tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64841602011-04-21T20:49:10.486-04:00The blog incarnation of the Desperado mailing list, the voice of the apocryphalypse since 1978.Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401665728549199428noreply@blogger.comBlogger7351100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484160.post-1168959829068139602007-01-16T09:53:00.000-05:002007-01-16T10:03:49.106-05:00

Great! We've shown those barbarian terrorists how a beheading should be done!=*=The problem amateur hangmen have with pulling the head off is well understood. Professional executioners use tables to compute the drop based on the weight of the person being dropped. See Charles Duff's A Handbook on Hanging for full details and instructions.=*=No, the video hasn't been shown yet, but how long do

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My home state of Georgia is where the foundation of modern popular music was laid: Little Richard, Ray Charles, and James Brown. And many more. And then, there's Weeping Tommy Brown. You've never heard of him, but you can be pretty sure that Richard, and Ray, and James had heard of him. He brought the crying, weeping, scream into modern music, before Johnny Ray, before Little Richard, before

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He healed nothing. He performed the last step in the coverup of Republican malfeasance. This is a job best done by an honest decent chap. I wonder who they have lined up to step in when the administration of George W. "W" Bush is on the run. They're pretty low on honest decent chaps these days.Don't forget that without any investigation or oversight by either Congress or press, the

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Another ruthless worthless dictator. Another lamppost. Another hanging in the public square.

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Beware of all enterprises that require new words. The once-new words weapons of mass destruction meant, not "They have atomic weapons", but only, "If we can just find one container of mustard gas, no one will ever complain." Of course, they didn't find it and now they aren't even looking any more. The new word surge means, not "a temporary buildup to take us over the top", but rather, "a

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Okay, boys, we bring in 20,000 extra troops to Iraq. That'll tip the balance, because 140,000 troops and 100,000 contractors just aren't enough to spread thin. And if those cowardly traitors in the Pentagon don't think we know what we're gonna do with them, here it is: We'll wipe out the Shia militia. That's actually two attacks for the price of one, because not only will the elimination of

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Speaking of cunning plans, the new double-or-nothing plan for Iraq is another corker: Get back control of Iraq by seizing control of Baghdad. Then, presumably . . . Get back control of Baghdad by seizing control of the Green Zone. Get back control of the Green Zone by seizing control of the US Embassy. And, triumphantly . . . Get back control of the US Embassy by seizing control of a

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Here's your Iraq Study Group and their plan: This is the most godawful strategic cockup in American history. Let's keep doing exactly what we were doing when we got in this mess, at least for two more years. Then we'll pull out all our combat troops and leave the unarmed troops behind, surrounded. Great ideas, oh wise men, just great . . ."In short, a German spy is giving away every one of

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Oh goody, CBS thinks Iraq has "turned into" a civil war . . . just this week. Not everyone agrees:"We're clearly in a new phase, characterised by this increasing sectarian violence that requires us obviously to adapt to that new phase and these two leaders need to be talking about how to do that," Stephen Hadley, White House national security adviser, told reportersThe remainder of the national

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I'm sure the movies I didn't see were just wonderful, but I still cringe at the sadistic humiliation of Hot Lips and the football game was just plain stupid.I stood about all I could stand of the so-called country-music movie, that is to say, ten minutes of sneering at white high-school bandsmen, followed by three minutes of horrendous horribly sharp screeching by Lily Tomlin as an alleged gospel

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Brother Dave passes along a couple of urine samples from National Review Online:My greatest fear is that this Republican loss will be seen by our adversaries as a great victory.And from Jonah Goldberg, these brave, if insane, words:How Bush Should Handle Loss [Jonah Goldberg]I think James Baker and Dick Cheney should take Bush out to the woods around Camp David. After 24 hours in a sweat lodge,

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Wilt Chamberlain was made sport of by Red Auerbach and hated him so much, he wouldn't use his name, but called him "that man I don't like". Yet, when a questioner during the Larry Bird era opined that Auerbach was a racist, Chamberlain replied:"But these kids today, they've got no concept of history. They're always coming up to me and saying, hey, Wilt, aren't the Celtics racist? And I say, look

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Okay, here's a slogan for the Republicans, just to show what a good guy I am:He's not a pedophile, he's a pederast.There, feel better?

