Sen. Clinton to spend Thanksgiving with troops in Afghanistan, visit Iraq
Does she remember the last time she tried something like this? Does she remember the reaction at the MSG 9-11 concert when ahem a Clinton hit the stage?

Those Lips, Those Lies by Michael Musto
The money:
Yes, Jackson's aggressively weird, and inspiringly enough, this has united a nation in political disarray! His excesses bond us against a collective enemy—he's much more popular to attack than Iraq—while fueling our desperate desire for the charges to be true. No, we're not rooting for anyone to have been molested, but we want Jackson to be the repository of all our fears so we can agree on something, send him away, and bring on the sunshine. We couldn't get Rosie or Martha to melt—and we can't even find bin Laden or Hussein—but if Jacko would just agree to be a pedophile, we could have our kook and eat him too.

Euro zone in crisis after deficit deal
Oh how I love when I'm right. Below I said the EU was imploding, and then I catch sight of this beauty. Their two biggest economies can't meet the requirements they demand of all their member countries for a third year running...rules the Germans designed!

Ahh, the deliciousness! The two biggest profligates demand the other countries to toe the line, but they be given a free pass. Which means that the countries that conformed have just been given a free pass to thumb their noses at any rule they feel screws them.

Yeah, you EU guys are a big threat to US economic dominance. Excuse me while I go watch the currency markets beat themselves a pound of flesh out of the euro's ass.

BOSOX PURSUIT OF SCHILLING STUNS YANKS
"It was like somebody threw a firecracker on the table," one official with knowledge of the meetings said.
In other words, Danny, you wrote your lead based on third hand hearsay from some buddy of yours who probably runs the food table in the Yankee Stadium clubhouse. Epstein said--last week--he was going to go after Schilling. Not so big a shock considering they're hiring his friend and former manager.

Also, were you at the Giants-Buccaneers game last night? (LeatherPenguin calls Advance sports desk, asks for Graziano; hangs up when Danny picks up phone) Didn't think so; why would they blow the money on a baseball beat writer?
You scammed it from someone else's article and printed it as your own.
Plagiarizing asshat, you are!

Kyoto & Europe
Go ahead, you maroons, install your own Kyoto-styled protocols on your stagnant, staggering economies. Watch your energy costs rise while your productivity tanks. Keep calling Americans fat fools; we'll keep shunning your products while your population slowly totters into nursing homes to die. Whether you like it or not, nothing you can do--especially the EU which is on the verge of imploding--can restrain the American juggernaut.

Ex-prober: Ferry safety lax
NO! Ya think? The place has been a pit for well over the last decade, and all the Island's elected officials knew it. They didn't do anything because their existence was predicated on the same unions feeding their campign coffers.

The worse ignorance of the mess down at the docks was from our local fishwrap. The S.I. Advance should have been all over this story, but they, too, turned a blind eye to the whole affair. Fer chrissake, one of the damn boats was named after their freakin' founder! If anyone had a vested interest in making sure the ship bearing Pappa Si Newhouse's name wasn't a potential charnal house of the sea it was the bastards on Fingerboard Road.

CNN Discovers the Gutter
This is so wrong, beyond the Cory crap.... Yes, Jacko is a whacko, but for all the bitching about FOX being biased, how many major news nets have already poisoned the jury pool in this shitride?

One Book, Two Very Different Covers
Krugman, you are so farking screwed. Do you realize that your inane reaction ("undignified") will feed Luskin's Legions for like, at least the reast of the year? You're gonna have to burn the stuff printed, burn the publisher, burn your agent in the UK. Hell, boy, you're gonna have to go California and suck Arnold's schlong!!!

More MOABy Goodness
I wanna see the video!

Hero of the Week Award

Pistols Get Screwed Again
The three most important punk bands were the Ramones, the Clash and the Sex Pistols. How the Pistols are denied while Jackson Browne, Bob Seger and Prince get the nod is beyond my comprehension. Sure, they are all excellent performers, but when someone says "Punk Rock" just about everyone's visual image is Johnny and Sid sneering and spitting back at them.

The Pistols were the ones who put punk on the map. "God Save the Queen" and "Anarchy in the U.K." are classics; "Never Mind the Bollocks" an all time Top Ten album. Denying them their due is just bloody stupid.

CUNY wants more money
No. Screw you. Cut the fat off your ass and then maybe, MAYBE, we can talk. You're so screwed that a MOAB is probably the only way to fix you.

You send "teachers" into the school system who cannot spell. FUCK YOU!

