While browsing the internets, this pop-up ad appeared:


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You walk around in them, barely able to see five feet in front of you. Then suddenly the fog will lift for a minute and ruins and standing stones and wild horses slowly materialize out of the grey. Then it starts raining again, and they all dissapear one by one.

Also, I believe that my bed may actually be a medieval torture device.

Following Rick Santorum in the great tradition of ridiculous right-wing pseudo-mythological foreign policy metaphors is Mike Huckabee:
"During the Cold War, you were a hawk or a dove, but this new world requires us to be a phoenix"
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Am I a bad person for thinking that this is really funny?

I know they just went through a terrible situation, but they do look an awful lot like The Pacemakers.

R.I.P. Habeas Corpus

1215-2006

Yesterday was May Day Loyalty Day.

It was also the day of a nation-wide boycott and massive immigration protests.

Of course this was controversial. For the moment, I'm going to set aside objections to the demonstrations by racist opponents of immigrants. What I found interesting was the degree to which the boycott was controversial within the ( Read more... )

Stephen Colbert wins. Short of facing literal mortal danger, there are few braver actions one could take than what he did at the White House Correspondents Dinner. The phrase 'speaking truth to power' is an enormous cliché, but it fits perfectly here ( Read more... )