schadenfreude (SHäʹdÉ™nfroid’É™/), noun: Malicious enjoyment derived from observing someone else’s misfortune. Okay, maybe not full-on schadenfreude, but these stories certainly induced a certain wry smile or two from Yours Truly. JammieWearingFool: Somali pirates receive ransom, hilarity ensues. This is the…
…Guy Benson, Mary Katherine Ham and Ed Morrisey, they make it. A pull-quote is in order: What follows is by no means comprehensive, but it does shed some much-needed light on a number of Obama’s positions, statements, and associations about…
…Or your vocabulary will become your master. Or summat like that, I dunno. Seems as though Aron was terribly, mysteriously ahead of the curve when he called out our current crop of politicians for their overuse of The Sphinx’s favorite…
…Heavy with links! It’s time, folks, for another massive download of Links Of Interest that I’ve managed to pack-ratsave for your enjoyment, so here goes. Near-zero-G Mentos & Diet Coke! Yay, science! I’ve run into some funny automated censorship software…
We’ve already noted the overt visual similarities between John McCain and Saul Tigh, but this weekend’s All-Sarah-Palin-All-The-Time Media Circus caused several observant bloggers (whose names/URLs I’ve unfortunately Cmd+W’d and thus are lost to the ether) to note a not dissimilar…
From CNN’s “breaking news” headlines area just now: I mean, I know Joe Biden can be a bit of a bore at times, but adding insult to the whole not-choosing-him-for-Vice-President thing is just mean. Heh. And the breathless press waits…
I’ve made no bones about my general dislike for John “Maverick” McCain nor my sore disappointment at his ascendancy to the GOP presidential ticket. However, I believe that I have found my Peter-Pan-flying-happy-thought/Harry-Potter-produce-a-patronus-thought concept that will allow me to pull…
Y’know, even though there’s a lot of stuff I disagree with the President on *cough*HarrietMiersNoChildLeftBehindEnergyPolicyMcCainFeingold*cough*, I still think the man’s a fundamentally decent human being. He comes in for way too much criticism from way too many people. That being…
…Yes, yes, Barack, but where do they bury the survivors? The passes that Obama continuously receives from the media are seriously starting to tick me off. George Bush is prone to malaprops, certainly, while B.H.O. is prone to gaffes. One…
Glenn Reynolds noted that Rachel Lucas and Charlotte Hays were basically unimpressed by Barack Obama’s campaign trail rhetoric “calling out” critics of his wife. Specifically, on Good Morning America he said “If they think that they’re going to try to…