Telegraph | News | Why this protest is deeply shameful
because you are an Asshat?

The Onion A.V. Club | Berkeley Breathed
WooHoo. Now beat all those maroons.

The Volokh Conspiracy
Machine Racism! OOH! Ain't that gnarly?

Dave Barry's Blog

BBC Reporters' log: Bush in Britain
Pretty much shows that all the sturm n drang (sp--who cares?) about legions of protesters amounted to hyperbole. The menu at Buck House reads to have been pretty boring. Yo, W! Bring that Windsor girl to Crawford and show her an old school barbecue!

My favorite bit was this one, by some bloke named Tim Donovan:
But he said it was incredibly important for those of us who believe the way forward is peace, to hold events such as this as a counterpoint to the official events. He also said the war in Iraq had been devastating for the insecurity it brings. (emphasis mine)
What's up with THAT, dude? "of us"? I mean, you're a BBC reporterdroid...I thought you guys were all objective and all.

USATODAY.com - 'Family Guy' may return
Baby Stewie Lives!!!

Red Sox take aim at Andy
This is just Epstein playing mind games with George. The BoSox wouldn't pay the dough Pett's gonna cost, and there is No Way Andy would sign with Boston...he's got too much pinstripe in his bloodstream.

Stupid White Moore
Fatboy's book get reamed.

Colorado Studying Eliminating 12th Grade
If this isn't the dumbest thing I read about today, I will be shocked. It reeks of "teacher's union scam." instead of dealing with 17-18 year old kids who are at the point where they are ready to take the world by storm and are ready to question everything, ship them out! Replace them with drooling little tykes who are much easier to deal with!

Nuts. Just plain nuts. When I hit college, I found most of my fellow students were clueless, and the teachers all thought the same thing. The first paper I handed in to my English 101 teacher had a note scrawled under the "A" at the top of the page: "See me." I walked up to the desk and asked him what was the problem. "Look," he said. "You're getting an "A" for the class, but don't just go through the motions. These other assholes bore the crap out of me. You should read some of the shit they handed in."

Terrorists with Tofu breath
Actually a rather bland rehash of the environmental storm trooper movement, but i couldn't resist the title.

Superserious Godhead
My Best Friends on the Planet (even though they never pay their bets).

This song is mine. "Working" is an all-timer. "Bobby" makes you laugh.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Still crazy about JFK
This is just some of the most puerile (sp?) dumb-ass shit ever.

President Kennedy has had an influence from the grave that he could never have achieved in the Oval Office. Most topically, his death led to the paranoid cosseting of presidents that results in the current one coming to London next week with his own mobile operating theatre and a battalion of bodyguards.

We wanted to send the 101st, but they're kinda busy at the moment.

France, feeling threatened, seeks union with Germany
Frogs, feeling neutered, asks help from former rapist.

Mike Lupica: Poor teams leave us cold
The Dolan Losers should all be shot.

Karen Hunter: Issue of race still stains America
You are still a little hip-hop loser, K. No thoughts, no insights, no clue.

Hey Rosie! You're 2 for 2
Your lawsuit sank and your play sucks!

The Dartmouth Online
too much fun.... must go to bed

BW Online | November 13, 2003 | A New York State of Mind for the Jets
Not. Gonna. Happen.

How to be a Crack Whore
Jeezus, Boss. whaddthefuck?

My Wife Kicks Your ASS!
MY WIFE CAN KICK YOUR RED SOX ASS

---slides into a corner to cry about pathetic girlie men

Greek Jewish leaders denounce remarks by "Zorba" composer Theodorakis
No Americans at your Games, you asshats. just keep digging the ditch.

Watch the NY Post go Totally English
Hey you! Be dickheads, fuck off! Dee rates on the same scale with the local, big-time cover-band assholes. And his drummer is someone I call friend (fuck yourself, tony. OH I should say AJ...blow me you dumb guido asshat). So back off and don't be a raging asshole.

Custodians SUCK
It's refreshing to see the first person shooting comes from New Dorp.

This is my High. Even though they have gone to hell in a handbag. And I'm not talking about this article. They added the tag "Cougers" to the name of the house team, for what reason, God don't know. There has not been a cougar on SI since...ever?

They hire absolute idiots--but friends of friends--to teach the knackers. Which means no one learns anything. Alumni steer clear of the joint.

They deserve to burn.