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"Stop sniffing around the pages or I'll call the cops." Mightn't a nice member-to-member conversation along those lines have cleared things up years ago? This creep was a freshman congressman and already hot on the prowl.=*=If alcoholism was a legal defense, the entire criminal justice system would collapse. America's favorite drug, no matter how legal, is implicated in more crimes per week

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There's an article about Wikipedia mentioning me in the Boston Globe West section today. The article, "Answering Wikipedia's Call to Fill in the Blanks" is here but you'll have to go to the hard copy to see the glamourous pix of me in my solarium library.

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In the course of urging that other nations follow our lead in ditching the Geneva convention (read the link and tell me that isn't what he is saying), President George W. "W" Bush paused for a moment of unaccustomed reflection:THE PRESIDENT: This debate is occurring because of the Supreme Court's ruling that said that we must conduct ourselves under the Common Article III of the Geneva Convention

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You'll have to saunter over here to find out what this is all about:After all, it is only America's love of Pluto that has made the study of our Solar System so complex and so absurd.(Fixed link).

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When the obituary writes itself.There were 458 items at the time I wrote this.Ed's note: "What a way to go" gets over 15,000 now, but "Crikey!" is more than 3 million.

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This briefwechsel from 1995 is the first thing Google found under binary liquid explosive. These secrets must be kept from circumcized men and veiled women who pray five times a day.>Astrolite could hold its own with the best of the standard >military explosives on a pound for pound basis, but it lackedNot any more. There are other, more energetic formulations.>The Astrolite explosives family

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This originally appeared during the campaign in 2004, but I thought it was worth a rerun.Hit the replay button. Say that again, Nedra Pickler of the Associated Press:Like Kerry, President Bush is a Yale graduate who has benefited from his wealth and family connections. But Bush spends his down time as more of an everyman, preferring to spend vacations at his Texas ranch clearing brush.They're

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I see the bad moon arising.I see trouble on the way.I see earthquakes and lightnin.I see bad times today.Chorus:Dont go around tonight,Well, its bound to take your life,Theres a bad moon on the rise.I hear hurricanes ablowing.I know the end is coming soon.I fear rivers over flowing.I hear the voice of rage and ruin.ChorusAll right!Hope you got your things together.Hope you are quite prepared to

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JO alerts us to Kinky Friedman's run for governor of Texas:"Kinky!" yells a guy who recognizes him from across the street. He gives a thumbs-up sign. "I'm votin' for you!""May the God of your choice bless you," Kinky replies.Ed's note: Title song written by Jerry Jeff Walker, but it's in Kinky's set list, along with "Get your biscuits in the oven and your buns in the bed".

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Aerial bombing of cities Roadside improvised explosive devices Defense of civilization Terrorism

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I saw a documentary about Red Skelton the other day, and copped a couple of bright Red words for you:"Talent is God's gift to you. If you use that talent, that's your gift to God.""I don't know where I've been or what I've done, but I wouldn't have missed it for the world," speaking in the person of Freddie the Freeloader

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Here's a link to a super-hot pic of Paris Hilton naked but for high-heel shoes and long black microphone cord and an accompanying piece on how the Grotty Old Party wants to give her a $91 million raise just to help the poor.I was reading John Collier when I happened on this, documenting the appeal of Paris a half-century in advance:She was one of those girls -- there is only one in a generation

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Send troops to Lebanon to scare the Syrians. Send troops to Syria to scare the Iranians.Send troops to Iran to scare the rest of the Muslims.In the meantime, send more troops to Baghdad to firm up our grip in Iraq. Hold in reserve the troops we'll need to send to Kabul to re-crush the Taliban, al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden.

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It seems those Middle-easterners be they Iraqis or Lebanese don't like being attacked and bombed even when it's for their own good! I'll bet those ingrates in Iran will be complaining next.

