenn Greenwald

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It's a small step, but one I'm happy to see. The Senate has included $3 billion for the Department of Homeland Security in a defense spending bill. The $3 billion had already passed as part of the homeland security spending bill in July which President Bush has threatened to veto because it is $2 billion over budget. By contrast, Bush is expected to sign the defense spending bill without a fight.

The money will be designated "emergency spending" and tasked with securing the southern border:

The $3 billion would pay for new and existing provisions, including funding 700 miles of fencing, thousands of new Border Patrol agents, 300 miles of vehicle barriers and 105 ground-based radar cameras.

Of course, that's the 700-mile fence that was authorized back in October of last year. It's finally receiving enough funding to be completed. Now we get to hold our breaths and hope that DHS Secretary Chertoff gets the job done.

The inclusion of $3 billion for border security is a nod from Republican senators to everyone who called for enforcement before amnesty during the debate on comprehensive immigration reform in June. At least some senators are listening; this legislation came from Senator Lindsey Graham, one of John McCain's go-to guys on amnesty. Maybe Graham is feeling the pressure of 2008.

The 95 to 1 vote approving the border security addition to the defense spending bill puts the lie to Democrats and soft-on-immigration Republicans who claimed that enforcement had to be accompanied by amnesty-like or amnesty-lite measures.

The House defense spending bill contained no DHS spending. The two versions must be reconciled before heading to the president's desk. Let's hope our border security funding doesn't disappear in conference.

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Another candidate receives her MFO degree (Master of the Fuckin' Obvious).

Women don't like to be outnumbered in a room full of strange men.

Women find this situation stressful.

They also reported "a lower sense of belonging and less desire to participate in the conference," the study showed.

And they paid more attention to their surroundings when they watched the video in which women were in minority.

"This kind of attention allocation (to surroundings) would interfere with performance and might help explain the performance gap between men and women in these fields," the study said.

Men, meanwhile, showed no significant physiological or attention changes when watching either film.

In fact, they liked being in a setting dominated by women.

No shit Sally? Men don't mind being in a sea of women with not another man in sight? WOW.

This is what a woman thinks when she realizes she's the sweet morsel in the center of a classroom full of men: "Oh my God. Everybody's looking at me, I just know it. I think I'll go to the bathroom and not come back."

What I imagine a man thinks when he realizes he's a fox in a henhouse: "I am now in the exact center of a squirming, undulating pigpile of G-strings and tits on the 50-yard line in front of a roaring crowd while the two fat chicks are on the sidelines offering refreshments and grilling bratwurst. I hope the hottie at the front of the class turns around again so I can get a better mental picture and really flesh out the details of this thing."

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WhatÂ’s less cool than a fan running on to the field of a sporting match? A player acting like he's been shot and carried off the field when he's really been brushed by the hand of some random idiot.

Below the fold you can cleanse your pallet of that pathetic display while enjoying some real hits from a real sport, hockey. more...

Posted by: DrewM. at 08:25 PM | Comments (72)
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Check out the contestants.

Once Ana Marie Cox gets done with her ten minutes of stand-up on anal sex, how exactly is Alex Pareene gonna top that?

Fortunately I caught Wonkette's act at the Dupont Circle Laff-Shak so you don't need a DC road trip to catch her comedy stylings.

UPDATE: (Jack M.)- What do you morons think? Should I pretend to be an investigative journalist type of blogger and embed myself in the comedy club on the 17th to catch the list of losers in action?

Would that be a service to the blog?

And if I go, shouldn't all of you e-mail MKH and tell her she needs to go with me?

OK..I kid about that last part (maybe) but I'm thinking that maybe I should go and do a field report on Ana Marie's act. But if you morons don't care, I won't bother.

Let me know in the comments. I may have my very own Jackapalooza after all.

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Feingold's still big. It's the anti-war measures pushed by Democrats that got small.

Pretty amazing display of a leader of the Reality-Based Community indulging in Community-Based Reality and simply pretending the last six months of success in Iraq didn't happen at all.

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Johnny Fairplay is a former pro-wrestling promoter/villain, and Danny Bonaduce obviously is a huckster too. Still, this looks genuinely dangerous and painful.

So: 1) entirely fake; 2) entirely real; or 3) partly faked but resulting in real cracked teeth?

Three teeth lost and Bonaduce is facing felony battery charges. So it seems real.

Thanks to Michael.

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Not exactly the kind of success story you're going to include in your references.

A mother who enlisted the services of TV's Supernanny to control her unruly sons was left homeless yesterday after one of them apparently set the house ablaze.

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On Tucker Carlson a short time ago.

So we're going to have a new Congressionally-authorized ratings board for political speech.

What a tool.

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