Literal Barrage

This makes me physically ill: Did I Violate the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban?
The smugness, the clinical "precision" of this article and the barely contained excitement that this monster uses to describe the taking of a human life is beyond contemptible. It is vile beyond description. Perhaps Mr. Hern would have liked [...]

Note to McDonald's: you sell food, not image. I'm sorry to say, but carrying a Mickey D's bag down the street just doesn't sport the caché of, say, wearing Air Jordans.
In other words, fire your ad man, cause "I'm [hatin'] it."

Don't know if I should be finding this as humorous as I do, but here goes:
A convicted child molestor (Kevin Kinder) was beaten into an uncoscious state by a former victim of his when he was placed in a holding cell with the former victim.
And here's the best quote from the story:

The former [...]

Perhaps all of this John Street business really is just about wanton corruption.
Hey, either way, if Street goes down, in court or on Election Day, I'll be extremely happy.

Just heard Rush Limbaugh cop to being addicted to painkillers live, on-air. Checked Drudge and he had it posted w/quotes within 30 seconds.
Now that's wickedly efficient.
Of course, since Drudge has the butt-ugliest website I've ever seen, I'll have to dock him half a point for it.

I was reading this story on the wiretapping/bugging of Philadelphia mayor John Street's office and happened across this paragraph:

One of the FBI raids focused on Keystone Information & Financial Services, a Mount Airy business that was awarded a contract in 2002 that netted $60,600 from the city for collection of taxes.
The FBI also searched [...]

How, oh how can an entire network jump the shark? If last night's "Must" See TV (combined with lackluster debuts of Law and Order and The West Wing) serve(s) as any indication, NBC is firmly astride Fonzie's bike, glancing triumphantly downward towards Jaws' long-lost cousin.
How has the network of Seinfeld fame been [...]