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August 05, 2006
Coffee Snorters
File under "God wouldn't be that good to us.... would he???
New York Congressman Charlie Rangel is putting his money where his mouth is. The 76-year-old Democrat, who's served 35 years in the House, says he'll retire from Congress if Democrats don't retake control of the House in November.Rangel says, "It just seems like America is so frustrated and fed up like I am, and if she's not then I may have to say maybe it's me."
Now if we could just get Alec Baldwin to move to France.
Helen Thomas on a treadmill! that New Republic is worth every cent of the subscription price:
The odd thing about her awards and citations is that they almost never mention any specific contributions she has made to journalism save for being female and, well, old. The usual path to journalistic fame, other than appearing regularly on television, is to break a major story--Ida Tarbell and Standard Oil, Bob Woodward and Watergate, et cetera. But Thomas has no connection to any such body of work. She has never had a big scoop or been a finalist for a Pulitzer Prize. Indeed, of the many people who recognize Helen Thomas, it's unlikely that one in 100 can recall a single article she has ever written. She was simply there, a fact made evident in her previous books, Front Row at the White House; Thanks for the Memories, Mr. President; and Dateline: White House, all of which reflect little more than an insider's nostalgic congeniality.
This really bites.
The Hamster gets dissed by one of the Little People. Some folks just have no idea of who they're messing with...
Well at least they left them something to eat...
Three naked men found walking in Orebro, Sweden told police their clothes were snatched from them by some unknown females.The victims said they had no choice but to walk home through the city at 4 a.m., The Local reported.
"The young men were completely naked," police spokesman Per Clavell said. "The only thing they had with them was a bag with strawberries."
Posted by Cassandra at August 5, 2006 08:29 AM
Comments
Naked with strawberries? Sounds like the beginnings of a serious wave of sex crime.
But how progressyve of the police to provide
escort services...
Posted by: Cricket at August 5, 2006 11:27 AM
What I can't understand is why they didn't bring dipping chocolate and champagne.
Barbarians.
Posted by: Princess Leia in a Cheese Danish Bikini at August 5, 2006 11:34 AM
What I can't understand is why they didn't bring dipping chocolate and champagne.
Man do I have an answer to that one! But you'd definitely lose your PG 13 rating! :-o
Posted by: Ruh Roh at August 5, 2006 11:41 AM
I don't think that Slate author person did her homework on the word suck. There is nothing about how a person might suck so bad its good. Nothing.
Posted by: Pile On® at August 5, 2006 11:47 AM
Frankly Mr. On, one of the reasons the editorial staff posted that particular article was that we were hoping for a Letter from the Institute on the deep philosophical implications of Suckitude and its effects on the every day lives of desperate men and women as they struggle with the despair of an America in which, alas and alack!, Hope does not seem to be On The Way.
Posted by: Princess Leia in a Cheese Danish Bikini at August 5, 2006 12:00 PM
Well, there is Major suckitude, sucking majorly and just general sucking. Then there is the grand designation of being a Hoover. Rainbow sucking means it covers just about everything; Dyson sucking means nothing will clog it, and so on and so forth.
I know this is not the erudite epistle for which you were hoping and for which the Institute is renowned, but even Ebb and Flow is a form of sucking action.
Posted by: UN Doctor at August 5, 2006 12:27 PM
What were they wearing: Armani or Prada?!
Posted by: vet66 at August 5, 2006 01:01 PM