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Senator Stevens (Ass-Alaska) has attracted a lot of derisive attention with his assertion that "the Internet is made of tubes". Much of this derision comes from people who are confident that "the Internet is made of pipes".

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A lot of us just loved Syd Barrett and that includes all the members of Pink Floyd. They haven't always done it for each other, but they always treated their founder, Syd, with love, admiration, and respect, helping him when he had to leave the band, producing and playing backup on his solo records, guarding his royalties, and, as the Boston Herald,'s Brett Milano put it in his appreciation:He

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From Britain's Independent: An anti-Iraq war protester was questioned by police outside Downing Street because she was reading The Independent.Charity Sweet, 40, and a mother-of-three, was holding a copy of Thursday's edition which carried the headline: "Warning: if you read this newspaper you may be arrested under the Government's anti-terror laws."Inside was an article reprinted from Vanity

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Hallelujah!A step back from the brink, but this millipede administration has many more of its 80 to 400 legs stomping on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The Supreme Court says prisoners at Guantanamo may not be tried by kangaroo court, but the question of further detention without even this figleaf of taking them to a room in front of important looking people where they can complain

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All the bloggies have their knickers in a twist about the awful Ann Coulter and her making fun of the 9/11 widows. I say let a thousand Amanitas pop their spores. I don't care. Let her rot in her own rottenness. I certainly harbor no interest in Ms. Coulter's knickers, nor in whatever she may have twisted up inside them, but lifelong devotion to satire, freedom of speech, and John Locke

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That fish that President George W. "W" Bush is so proud of catching down there in Crawford was probably the only head of livestock on the entire Lazy W spread, having been born in a plastic tank and dumped in the president's lake, there to thrive until captured.

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Two points about the coverage and lack of coverage of Stephen Colbert's audacious takedown of President George W. "W" Bush at the annual We're Just a Bunch of Shallow Kidders White House Correspondents Dinner:1) Many commenters have pointed out that President Bush's own routine with the Bush imitator got lots of coverage, despite having had much of the same content as Colbert's, that is, "Bush is

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Dusty Foggo is the most Dickensian name on the national scene since Newt Gingrich. Ed's note: 5 minutes later: Okay, Jack Straw too.

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I hope your browser can handle this. A bunch of silly, amusing people just put on khakis and blue shirts and did a silly, amusing thing at a Best Buy store. =*=And while we're boning up on commercial culture from slow-loading sites, click here to be shocked and scandalized.Ed's note: Fixed second link. Prepare again to be shocked and scandalized.

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I don't get what all the fuss is about singing the national anthem in Spanish.After all, the first word in the song is José

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It is beyond hilarious that the collapse of the administration of George W. "W" Bush is being precipitated by: Turning over our port administration to the United Arab Emirates (which stinks to heaven symbolically for a dozen reason, all discreditable for the administration, but probably does not matter a whit to port security). The high price of gas (which he can do nothing about because, in

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As they say, If you're not scared, then you just don't understand the situation.Here are the opening paragraphs of an eloquent Kos diary:The Five Percent Solutionby antifaFri Apr 21, 2006 at 03:49:45 AM PDTThe Republican plan for America, all along, was Banana Republic.A nation of poorly educated renters and workers, ruled by their betters -- the wealthy five percent who own everything worthwhile

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Everybody is running with this tribute from John Lennon to President George W. "W" Bush, and so am I. I am me and Rummy's he, Iraq is free and we are all together See the world run when Dick shoots his gun, see how I lieI'm Lying...Sitting on my own brain, waiting for the end of daysCorporation profits, Bloody oil moneyI'm above the law and I'll decide what's right or wrongI am the egg head, I'm

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From Field and Stream, also known as Hate-America HQ:Rod and gun in hand, and backing the Second Amendment right to own firearms, President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney have won the hearts of America's sportsmen. Yet the two men have failed to protect outdoor sports on the nation's public lands. With deep ties to the oil and gas industry, Bush and Cheney have unleashed a national