I remember the day when we had a dust-up in the handball courts and the farking Moonbats™ all called it a race riot. Camera crews came a-storming. Useless bastards. John Johnson from Channel 7 climbed out of his van and asked me and a friend to go on camera. I looked at him and laughed, while my friend Manny kept pulling on my sleeve.

"We gotta go, Red. We gotta go."

"Fuck off. I'll be on TV."

"FUCK TV! Bobbie's getting beat and Danny's going gun!"

(another friend, Bobby Barile, had started the whole damn mess because he wouldn't give up the paddleball court without a bet on the floor. That was the ignition. Everything else was just pent-up bullshit.)

"Danny just went WAR! Fuck this TV guy!"

I tried to steal John Johnson's camera and Manny hit a member of the poor fool's crew across the head with a rock, and we went and dived into the brawl.

Next day, Advance Assholes called it a "Race Riot."

It was a punch-out over a paddleball bet. That's all.

We all laughed. Manny, "Yo, Spic," asked if one of us white crackers could give him a hood.
"You, Rojo," he said to me. "Your fucking name means rope. Let's hang us a guido motherfucker."

Here Comes the WhiteWash
Hey, you fuck. Ask the dog. The dog knows. Find out who got bit.

==/sorry for the inside joke

LA Weekly: Features: Uncensored Gore
Does anyone remember why this clown ever mattered? I mean, jeez, who really gives a shit what he thinks?

Judge: No Winner in Rosie O'Donnell Case
now go home and suck on your favorite lolly.

Screw Ratner and Pinch
NO! NO! NO! NO!NO! NO!NO! NO!NO! NO!
These bastrds got all the rope they needed and now they deserve to hang. Read the damn contract, whiteshoes:

While everyone wants the building to go up, the stakes are all on Mr. Ratner’s side. Written into the agreement between Mr. Ratner and the city was a stipulation that Mr. Ratner had to begin construction in 2004; failure to obtain the financing for it kills the deal. That means the state gets its development lot, and the $85.6 million condemnation fees, whether Mr. Ratner builds there or not.

"We understood that the tenant market might be weak, and we had the developer assume an absolute obligation to pay all condemnation costs," said a source at the ESDC. "The Times is either helping this great building go up, or they’re paving the way for another building to rise."

SCREW YOU BASTARDS! You had the city chase people off their property, upset countless lives, because you said you could pull this off. So don't you freaking dare try and pull off everyone now that you realize you bit off more than you could chew. You arrogant bastards.

And "Hey Yo! Pinch?" Like the article says, where the hell you gonna go? Because I can tell you now, you threaten to pull out of this city if it doesn't knuckle under, your mastehead is gone, asshat. You ain't near enough a member of the NYC "community" that we don't all go wolf on your corporate ass.

And we'll burn all of Ratner's Brooklyn 'gimmees' in the process, which means you'd catch it from both sides.

Arafat Rubberstamps New Cabinet

Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat called for an end to three years of violence, saying Wednesday that Israel had a right live in peace, and his prime minister urged an immediate and comprehensive cease-fire.

What language was used?

Cox & Forkum: Reaper
These guys should be on everybody's 'regular check' list.

Boat won't float - Mike
Hey, Vito, you schmuck! You wanna talk about boats? Go concentrate on fixing the mess your old man made out of the SI Ferry!

New York Daily News - Editorials
I think this is a first: I agree with all three of the Daily News Editorials! But the bit about smoking in the third one is a cheap shot. But hey, considering the reaction I usually have to these things, I'll let it slide.

"He'll Do It Again"
These prosecutors were assholes. Durst has a mile-long record of First Class Psychotic on his résumé. They were so sure they could get him strapped onto a gurney for the hot shot that they didn't offer the jury anything else to lock this lunatic away with.

NY Times Gets Slapped for Editorial
Anybody Fisking the NY Times is OK by me.
(via Blender Boy)

'Just say no' to gun-wielding cops in school
I wasn't going to bother with this whole insane episode of "America Goes Whacko" since everyone has dove on this already. (Just google "Goose Creek" and watch the hits rain down). But Parker's piece at least had a bit of humor. Most everything else I've seen published about this is calling for heads to roll, starting with Principal Asshole.

NPR's Kroc-pot bubbles over
I hope this infusion of dead cow cash finally weans NPR from the public teat. Their local outlets here in NYC still claim to be "public" radio stations, but as I noted back here (scroll down), they're nothing of the sort. Hell, they have both an AM and FM outlets; how freakin' poor is that?
The part I love is that NPR comes right out and admits that the individual radio stations can forget seeing any of this largesse hitting their bottom lines. "Keep up the pledge weeks, you dumb saps!"
Come to think of it, whoever the local NPR broadcaster in Mrs. Kroc's neighborhood was should take them to court, since they were NPR's pipeline into her heart.

