Entries from January 2005

Oh. My. Goodness.

Tasty Bite

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I cook a lot of indian, and these are good for a second course with leftovers, or a huge pot of rice on those (very) rare occasions I’m feeling lazy… This is just wonderful. I’m sure no one cares, but [...]

Categories: Food

Peter Recommends III

Sinfest - A comic strip he’s been sending me all day. This one’s funny, too. And this one I thought was hilarious.

Categories: Entertainment

Neil Cavuto Used Bad Words!

About the UN! TiVo (bless ‘im) recorded Your World today, so I just watched the Common Sense section. It’s not nearly as good in print, but here it is (if you have nothing else to do at 10.55 tonight and the TVs on, turn on FOXnews):

True Colors (Emphases mine)

So the [...]

Categories: War and Peace

No. 13

Swazi king chooses wife number 13

Peter will remember when King Mswati III chose his last bride, about four months ago according to this article, though it seems like more like six. It was preblog, but it was just fascinating. This girl was a beauty queen, and she was at this pageant and then [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Brit Blogging

I had to interrupt Special Report with Brit Hume because Wendell Goler’s report has yet another moron from some think tank going on and on about how understandable it is that the Sunnis are concerned they’ll be turned into second class citizens by the eeeevil Shias and Kurds (despite their protestations to the opposite, that [...]

Categories: War and Peace

PSA

Hemming pants with a cat is murder on the epidermis.

Categories: Catblogging

A Good Question

Okay, I get the difference between moonbats-in-suits Ted Kennedy and Babs Boxer with Bush and Bill Frist, but the Zell Millers and John McCains of the world, those “centrist” politicians. I mean, is there any difference between John McCain, a nominal republican, and a nominal Democrat, for instance from Georgia, where the rural [...]

Categories: Politics

An Iraqi’s Voting Guide

Hat’s off to Chrenkoff for his, but this one has that personal touch.

A man in Baghdad (Najma’s Uncle Ahmed) debates with himself whether or not to vote on Sunday. He’s reading the Hitchhiker’s Guide, too, so he must be deeply intelligent and full of witty insight.

A telling paragraph:

Moreover, all the above discussion [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I Hate To Put Down the Kool-Aid

But Cheney’s parka was a bit inappropriate. I know he has nice wool coats. I’ve seen them.

Cheney’s green parka and boots stand out

On another topic, I wonder what Kraft Foods thinks about Kool-Aid’s new, and widely recognized, connotations.

Categories: Politics

Hello, Warren

Legendary investor Warren Buffett had nothing but praise Friday for Proctor & Gamble Co.’s $57 billion deal for Gillette, which helped him make $776 million — in one day.

Is he single?

Categories: Business & Media

Hillary In a Crystal Ball

Hillary Clinton gets religion and an AK47, by Gerard Baker

How far will the liberal New York senator go in her quest to become America’s first female president?

Very funny. Yet prescient. Perhaps.

Categories: Politics

Rupert Must Be So Proud

NSFW!

TOP Guns in the RAF’s oldest squadron have named six of their jets after gorgeous Sun Page 3 girls. Crews of No 1 (Fighter) Squadron are flying sorties over Afghanistan in Harriers with the girls’ names emblazoned proudly on the nose cones. They asked permission to commandeer [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day XXII

Hugh Hewitt:

A caller suggests that Bill Clinton sounds like Uncle Rico in Napoleon Dynamite.  The consensus among those who have seen the film is that this is spot-on. 

Categories: Politics

Eh?

My father’s not a Democrat. Nor are either of my grandfathers.

Categories: Politics

Ewww

This should make every parents’ toes curl. If you don’t have kids, as I don’t, your toes should curl anyway. Read at least the first set of quotes.

Categories: People and Current Events