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According to Hill Buzz, “Cupcakes are da bomb!” The British intelligence agency M16 has managed to hack into Al Qaeda’s online magazine “Inspire”( which “inspires” jihadists to make bombs and plan terrorists attacks against infidels). The brilliant Brits replaced the magazine’s bomb making recipe section with cupcake recipes. Ingenious. It’s like something out of a…

As you can tell English is probably their second or third language. No matter. This is one of my favorite versions of “Sweet Jane”. Italy’s Poddighe Power Trio is reviewed in English. Along with some nice Lou Reed mp3s. www.Poddighe.com Cross Posted at Power and Control

Remember Pee Bottle and Bull Crap from the old cartoon series? Well they are at it again. (just my way of avoiding the subject) Whenever I try to use a public restroom, everything freezes up! No matter how badly I need to go, nothing happens if I’m not at home. I can urinate when I’m…

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about the nixing of bisexual baseball players by a gay team which apparently believes that bisexual is “not gay enough.”  Sure, people have a right to discriminate in the free association sense, but it has long baffled me why people care so passionately about the sex lives…

Salvador Dali said that, and I would tend to agree. So today I went rock-shopping, and found a few nice boulders. Those two were three to five feet. While the stones in this aggregate are only three to five inches: In terms of ultimate time, aggregate is temporary. A rock is a stone is a…

Yep. Palin can’t run for President according to the professionals. “The field isn’t set yet, not by a long shot,” Palin said during a visit to Gettsyburg, Pa. “It’s going to change up a lot. And I think there will be more strong candidates jumping in.” Will Palin be one of them? The political professionals…

An opinion column in the Wall Street Journal notices a serious Problem with a Palin Campaign for President. She hasn’t been properly vetted. No. Really. That is what they said. Mrs. Palin’s initial mistreatment, by a press (on the right and the left) that was both jeering and patronizing, has in fact resulted in an…

One of the most frustrating aspects of the Internet is attempting to determine what the facts are in a given situation. For example, this morning I saw an interesting Drudge link: Blogger’s First Person Abortion Posting Draws Fire… The above is a true statement, no question about it. Beyond that, who knows? There is a…

Sarah Palin says: “I think that all of our energy subsidies need to be relooked at today and eliminated,” Palin told Real Clear Politics at a coffee shop in Dillsburg, Pa. “And we need to make sure that we’re investing and allowing our businesses to invest in reliable energy products right now that aren’t going…

Kevin Drum makes an interesting point about where the money for politics comes from. …in the real world, political parties need an institutional base. Parties need money. And parties need organizational muscle. The Republican Party gets the former from corporate sponsors and the latter from highly organized church-based groups. The Democratic Party, conversely, relied heavily…

While it is not a new subject at this blog, yesterday I stumbled into another incident of restroom tyranny. At a local bar/restaurant I’ve visited before, I went to the back to use the men’s room, and to my surprise there was a line of three men. Something about their sheepish behavior reminded me of…

George Will does a masterful job of proving his irrelevance. Via Crooks and Liars. (It figures) The Crooks? The Liars? do have one thing pegged. Palin is spooking the Republican establishment. The Republican establishment is really spooked at the idea that Sarah Palin might run for President in 2012 after she decided to take a…

What does the above Instapundit screen shot mean? Three Sarah Palin (www.SarahPac.com) ads for her bus tour. And she is asking for donations. For what purpose? The adverts don’t say. But it is “free money” (fewer FERC restrictions) that could be used for anything since she is “not running” for office. Yet. Smart cookie. It…

I have been too busy to blog these last few days, but today is Memorial Day, which is a day of remembrance, so I thought a few links would be in order. Glenn Reynolds linked a really, really great post by Walter Russell Mead about how to remember those who fell in the Iraq War,…

Coco and I were both reassured to learn that hot tubs are more dangerous than pit bulls. (Which probably explains why Coco does not like the hot tub.) And if you find that surprising, consider that Americans are sixteen times more likely to be killed by a five gallon bucket than by a pit bull.…

Stacy McCain has a pretty big roundup, and this brutally concise summary: Yeah, never mind that there seem to be exactly two alternatives: Weiner, a member of Congress with a high security clearance, was the victim of a federal crime involving a breach of his online communications accounts; or Weiner sent a picture of his penis to…

Yeah, yeah, I’m sick of water. But that’s not what this post is about. Having recently taken a crash course in hot tub ownership, I have learned that one of the most irritating aspects of the experience is having to regularly replace the blasted hot tub covers, which have an infuriating habit of soaking up…

Or maybe more accurately, in his boxers. So, what seems to have happened is that Representative Weiner accidentally tweeted a very salacious, Brett Favre-esque picture of his appellatory appendage to the whole world instead of one pretty 22-year-old, then spent the next few hours frantically shrieking “Undo! Undo!” and claiming he’d been hacked. Keep an eye on…

It has been a while since I did an Ulsterman update so here is an interesting tit bit. Q: Can you repeat what you told me before – how Richard Daley stepping down and Bill Daley coming to the White House, and then Rahm Emanuel becoming Chicago’s Mayer. How all of that relates back directly…

People tell me ridicule is the best medicine for a bad politician. So I have decided I need a new way of referring to the Resident. In honor of Donald Trump I have decided to refer to the Resident as often as possible as: the man from Chicago ne (Hawaii) Nice turn of phrase don’t…