Antidotes for Jessica Simpson syndrome
An interesting point: Why are a lot of the female conservative pundits walking talking brainiac babes with wit, while their liberal counterparts are churlish shrieking shrews?

The Conspiracy to Keep You Poor and Stupid
Luskin is getting funnier, and meaner, in his ongoing assault against his nemesis, the NY Times Paul Krugman. He's also driving Krugman full tilt nutzo.

Man, This Is Gonna Get Us In Trouble.... ;)
LMFAO!!!

Turn these bastards over, or else...
It's gonna rain daisy cutters for a week, asshats.

Johnnie-on-the-spot: Cochran takes ferry victim's case
Ream their damn asses, Cochran.

/must go wash hands now

'Ballot busters' keep Matsui from Rookie honors
Oh, here's a surprise. A Twins beat writer and a Red Sox beat writer left Matsui off their ballots because "he didn't deserve it...he's not really a rookie..."
Yes, asshats, he was a rookie. Just as much as Suzuki was, just as much as Noma was....
Sore losing farkers, tis all you yahoos are.

More News from the Cesspool
Somewhere previously in here I talked about what a mess the SI Ferry was. This is another example. If you are blowing out overtime money on such a scale, and the "rules" for hiring more bodies are so prohibitive, YOU CHANGE THE FREAKING RULES!

Ah, but the rules--'licensing requirements'--are union crafted blockades against the membership losing that OT. Which tells you everything you need to know about why nobody working at the SI Ferry is willing to talk. They believe if they all go omerta this'll all blow over with just a couple of the crashed ship's crew taking the fall.

The Last Disenfranchised Class
This is why the Left is doomed in a post 9-11 America. While the idea of restoring voting rights to people once they did their time is worthy of debate, who does she use as her lead lambs?
==A dumb broad who got herself into such a jam that she had to resort to dealing coke (if Daddy was able to leave her a produce business, couldn't he have wired her the cash for a Greyhound ticket home before he kicked off?).
==A slimeball who knifed to death a sanitation worker.

The first one shouldn't be allowed to vote anymore because she proved herself too stupid; the second killed a man over what more than likely was nothing but a dumbass argument.

Screw them both. I'm all for re-instituting the right to vote for people convicted of non-violent crimes, but the examples she used committed violent crimes. Yes, in my eyes dealing coke is a violent crime. If you don't believe it, go to Columbia and talk to the families of cops and judges who have been slaughtered trying to prosecute the cartels. Hell, go talk to the families of all the dead gangbangers blown away over control of the drug trade on their home turf. They ain't busting caps on each other's asses over weed, that's for sure. It's over the high octane.

And she goes on to posit that all those ex-cons are Democrats-in-waiting that could sway elections across the country.
Yeah, that's the ticket: "Vote Democrat! Just like the Jailbirds do!"
The GOP and NRA would love that one, sweetie. Gun sales to 'Whitey' would treble within days of your idea becoming law.

Don't Quit as We Did in Vietnam
An excellent piece that she be re-run in every college campus newspaper in the country, and especially in all those newsletters published by faculty organizations. Here's one of their own 'fessing up to the absolutely asinine knee-jerk reaction that the current "anti-war" crowd displays. It has consequences, chiefly a whole truckload of people die when we leave them behind.

It's one of the reasons that the Democratic party's nine yahoos are all doomed. They bay to the sky about an "exit strategy" as if that is something that should be on the books before the first bullet is let loose. Well, bozos, what was bubba's exit strategy for Bosnia?
Oh, right. There was none. We're still there.

Jessica's Hustled
C'mon. You knew this kind of thing was on the horizon. It's like the Paris Hilton porno tape. It was just a matter of "when."

SteynOnCanada
Hee. Hee. Hee. (various "sniggling and snorting" now going on.)

something's gone loopy, but I'm too stupid and cheap to deal with Movable Type right now, so you gotta hit the archives for recent stuff that ISN'T today.

A Western alliance no more?
Steyn, whose blog and Fisker's Brigade (collated over at Misha's) are leading the VRWC's assualt on all that is Idiotarian, never fails to amuse me, because he's always dead-on, leading his opponents to gnash their teeth and hurl invective.

