Pwnd?

Or was someone playing along?

Posted by: Ace at 11:50 AM | Comments (8)
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When you read all of this at once, you realize two things: 1, the LAT really is very biased. 2, Patterico really, really hates the LAT.

Posted by: Ace at 11:42 AM | Add Comment
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John McCain is a dick.**

Now, nobody here cares about Chelsea Clinton, and that hardly matters. And the editorial position of the amateur webzine Slate is beside the point.

This event happened ten years ago when the elderly Senator was presumably in better control of his faculties.

He actually thought that calling an 18 year old kid ugly and her mom a lesbian was good campaign jokery. Now, these things may be true, but it's low class and douchey to point it out. The same criticism we make against lefties who attack Republicans' kids. The girl did not choose her parents.

I might also remind folks that the man is given to fits of bug-eyed, vein-poppin' rage and has been for years.

Your mileage may vary, but I believe temperament is at least as important as policy platform when selecting the next CIC.

He's also a pro-illegal immigration liberal, and just generally an old doddering fuckin' nut. No disrespect intended.

All of this is meant in the nicest way possible.

This punditry thing isn't so hard. I can do this.

** I know there are few if any McCain supporters on this site. Someone specifically suggested that I 'resurrect that scandal' and I said OK what the Hell. Don't have much other to do today.

Posted by: LauraW. at 09:09 AM | Comments (2)
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Comments are taking a long Holiday Weekend. Please to be using the Haloscan version until the minx thingie gets new batteries or rabbit ears or a paperclip jammed somewhere effective.

I don't know how any of this stuff works.

Posted by: LauraW. at 08:10 AM | Add Comment
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No playoffs, just a regular season pickem pool.

I feel kind of sad. Well I did, until I saw that I vaulted past Bart and Slublog on my 11/16 week. HAHA, suckas!

Here's the results from AoSHQI. I'm sure we'll hear from PHenry in due course.

UPDATED: we heard from him.

1 PHenry (shocka) 144. Football God. Peyton Manning is on line one, wants to talk about your abs
2 anotheranon 141
3 Mr_Wide_Stance 139 (you get top billing, I lucked into this dude)
3 Dave in Texas 139 (SUCKIT. DAVE GETS SHOW)
5 Slublog 138
6 Dr Zin 137

Some of you have asked me if I'm disappointed that Dallas lost yesterday. No. FY, NQ.

Posted by: Dave In Texas at 06:24 AM | Comments (3)
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Tennessee's ahead, barely, 16-10, with t he colts with the ball and 2 minutes left. Nope, Colts turned it over on downs, now the game clock is jut being run out by the Titans. Titans advance, Browns stay home.

Posted by: Ace at 08:08 PM | Comments (11)
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Read the whole thing.

Thanks to Robert.

Posted by: Ace at 07:50 PM | Comments (32)
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17 minute vid, so buckle in.

Pretty good. Where are the other candidates' long-form pitches?

Posted by: Ace at 07:11 PM | Comments (29)
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A group of self-appointed grandees is going to get together to whine about how partisanship is ruining America. Naturally, they think if people would stop fighting for what they believe in and listen to these super cereal geniuses, everything will be so much better!

If there is ever going to be a hall of fame for “Annoying Politicians Who Think They Are Smarter Than Everyone Else But Who Nobody Listens To”, this will be the inaugural class of inductees.

New York Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg, a potential independent candidate for president, has scheduled a meeting next week with a dozen leading Democrats and Republicans, who will join him in challenging the major-party contenders to spell out their plans for forming a "government of national unity" to end the gridlock in Washington.

Those who will be at the Jan. 7 session at the University of Oklahoma say that if the likely nominees of the two parties do not pledge to "go beyond tokenism" in building an administration that seeks national consensus, they will be prepared to back Bloomberg or someone else in a third-party campaign for president.

Conveners of the meeting include such prominent Democrats as former senators Sam Nunn (Ga.), Charles S. Robb (Va.) and David L. Boren (Okla.), and former presidential candidate Gary Hart. Republican organizers include Sen. Chuck Hagel (Neb.), former party chairman Bill Brock, former senator John Danforth (Mo.) and former New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman.

Ah yes, the siren song of ‘ending gridlock’. Why don’t these fools realize that gridlock is a feature not a bug of the American system? Oh yeah, because gridlock prevents them from sticking the fingers further into areas they and the government have no business being in the first place.

What this all comes down to is a bunch of politicians who canÂ’t command any support from within their respective parties, so they will simply resort to complaining about the system and telling each other about how they are too good and pure to actually engage in a battle of ideas.

The best thing that could come out of this is Bloomberg will have so much smoke blown up his ass about how only he can save America that heÂ’ll actually run for President. Considering heÂ’s a Northeastern, big government, nanny-state liberal, heÂ’ll likely hurt the Democrat nominee far more than the Republican.

Posted by: DrewM. at 02:29 PM | Comments (27)
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Conspicuous consumption for the very, very wealthy.

The model used at the 2004 wedding of the Crown Prince of Brunei, Al-Muhtadee Billah Bolkiah, was modified to resemble a horse drawn carriage with solid gold decorations.

His family is reputed to own 500 Rolls-Royces - the world's biggest private collection. Meanwhile Nelly, the ­American rapper, had the interior of his Rolls-Royce redesigned in mink fur.

Eww. I bet that mink doesn't smell or feel so nice after a few parties.

--What? Too much? Be honest.

Anybody else want to take this baby out for a ripping good time through some mud and saplings? Can't imagine it handles quite as well with the weight of solid gold all over it, but I bet she can do OK. After all, that's still a Rolls Royce under there, somewhere.

Thanks to eddiebear.

Posted by: LauraW. at 01:25 PM | Comments (31)
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