For your amusement, I present you with:
An Aristocrats joke for the New Republican Age.
Go ahead, rotf lyao or whatever.
You're welcome.

(props go to
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When my folks + bro were in town last week, we went to Mt. Vernon. The experience was pretty much like this. (Not work-safe.)

(shoutout to fightscrime)

This guy is fascinating. You can read all about him here.


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Senator Specter finally went back and read the Suspension Clause, I see. Hooray for the Constitution!

Or maybe he just read my earlier post. I prefer to think the latter.

1. Since it's Wednesday, I got to sleep in until 8:30 instead of 7.
2. Since it's Wednesday, I was free to lounge in bed until 9, listening to Morning Edition3. Since it's the day after Election Day 2006, the first thing I heard was that Democrats had retaken the House by a stunning margin, were on the cusp of retaking the Senate, and had won a ( Read more... )

Rolling Stone lists the 10 Worst Congress[persons], and I'm hard pressed to disagree.

Via Wonkette (doing the math so you don't have to):

Newsweek: 51% of Americans Support ImpeachmentYou have to hunt for this gem: Newsweek keeps it down at the bottom. But there it is. 51% of Americans polled, including almost a quarter of Republicans polled. As Wonkette aptly recalls, that was Bush's threshold for declaring a "mandate ( Read more... )

Consider the following quotes.U.S. Constitution, Art. I sec. 9.
The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it. [emphasis added]

Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld, 542 U.S. 507 (2004).Many think it not only inevitable but ( Read more... )

WaPo: Health journalist Elizabeth Agnvall has an eye-opening cluster of articles about how teenage sexual health in the US compares with that in other developed countries.

I really don't have anything to add, except that I want to raise children in Sweden more than ever.*

*(see second sentence of linked post)

I spent three whole days last weekend writing. For maybe the sixth time since my arrival in DC three years ago, I forewent seisiún at Nanny's to write. Yesterday and today, I wrote from the moment I finished dinner until after 1am ( Read more... )