Newsday.com: 300,000 Iraqis May Be in Mass Graves
Okay. No matter how much you hate Bush, even if this is a bloated number, there are 10 grand dead bodies.
FUCK YOU

News From The Associated Press
They threw the game. Greece wouldn't let us bring in Marines for security.

New York Daily News - Yankees - Mike Lupica: Joe's lessons prepare him for O's
You almost wrote a perfect piece. But then you tossed.
Look. Real Deal. Maz earned his new gig. Stop trying to talk your way out of being all wrong. Willie Randolph will neve be a manager.

Lupica: Joe's lessons prepare him for O's
GO MAZ, GO!
But remember what Jeet said: "First time you guys throw at me, I'm heading straight for the dugout."

Yahoo! News - Prince Charles Denies Alleged Incident
Have. Spent. Too. Much. Time. LMAO.
(wipes coffee off screen)

Charles is queer? Who'd a thunk?

Boston.com / Pedro puts in on Little
1918, MOFO. The Babe has beat your ass.

Rosie: I Don't Have A Clue
When will she get it? She is doomed, no matter what the judge says. He rules for her: Appeal City. He rules for 'them': She said she wouldn't fight it.
This broad is so sucked into her ego that reality is just a concept.

New York Post Online Edition: news
For any Richmond County residents:
We know where these fuck-ups live. Let's go make the Frenchies talk.

Peyser: I wanna keep my 'in'
You gutless bastard. On a simple level, you call her "A fabulousy wealthy celeb with a feel for the masses."

You never address the total con she ran on "the masses." If she played to the form she used to become "a wealthy celeb" this lawsuit never happens.
She outright kicked those people in the head once she had her "FU" money.
You mostly suck, Peyser. But I didn't know you would bend over.

Rich Tucker: Journalism 101
I don't know which to hit: Reina or Tucker? Well, that's not fair. Tucker is a little asswipe. He got dibs.

Internet Tax Ban Stops Dead in Senate (TechNews.com)
This has gotta be passed. And screw the language crap: if you use dial-up, DSl or cable, you are already being taxed. Just look at your bill. read the fine print, the stuff concerning "additional fees" and such.

If this goes through it'll seriously screw everything up. How do they intend to quantify it? I'm running off a cable modem. It's on all the time, but I'm not accessing it all the time. And what if two of my machines are online at the same time? Do I get double-hit? And if I'm a 56K dial-up customer, I'm paying less than the DSL and cable guys, right? Why does the cheap bastard get taxed less than me? Because he's accessing the Net at a slower speed? It is still ACCESS.

Former POW Jessica Lynch raped while held captive in Iraq, new biography reveals
I dunno about this. Drudge has a piece quoting the Iraqi doctor who worked on her denying he saw any signs of this.
And, the last sentence automatically sets off the BS Detector in my head. So I want to see these medical records.

Blacks say Bush played race card with court pick
And this is bad...how? The Dems have played it for years. Hell, most of the Dem Presidential candidates whipped the card out when Dean made his "pick-up truck/Confederate Flag" pronouncement. They made it out to mean he was courting 'racist white trash' Southerners. The only one who didn't take that tact was, ahem the only cracker the bunch.

Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | Brussels gives US notice of $1bn trade war
Oh, screw you, you chocolate covered cheese eating gutless twirps. Go ahead, pull the trigger. PULL THE DAMN TRIGGER! We'll bury your currency in a couple of weeks, tops. We'll hammer your economic asses into the ground. Your economies are on freaking life support. A goodly portion of the US population considers you obstinate surrender monkeys as big a problem as anything going on in Iraq or Afganistan.

If you think the backlash against France was something, then you watch what the largest consumer market on the planet can do when it offers a collective "Fuck You" to your major member states. "Freedom Fries" and that kind of stuff was nothing compared to the economic hurt we can put on you.

TheChamplainChannel.com - WNNE - Supreme Court: Gay Sex Not Adultery
Can't wait to see what--if anything--Sully's gonna have to say about this. Myself, I think they blew it (pun very intended). You have sexual relations outside of marriage, you committed adultery. Guy, girl, goat, whatever. You broke your fidelity, period.

ajc.com | Mike Luckovich Cartoons
What a little asshat.

OxBlog
Read the speech. Hell, read these blokes every chance you get.
(And their method of categorizing their links is wonderfully coherent and inclusive.)

PoliticaObscura
A cool politics blog.