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Mike Gravel announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination today.Gregory Fossedal, who is associated with Gravel in various institutes and tanks dedicated to promoting direct democracy, nominated Gravel back in 2004 in a think piece for UPI. Notice that this was written without reference to any current political controversy, trumped up or realOutside view: Gravel for

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The redoubtable JO pumps a little oxygen our way with this snippet to which I've added a handy pointer:From The Week magazine:A convicted Florida pimp is suing six of his former customers, alleging that they deserve some of the blame for his arrest and subsequent deportation. Dutch national Arthur Vanmoor, 46, who did business under the names [wait for it -- Ed.] "Arthur Funmore" and "Big Pimpin'

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This idea that one cannot comment on any ongoing legal procedure is just going to be handier and handier for the administration of George W. "W" Bush in the coming months and years.Mr. President, should there be capital punishment for war crimes?I'm sorry, I can't comment on an ongoing legal procedure.

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More outdated pop music on the political front. From Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - Anti-terrorism detectives escorted a man from a plane after a taxi driver had earlier become suspicious when he started singing along to a track by punk band The Clash, police said on Wednesday.Detectives halted the London-bound flight at Durham Tees Valley Airport and Harraj Mann, 24, was taken off.The taxi driver

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Way back in 1965 the Beach Boys accidentally had a hit with their beer-drenched cover version of "Bar- Bar- Bar- Bar-bara Ann". Way back in 1978, it was "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran". Way back in 2003, somebody took a crack at "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iraq".And now, way forward in 2006, it's time to bring back "Bomb bomb bomb bomb bomb Iran". And I thought it was Grateful Dead lyrics that

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The vocaballistic JO snagged this one in the businessphere:"I asked about wet leases yesterday. A wet lease is when one carrier charters an airplane and crew from another (as opposed to a dry lease,which is just an airplane)."

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The preternaturally slim JO looks deep into baseball and finds the Crown of Creation:Homer Simpson would love the newest taste sensation in minor league baseball: the doughnut burger.Head to a Gateway Grizzlies game and this gut-buster could be yours. We kid you not. The Gateway Grizzlies of the Frontier League promised to create "Baseball's Best Burger" in time for the team's opener in late May

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Having dispatched Iraq to nearly universal kudos, President George W. "W" Bush will now dispatch Iran as well. Confidence is so high that the administration is cutting veteran's benefits again. Won't be needed, I guess.

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"Pepys" is pronounced "Peeps" as all English majors know, but few indeed are the English majors with the energy and bravado to convert The Diary of Samuel Pepys into a web log, and what a web log it is, with cross-references and user comments beautifully integrated, all that coding going to prove that there is nothing new under the sun and that Samuel Pepys, fun-loving 17th c. technocrat,

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From the fabootylicious JO:From the opening paragraph of Turning Angel by Greg Iles, #10 on the Publishers Weekly hardcover fiction bestseller list the week of 1/23/06, as quoted in the magazine:"... She bobbed in the current beneath the Highway 61 bridge, naked and unbloodied, not yet gray, limp as a sleeping child. She rolled with the creek, which wound through the woods toward the paper mill

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As for the Feingold censure resolution, Senator Kerry says he will vote for it, Senator Kennedy has not yet decided whether an open, public defiance of the law by the President should be censured or supported.

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Light posting, for obvious reasons, but here is something fine lifted entire from a Salon squib:And who says we don't have a plan for victory?Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, testifying today before the Senate Appropriations Committee: "The plan is to prevent a civil war, and to the extent one were to occur, to have the, from a security standpoint, have the Iraqi security forces deal with it

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The names Kennedy and Kerry share a beginning and ending, so it was easy to cut-and-paste the following letter to send to both of them:Dear Senator Kerry:I am sorely disappointed to see that you did not support Senator Russ Feingold's filibuster against the PATRIOT Act. Senator Feingold offers genuine leadership to the Democratic party on the most vital issue facing the nation, terrorism and the

