Yikes

Ye east siders, watch your back.

Not-working stiff

I was doing an Al Gore impression this morning that Ereck said was very good. Basically I just repeated the phrase "no controlling legal authority" over and over until I keeled over.

Garbage in, garbage out

Question. back with interest has an archive page that blogger.com generates automatically, and I'm grateful for the feature, but a spot check reveals that maddeningly, not all of the links work--04/13/2003 - 04/19/2003, for example. But a majority of the links I checked do work. Anyone know what's going on, or better yet, what to do about it?

First you say you do, and then you don't

George W. Bush, speaking today on gay marriage: "I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman. And I think we ought to codify that one way or the other. And we've got lawyers looking at the best way to do that."

George W. Bush, speaking today on Condoleezza Rice: "Dr. Condoleezza Rice is . . . fabulous."

Hmm.

Those clowns don't make you laugh. They make you feel.

There's no question that Gene Simmons was indeed obnoxious to Terry Gross when she interviewed him last year.

But much of what he said rings distressingly true.

Road to Calvary

On the occasion of Bob Hope's demise, an illustration from The Book of the Subgenius (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987), sacred text of the Church of the Subgenius and its avatar, J.R. "Bob" Dobbs.