Welcome to Bloomieburg!
Oh, for the love of.... Thank God for the two watering holes in my neighborhood. Owner-operated, and anyone besides those lovely ladies is a nephew, niece, cousin, etc. (Having a buch of cops as your clientele doesn't hurt, either.) So the Smoke Nazis get their asses chased right the fuck out.

But a video store? What the hell was a Smoke Nazi even doing in there?

An Earful for Bloomberg
Hey, Herbert? Here's an earful for you: You work for the NY Freakin' Times, whose only relationship with the City of New York--outside of Manhattan-- is the name on the paper's masthead. You work for the newspaper who rooted for (and own a chunk of) the Red Sox.

You work for the company that wants the city to give their real estate partner a hunk of the Liberty Bonds meant for rebuilding Downtown to finance your new home on FUCKING TIMES SQUARE! You work for the company that, to build said building, convinced the city to chase a slew of property owners, businesses and residents off the land; where they planned to build your spanking new home, promising that the finances wouldn't interfere with the construction.

Shut your pie-hole, Herbert. We may not like everything Mike is doing, but he at least has the balls to say and do what he thinks is right. No matter how many times you accuse him of it, he doesn't talk out of both sides of his mouth to the degree your bosses do.

John Harper: Money talks, especially if Mel walks
Harper's hitting on all cylinders, even though a lot of them were mentioned previously in this blog. That's how obvious it was.

George has never shown the guy the respect he deserves. He's tried to trade him a couple of times, and has fawned over Boomer, who Pettite probably considers a Neanderthal slob. All Pettite has done is win since he arrived, and he's never embarrassed the team. And it's not like there are a slew of lefties of his caliber out there to be had.

Testimony of Dr. David R. Criswell: Senate Hearing on "Lunar Exploration"
This is pretty cool.

Red Sox team doctor arrested for drunken driving
can you blame him?

Ethics problems in New Jersey
Hey, Shit for Brains. You named a hockey rink for a Governor who was three years out of office, and not even dead.
Jersey couldn't spell 'ethics' if you spotted them the 'e', 'c' and 't'.

Rosie Redux
Watch the fat bitch melt her own ass into the ground.

ESPN.com - MLB - Report: Mattingly to be Yankees' hitting coach
SOMEBODY OWES ME MONEY!
this too.

The New Republic Online: Rooney's Tune
Sully Fisking the Angry Old Coot. This is why I pay for broadband!

Who Reads This?
Losers. Just. Fucking. Losers
We're checking out now.

Watch Them All Implode
this is too funny, because at least Dean admits he's screwed without a Southern base, but the jag-offs slamming him are writing their names right off the list of candidates that have a chance in Hell on the "Bubba' vote.

ROSIE O'DONNELL'S BATTLES WITH EDITORS DETAILED
Wow. Didn't see that [Rosie is a psycho bitch] coming. I mean, if you knew her from her talk show, sure, you got totally faked out.

But if you just once saw her stand-up act, you had to know she was Krakatowa (sp?) looking for a reason to go 'BOOM!' When ABC threw all that money at her, the governor was stripped from the engine. After saving the Tony Awards, and Broadway, the pedal went straight to the metal.

She had her pile of "Fuck You" cash. There was no logical conclusion other than she was gonna try and be the sapphic Jann Wenner and build a media empire. I mean, jeez, Boy George on Broadway? What?

The funniest bit, to me, was everybody getting all "Shocked, SHOCKED!" when she declared herself "uber-bitch dyke."

I can't believe I am writing this sentence:
Frank Rich nails it pretty square on the head.

Yankees - Bronx coaching tale

Dowd=First (deservedly) sacrificial lamb.

Popeye's gonna be missed, but...jeez, him and Piniella is a bench I'd keep a camera on for the potential fireworks those two timebombs represent every time lineup cards are presented.

Maz is probably, but not a lock, off for greener pastures.

Willie ain't going anywhere unless he's forced out.

Stott's the key. Mel's just as fed up with Boss as anybody, but I think he's got more Uncle Joe loyalty than Zim did, and he has to know if he bails out there is little chance the Yanks re-sign Pettite.

Dent should be left at Columbus, and Girardi be shown to a bus.

Luis Sojo should get the bench job. Hell, they don't listen, he'll grab a stick and out-hit their ass.

Donnie should be brought back into the fold as hitting coach. None of these overpaid, pampered assholes has the bonafides to argue with him and expect their butts to survive what the NY beat writers will do to them. Mattingly is the pulse that built the Team that imploded in front of everyone's eyes during the World Series. He is a hitter for the generation. He blew away Boggs...he blew away everybody.