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Could it be that the mighty Huffington Post, web logging's shining city on a hill, is just a wee bit irrelevant?Today's touted lineup emphasis added:Playboy Says It Wont Pull Jessica Alba Issue Staying On Newsstands...Gyllenhaal, Clooney, Other Stars To Arrive At Oscars In Hybrid Cars... Madonna Shopping For Israeli Home For Kabbalah Study... Greenspan Memoir Bidding Hits $8 Million... Nearing

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Rescued from comments on a Political Animal piece about the very greedy and indiscreet Republican Congressman Randy Duke Cunningham:You know, if we had cameras in all our Representative's and Senator's offices, and had all their phones tapped, so that all of their conversations were monitored... then there would be no more corruption!I, for one, am willing to give up a little more privacy for

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It's been just a little bit too exciting around Rancho Desperado for me to do any more than check in to say ¿Que tal? The little woman, Mrs. Desperado, had a small stroke and is now recovering nicely, we all hope.So far, the only actually amusing note has been that at the moment it happened, she said, "I think I'm having a stroke." It took the learned doctors two days to come to the same

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The president of Harvard has stepped down. This came as no surprise to careful readers of the Boston Globe, which yesterday printed the following razor slicing by one of his "supporters", political scientist Nancy L. Rosenblum:At this point the question is not pro or anti. The question is: Is he effective. Can we see any way in which his great gifts can really be used constructively? Or has

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Since, thankfully, there are no consequences for doing so, I take full responsibility for that guy I shot in the face, the city I drowned, and the war I started against a country that was not about to start a war against me.

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The fabulous JO submits from somewhere in the newsosphere the headline o' the day:White House under fire in Cheney shooting accident

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Field and Stream calls BS on White House spin that Cheney was the victim and the guy he shot in the face was the perpetrator. Brother Dave passes along the judgment of one hunter, a professional, on another, a rank amateur.The Cheney Hunting Accident: A Texan's view of the so-called "Texas hunting protocol"Doug Pike is a Field & Stream contributing editor who covers the outdoors for the Houston

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This, from the Godson via the Matron of Honor, now resident in Oz:Saw a T-shirt in Vienna that was obviously targeted towards geographically-challenged Americans: it was a road sign with a kangaroo on it with a red circle around and a red bar across it, and the words "Austria: No Kangaroos"

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If it happened to me, it would have gone down like this:Hello, 911? Someone's been shot.All the rest would have come in its time. If the event or its participants had been newsworthy, it would have attracted attention within the hour.If there had been someone I should call to tell about it, here's what I would have said:My pal Dick just accidentally shot our buddy Harry in the face.They would

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I came in in fifth place in the Google search "world's nicest butt". If you search here you can indeed find "world's nicest" and also "butt". While you are having this exciting adventure, you may want to continue searching the same archive for feuilletons about Ray Bradbury, Edmund Burke, Nedra Pickler, Assia Weevil the latter two playing an important role in my confessions of a brush cutter.

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The Travelling Wilburys performed "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" for George Harrison's induction in the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame last March with Prince Wilbury (also being inducted that night) taking the guitar part and damn near breaking my heart. Video from You Tube. Tip o' the Desperado tan galan to Blah3 for the link.

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Considering how much they have suffered for their loves, if I were a sheepherder I just might be a little perturbed at all this talk about gay cowboys.And that's not an easy task, being in bed with a sheep, especially if you make the sheep nervous. I'm not going to go on, if you know what I'm talking about.--Gene Wilder

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Special treatment for phone customers, per JO. (sound file).

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That there is still pornography on the Internet, I blame entirely on the St. Augustine Police Department.

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I saw a .sig this morning:To ensure continued quality of service, this e-mail is being monitored by the NSAThat reminded someone else of this oldie:The National Security Agency seeks qualified graduates in math and computer science. To apply: call your mother, and ask for an application."Which reminded me of my abandoned effort to to beef up my Emacs "spook" file. The Emacs command Meta-X spook

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CBS Radio correspondent Elaine Cobb reported that although she had been "keeping a low profile", the woman with a face transplant held a press conference yesterday.

