Then there’s the matter of Rudeboy Giuliani managing to outrage even a staunch loyalist Bushie like Christine “Stop and Frisk” Todd Whitney by lying his ass off about air quality in the lower east side. Well, you know, those people didn’t vote for him anyway. Maybe he’d like to be Pretzeldent to hold off the lawsuits for a few years with spurious claims of executive privilege. Being a whackjob is one thing. Being a politically corrupt malfeasor of a mayor of the biggest city in America is another.

Anyway, if the so-called GOP base will support this guy, it pretty much proves there’s no morality in the moral majority, just a mindless obsession with domination of other people’s thoughts and actions. And shredding the American Constitution while they’re at it.

I’d vote for any decent dog of whatever color against any Republican so my opinion doesn’t count for much, but if Hagel doesn’t run, the Republicans don’t seem to have a candidate worth anything more than derision, indictment, or bankruptcy by class action civil suit for wrongful death.

horse feathers, michaelj. Looking back, he put the command center exactly where Atta and the other nihilistic shitheads struck – but who thought that the World Trade Center’s twin 110 story towers would be gone – GONE – in a sequence of events that took a single hour? And that, in catastrophically losing the twin towers – we would also lose WTC-7 (where the command center was) – which was what? – 50 stories tall? – before the sun went down?

Rudy has a fouled up personal life, but he was the one real leader who emerged and did his job unfailingly and without hesitation on that infamous day.

Rudy is OK, but Obama appeals to me

The fact that Republican ‘base’ voters would support a guy with weirder than Hollywood (or Bollywood) private life after they spent $70 mil of our money on the voyeur pervert Ken Starr, just so they can win ought to make sane people question their motives.

But no matter – I am smitten with the junior senator from Illinois, who made his announcement in front of the old state capital in Springfield, and invoked Lincoln to great effect

I like the term Penn & Teller used in their (brilliant, btw) gun control video… “tit sling.”

(context: a female shopowner who kept guns all over the place, including a pistol down her bosom.)

Blaming bBattlefield Earth on science fiction is pretty base calumny. I suppose if Kurt Vonnegut was a science fiction writer, Tom Pynchon is too. I guess Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell is period science fiction, and Lempriere’s Dictionary. (H. G. Wells or Chas. Dickens–well, that’s a very close call, and Dickens was obviously aching to write science fiction.)

Every one a better writer than a hack like, say, Ernest Hemingway. Maybe not a good example since almost anybody writes better. Except William Faulkner.

Who’d have thought the secret to longevity would be selling bras. As second careers go, this sounds interesting, sinced I’ve never really seen a bosom I didn’t find attractive. But I’ve always been a fool for long legs, and I fear my good heart and naivete might be taken advantage of in this business. And my IRA won’t make it to 95. As far as nursing in public, I get queasy thinking about what’s going on in the minds of officious men that have a problem with that. Calling Mr. Tobias. Justice Thomas?

I bet they have some interesting things in their library