Big Ol' Smitty

Rassmussen Poll Today (national) Dem Primary Obama: 32% Clinton: 32% Edwards: 17% Richardson: 3% Biden: 1% Dodd: 1% Clark: 1%

New York Times I think they have a Republican senate in NY, so this is unlikely to pass.

Man, I'm eating a bowl of frozen strawberries (whole), peaches, blueberries, raspberries, & blackberries mixed with a little bit of vanilla yogurt. I have recently discovered that I prefer frozen fruit, straight outta the freezer, to room temperature or even moderately chilled fruit.

Hey, I3K likes Morrissey. I bet your favorite song is Bengali in Platforms. Am I right?

I've never heard the term before, but I would assume it's just a party out in the middle of a field. We have 'em here in Kentucky sometimes.

Update~! As I was typing the post above, I went to the SPLC website and saw this: http://www.splcenter.org/news/item.jsp?aid=250

I read about this in the Southern Poverty Law Center newsletter this weekend. I think the civil trial is underway, and I wouldn't be surprised if this became a national news story before too long. Complete article is here. at the mother's quote. Here is Billy Ray in the nursing home where he now stays.

They always do closeups of her ass on the commercials.

I was at dinner with fiancee and another couple (that I don't know very well) last night. I was talking about how I was teaching about the Holocaust. They asked what I was doing to teach it and I, without thinking, started joking about how I was going to have my classes do a Holocaust Idol TV show. Luckily, they liked tasteless humor. I one day wish to live in a world where you can tell a hilarious AIDS joke.

I was thinking about "Tapped my cell/and the phone in the basement" for the NSA Wiretapping thread. Well, I wish I was.

The rich people would just hire a bunch of poor people to kill other poor people.

According to Newt Gingrich & Rush Limbaugh, this is all liberals' fault.

This is actually not true. http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/04/post_3474.html#016302

http://www.harpers.org/archive/2004/11/0080278

Another faux Rambo: http://www.prospect.org/weblog/2007/04/post_3481.html#016310

They'll be breaking the law if they do.

Cock-smoking wannabe tough guys who are blaming the victims for not going all Chuck Norris on the gunman can go straight to hell (hmm...imagine someone from the National Review castigating others for not being brave while they sit back & play keyboard commando...this has never happened before). Liviu Librescu again: Students in room 207:

Reuters Shit.

I regret nothing. It was clearly a joke. Hey, don't blame him, he took humor lessons at The Don Imus Cowboy Humor Ranch.

This guy was a real hero. Makes me sick to my stomach to read this. from the Jerusalem Post

The "refusal of North Africans to assimilate" may have something to do with the provocations of police forces, and of their minister for most of the past 5 years (and presidential candidate), Nicolas Sarkozy, who regularly insults jobless youth from ethnic minorities, taunts them and orders the police to harass them, and has steadily toughened laws and reduced budgets for preventive action - prefering to send riot police to the suburbs after having eliminated permanent local police forces.