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I'm proud that this lovable web log is the number three result of a search for "desperado with sax". The honor came from these fine entries on White Rose Petroleum Jelly, my favorite sound, and Illinois Jacquet. Of course, coming in third to John Tesh takes quite a bit of bloom off the achievement.

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A common defense of police powers run amuck is that people with nothing to hide have nothing to fear from police powers run amuck. It is not an impressive or persuasive argument.Putting the shoe on the other foot, however, when the chief law enforcement officer of the country, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez of Abu Ghraib refuses to testify under oath about the exciting new Constitutionalness

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Maeuse is the plural of mouse in German, whether referencing the input device or the rodent. It would appear from this that the Swiss have a different relationship with their mouses than we inhibited Americans.Ed's notes: Blogger has untrustworthy umlauts. Item per Brother Dave.

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I'm reading Washington's Crossing by David Hackett Fisher. It is impossible to avoid comparisons between that imperialist British war and today's imperialist American war. I may write more about the book later, but for now there is this, buried in the book's "Historiography" section, way in the back:On February 19, 1777, the Pennsylvania Journal published a "new catechism" in a series of

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I thought I was being satirical about President George W. "W" Bush's percipient observation that "Germany is a really important country. It's right in the heart of Europe."This, however, is satirical brilliance beyond my meager means to convey, other than by quoting in full:Angie, Angie -- they can't say we never triedCould it be a Reagan-Thatcher thing? It's just too soon to tell and I really

Tomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15401665728549199428noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6484160.post-1138034333279430492006-01-23T11:32:00.000-05:002006-01-23T11:38:53.300-05:00

Amber Lynn and her lifelong pal Java the Mutt, just a couple of movie gals, frolicking in the snow, not one of those boring pictures of the blogger's pet lounging around the house like a blogger, but two committed action dogs.Photo by Brother Dave, known as Parmo in his photographic aspect. More dog pics there, or just wait until I run another one.

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This is pretty much the way I feel. All that I have wanted, since I started doing this stuff in 1978, was to write. It's the one thing I've always wanted to do (and have always done). Link via Brother Dave.Ed's note: FWIW, I try not to use the words blog and blogger because they're so ugly.

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I'm sure you'll all be glad to know that I signed up for my Medicare drug benefit like a sheep going to shearing, not because I thought I needed it, but because of a paranoid fear that if I didn't sign something now, before the first deadline, I wouldn't be any further along in understanding by the time of the second deadline, and who knows if there's a third deadline? End result?I was paying

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Brazil is big as President George W. "W" Bush said, but what about Germany? The President can handle it:"Germany is a really important country. It's right in the heart of Europe."These sentient remarks were delivered to the respective leaders of these countries. I wonder what he would say to Crown Prince Alois of Lichtenstein. Judging from the link, he wouldn't call it "an insignificant little

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Aptly named amateur fumer and fomenter Michael Fumento just got canned from his job of praising chemical farming because he turned out to be in the chemical tank.The "Hudson Institute scholar" wrote a book praising Monsanto after soliciting them for $60,000 to pay him while worked on it. Money quote, literally, emphasis added:The Monsanto grant, he says, flowed from the company to the Hudson

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My recent item, Inattention, evil, incompetence, we never expected a trifecta is Number Ten on the Top Ten Results of a Google blog search for "evil Cheney". And a friendly Desperado greeting to all our new readers from No Such Agency. Ed's note: Spell checker did not know "Google", offered "googol".

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"If you don't want it known, don't use the phone."Vice president Nelson Rockefeller, 1971.

