So Denver is goin to the show. Ok, next up, Seahawks and 49ers. I grew up hatin on San Francisco. Never had any feelings one way or the other about Seattle.

Oh wait. Yes I did.

Technically I suppose that's hatin on fumblefingers and not the Seahawks. ALSO I mentioned this yesterday, a pretty cool story about Seahawk fullback Derrick Coleman (h/t Slubs)

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First up, AFC Championship - New England and Denver. Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. Should be a pretty dang good game.

Here's a couple old favs.

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Dick Cheney Discovers The Lame Side Of The Force

Good morning morons and moronettes and welcome to the award-winning AoSHQ's prestigious Sunday Morning Book Thread.

He's Baaaaaaaak...

OK, so Dick Cheney has a new book out, Heart, which he co-wrote with his longtime cardiologist, Jonathan Reiner. It describes how he tears the still-beating hearts out of hippies and devours them while they are forced to watch.

Har har.

Actually, Cheney was born in 1941, which means that he was only 37 when he had his first heart attack. Yow, that's gotta suck. But it's not like it there was no reason for it. According to the Weekly Standard review of his book, in his early years, Cheney smoked like a chimney, ate poorly, and got no sleep or exercise. When his doctor told him he was a prime candidate for a heart attack, he refused to believe him. Until he had one.

In 1978, when Cheney suffered his first heart attack, he received essentially the same treatment President Eisenhower had had in 1955. Since then, cardiac medicine has been revolutionized, and Cheney has benefited from nearly every medical breakthrough. At each juncture, when Cheney faced a new health challenge, the technology was one step ahead of his disease. CheneyÂ’s story is in many ways the story of the evolution of modern cardiac care.

So there you go. The Weekly Standard review concludes:

In writing a book like this, with his vulnerabilities and unhealthy habits acknowledged quite frankly, Dick Cheney reveals a new public side. Perhaps this Cheney 2.0 can help counter the unfair-but-prevalent Darth Vader image he has among ideological critics.

Heh. This image is also cultivated, with glee, by his ideological supporters, particularly here at the HQ, based on the philosophy that it's better to be feared than loved. Also, to demonstrate that Cheney's critics are a bunch of pussies.

I should email this Weekly Standard reviewer links to the several "True facts about Dick Cheney" threads we've had.

At a time when partisanship rides high, it would be interesting to see Dick Cheney and Michelle Obama team up to lend their voices and reputations to an event that supports healthy eating and living.

Yes, it would. That would be an interesting display of bi-partisanship. But, dude. This is the most partisan administration I have ever seen. Obama's idea of "bipartisanship" is both Democrats and Republicans agreeing with him.

That may not happen, but Heart will remind readers of Dick CheneyÂ’s humanity and his long service to the nation.

Considering all that's gone wrong with his heart, it's amazing that Cheney is alive at all. But you know that the orgy of hatred that will erupt from the left when his heart finally gives out for good is going to be epic.
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Fresh as a new blanket of snow.

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It's so much showbiz and stuff that isn't really important.

But occasionally it is important. And a very fine thing.

via Slublog

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A notable win for Professor Volokh's project to see that the courts go back to recognizing that press freedom means freedom of the presses, not freedom for a special class of people recognized as members of the press.

From the decision:

The protections of the First Amendment do not turn on whether the defendant was a trained journalist, formally affiliated with traditional news entities, engaged in conflict-of-interest disclosure, went beyond just assembling others’ writings, or tried to get both sides of a story. As the Supreme Court has accurately warned, a First Amendment distinction between the institutional press and other speakers is unworkable: “With the advent of the Internet and the decline of print and broadcast media … the line between the media and others who wish to comment on political and social issues becomes far more blurred.” Citizens United, 558 U.S. at 352.

Yes, that Citizens United.

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So sayeth a scientist who is selling a book.

He notes that cats were never bred for companionship they way that dogs were.

Cats sort of adopted us and got used to hunting the rats and vermin that fed on the discarded food of early humans.

Bradshaw says cats live in a partly feral state and are not quite domesticated.

But just what is that builds those powerful bonds between cat owners and their furry friends?

It turns out cats treat humans as though they were the mama cat.

When a cat rubs against you with its tail straight in the air, it is checking to make sure you are not hostile.

I don't have an opinion on the matter. I hate cats.

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The Pacific Pivot isn't working so well. Pretty typical result based on all previous pivots. There have been, what, 19 pivots alone on jobs. How's that working out? Now comes the class warfare pivot.

Destroying the American dream is easy, just make it so the people no longer believe in themselves, and they will cling to Uncle Sam as their provider.

That is Obama’s transformation, and it is the core of the messaging pivot toward whining about “income inequality.”

America used to reject this politics of envy. Obama’s desperate pivot away from the ‘Obamacare’ debacle is betting that the transformation of the American mindset is far enough along, that he can survive through standard Marxist class warfare language, and people will forget the failure of big government that his health care law represents.

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