He might not have gotten a player's ring, but that team never gets to where it got without Mattingly's heart. He was Hard Core Yankee Baseball. He was Boss Proof.

Thurman woulda gone all Pudge on his chin. (no further up the face! We are Yankees!)

Plus, a la Uncle Joe, Steinbrenner couldn't dare fuck with Donnie. Which might preclude him from being considered.

George Lakoff tells how conservatives use language to dominate politics
I'm shocked, SHOCKED! Conservatives, those swarthy bastards!, used plain old English to form their position and present it to the public.
(from Misha, who seems to have had a hoot on this one)

Newsday.com - High School QB Says Record Pass Tainted
HERO OF THE MONTH AWARD!
This kid is a prince. Any college team that gets him on their squad will be more than better.

Guardian Unlimited | Columnists | Julie Burchill: Mind the gap
Holy Shit! Jools is pissed!

COURTTV.COM - TRIALS - Robert Blake Wife Murder Trial
"BANG' 'BANG"
how the fuck did he miss?

STONE DUDE
he is way-bitch pissed!

YOU FUCKERS DON'T GET IT
he's a freaking batboy! I know ten guys with a better swing that are hanging in the A ball leagues.

Boston.com Baseball / Red Sox / Nice try, but they can't give him away
(excuse me why i laugh my ass off)

HOO FUCKING RAH!
sorry.... hadda do it. Fuck the Mets.

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish
Read the mail.

Girls pummel man who exposed himself
GRRRLL POWER!

Bury Rosie
She used to be my idol. Screw the gay shit. I grew up in NYC, we don't care queer here.
She is an absoute bitch. She deserves to get hammered. Oh, and that Broadway Show?

Who want to watch Brit fagboys kill themselves?

Rosie O'Donnell is a Fucked Up Bitch
She is gonna be so hammered after this shit plays out that she can only play to the Chelsea/Castro contingent.
"Queen of Nice": shoulda thought twice.
Gone, fatgirl. You are farking GONE.

DUDE OF THE FREAKING YEAR!!!
I mean...c'mon!

LILEKS (James) The Bleat
The boy knows his dog.
Jasper! Almighty 'Lay Down in front of the Birthed' King Kahoon.

Jacob Sullum: Little kids watch TV; alert the media!
Why the hell are ANY kids under the age of 2 watching TV?
-->(looks in family closet, finds sister guilty)
'cartoons aren't TV'
WHAAA???

Joely Agrees
Ramirez is toxic. Leave him where he is. Let him poison those morons.

Popeye to join Sweet Lou
So cool. So very cool. Those two loons running a dugout/clubhouse means nobody gets away with any attitude crap without their faces getting flayed.

Yanks have no use for a Manny apart
You poor, dumb bastards. You can't even give this jag-off away after Duquette gave him that insane salary. With the money gun the Yanks are already looking at, there is no way he comes to the Bronx unless Boston eats half the cash. Boss learned his lesson with Mondesi. He is not gonna bring another headcase into the most high tension clubhouse in all of sports.

War: What are Dems Good for? Absolutely nothing
I'm no huge fan of this guy, mostly because I think his Mommy is an absolute bitch on wheels. But he has shown he's not Mamma's Parrot, and he's a pretty decent pundit.

A Judge's Life: The Final Reckoning by Nat Hentoff
Hentoff is the premier reporter when it comes to the First Amendment, and a personal favorite. He never lets ideology cloud his judgements. that he is defending Pickering from "reckless, unfair" attacks from People Who Should Know Better says everything that needs to be said.

TCS: Tech Central Station - Chris Muir's Day By Day
The best strip since Bloome County shut down.

Cornfield Commentary
giggle, giggle...Kruggie in da middle....

Quaint Praise (washingtonpost.com)
Any non-corpse-living-on-the-Beltway-blood gives ashit about Iowa and/or New Hampshire.

NO VOTES THERE!!!

Be real, you old coot. no one gives a shit what they think.
Fuck them and fix the ski runs.

PressThink: The Siegal Report, a Triumph at the Times, Becomes the Case of the Missing Link
DING DING DING!!!

Putin? Load the Cannons
I do not like this guy, Putin, but the other choices scare me.

Roger L. Simon: From the Sports Pages of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer
12 times outta 10, I do not agree with him. Here, I do.

'We Didn't Twist the News'
Why can't those fires go storming north? What is it? God beats on the East Coast for blood, but the West Coast...for wood?

Merde in France
NOW can we BEAT THEIR ASS?