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Following up on my assertion that McCain = Bush - Torture, Brother Dave offers:Bush = Nixon - BrainBush = Reagan - HeartFinally, in honor of the Freudian little zero's fixation on his father, I give youBush = Bush - Bush

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How to question Samuel Alito when all he will say is, "I might have to rule on that someday." A leftover weapon, never used, from the Harriet Miers nomination, from the Boston Globe back in October:How to question Harriet MiersBy Rashi Fein | October 14, 2005A FEW DAYS ago I had occasion to visit the John Joseph Moakley United States Courthouse in Boston. The building is adorned with numerous

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In re last week's item, You personally, not symbolically, are under surveillance, a Raw Story report entitled, White House outrage over wiretap story is 'smokescreen'. The article, reporting on a Frank Rich column, argues that the White House is covering up something bigger than what has already been revealed. Here is the last paragraph:That the White House's over-the-top outrage about the

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The always smooth-running JO reports that among the lapsed domain names at his name provider islaxatives2go.com

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Tennis-ball-detector reading off the meterNo, it's not one of those boring pictures of the blogger's pet lounging around the house like a blogger, but Ginger the action dog.Photo by Brother Dave, known as Parmo in his photographic aspect. More dog pics there, or just wait until I run another one.Ed's note: The first two Golden Retriever photos featured the current queen, Amber, but this one is of

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Abramoff and ABSCAM both start out at the beginning of the alphabet, but Talking Points Memo raises the point that ABSCAM never got to Z and that the same thing is likely to happen with Abramoff. Why? The FBI stopped the ABSCAM fish-in-a-barrel investigation because members of Congress kept jumping in the barrel. The Abramoff investigation, too, might have to be stopped before they catch too

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You'll recall my suspicions that I was being trolled by Republicans in the comments to my post You personally, not symbolically, are under surveillance. Morons.org had the same problem last summer, magnified by hundreds.

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Let's hope this isn't all there is to the war on terror. These are terrible stories of human tragedy at the hands of our government. First they came for the Jews.

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I've been sitting on this one from Brother Dave for a while now, trying to make sense out of it, but it just isn't happening, so here, you try. The blockquote below is from Instapundit, explaining, as is his wont, how wise, foresightful, and just gosh-darned cool is War Commander-in-Chief George W. "W" Bush. You may experience side effects from reading this. Emphasis bumped here and there in

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Corrupt politician Tom Delay channeled money from everyone, Indian tribes, Russian oilmen, hiding behind a fake "family charity". In an e-mail, DeLay spokesman Kevin Madden said the donations were not a factor in the congressional activities of the Texas Republican and former House majority leader."Mr. DeLay makes decisions and sets legislative priorities based on good policy and what is best

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A rant from the euphoniously named Dr. Dan Kalikow, who has seen the blue oval. Anybody else note with the appropriate bemusement that these daze, ANY member of ANY level of government, when they are appearing on TV in their Official Role, really WANTS to have one of those BIG BLUE OVALS WITH WHITE BORDERS labeled in Times Roman mounted on the wall behind their head, like in the White House press

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A couple of small incidents this week have given me a chill or two: First, I posted a paranoid rant, You, personally, not symbolically, are under surveillance. There was a brief mention of Bill Clinton, along with Joshua, Napoleon, and Charles deGaulle as examples of national leaders who had managed to defeat spies and terrorists without resorting to universal surveillance. The post went up

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From a year-end roundup of supposedly "weird and wacky words our pols uttered" by Ann McFeatters:Rep. Charles Rangel (D-N.Y.), who is black, was asked on public TV about the president:"Well, I really think that he shatters the myth of white supremacy once and for all.""Ouch," quoth McFeatters.

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Lifted from a .sig:How many Bush officials to screw in a lightbulb?None. There's nothing wrong with that light bulb. There is no need to change anything. We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds. People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn't work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that

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The headline is the teaser for a David Brooks column in the New York Times that you have to pay for to read the rest. But fear not, the Rude Pundit has read it for you. Let's just say he gives a literal meaning to the phrase tear him a new one. It's not pretty, so click with care, but then torture isn't pretty, is it?

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Why would President George W. "W" Bush fail to use the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to give him warrants to fight terror? The court is a rubber-stamp secret court that issues ex post facto warrants. What more could any honest authoritarian ask for? The answer lies in the very name of the court and the Act that enabled it, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. They are not

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Even if we are not headed, as I believe, for a Fourth of July moment, things have certainly come to a melancholy pass, thus this melancholy image from Brother Dave.

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From Dummranger's Sister, labelled "a very brave man".

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