Asshole PunchUp Tonight
My friend's daddy owns Gleason's, so I am gonna hope that at some point the ref says, "Fuck this. Whoever makes it outta the ring with the other guy down is the winner."
THEN it'll be a betting bonanza!

Salon.com | Camille speaks!
And she's full of the academic shit she once decried.

Dean: "I'm a MetroSexual"
Good! Go to Christopher Street or the Castro and become a local crank, but get off the national stage, loser! Dukakis laughs at your ass.

Get Scared NOW! Ask me how!
HomeStar rules! And StrongBad is da baddest.

Occam's Toothbrush: Freedom
I agree with Puppy Blender

They're 'Movie Critics', right?
So go watch the freakin' flick with the proles to whom your bullshit is doled!

OK, I lied...
This was too funny to pass up.

Last Baseball Blog of the Day
Klapper is a good Yankee beat writer. As per the Free Agent list accompanying the article:

CLEMENS: Retired. No way, unless the Olympics
FLAHERTY: Solid backup; trade fodder. Safe until Spring
HEREDIA: IF offer tendered, he'll take it
NELSON: His mouth means he's in Heredia's shoes
OSUNA: Gone
PETTITE: Clemens: "Rewrite Yankee Record Book."
SIERRA: Can't afford to let him go
WELLS: Bye, bye, Boomer
WHITE: Should be safe, but this is the Bronx....

ESPN.com - MLB - McLain ready to move on after prison term
Join Pete Rose on the "Put Me in Cooperstown" road show.

ESPN.com - MLB - Colon rejects ChiSox deal
He purportedly says he doesn't want to play in New York. That may be true. But when George throws Zoo money on the table, we'll find out the truth about Colon's preferences.

And believe me, George is gonna go after this guy, big time. Expect every Spanish speaking member of the team to be calling Bartolo in the next few weeks.

I mean, Jon Lieber???

BostonHerald.com - Red Sox: Brass can't let the fans rule roost
The next few weeks are gonna be fun, what with all the bloodletting and finger-pointing that's gonna be going on in Da Bronx and Beantown.

THE FUNNY MONEY: It's not that fans are dumb, but by definition, they're emotionally disturbed. Rooting for a sports team is a voluntarily induced mental illness, like taking mescaline but without seeing the colors.

FUNNY MONEY II: Memo to the fans: You got your wish. Grady's gone. Your new skipper will manage the Sox according to a 150-page order written by Epstein and Bill James. He'll be a cipher. If he's a passive cipher, guys like Pedro and Manny will run roughshod over him. If he's an abrasive cipher like Bobby Valentine, there'll be knife fights in the clubhouse by Mother's Day. Either way, good luck.

LeatherPenguin votes Bobby V. That would be more entertaining than anything that goes down in the Bronx next season.

Get Fuzzy
Gratuitous Red Sox bashing. (via Bambino's Curse)

Lawyer asks city: Admit ferry blame
Admit nothing. Some of these suits are questionable (see "Scumbags", below) and admitting to anything just further opens the floodgates.

Ticketed - for playing dominoes!
I know Bloomberg wants the cops to be revenue generating machines, but fer chrissakes, geezers playing dominoes? And, according to the geezers, they blew off an undercover who tried to entrap them!

Yo, boys and girls in blue? Buy a freakin' clue!

Soriano shaken up by early trade talk
GOOD! Maybe if you realized you weren't the second coming of DiMag you would have stopped chasing that outside-in-the-dirt shit that got you in the WS record book.
These are the Boss George Yankees.
Pretty much ANYbody can get their ass hung out to dry.
You din't pull the 40-40. So fuck you, trade bait.

Bombers' bigwigs go with Joe
Uncle Joe has to put the screws to the Tampa Mafia, make them back the fuck down, and then keep twisting.

Joe Torre ain't Billy Martin. Boss fucks with Uncle Joe, Rudy Julie will turn on him. He'll get invitations to move to Jersey. And he'll learn the US Supreme Court doesn't have the balls to stop NYC from stripping the Yankee trademark under the rules of "eminent domain" and telling him to go back to Cleveland or Tampa and get the fuck outta town before we cut the Creatures loose..

P. Diddy Clothing Line Accused Of Using Honduran Sweatshop Labor
SO? The real story is he's got 'em stashed in a warehouse in Bed-Stuy.

Ronald Reagan revisionism
This is just the lowest anyone can go.

CBS should be crushed; every company that advertises on the network should be bombarded with protests:
"you advertise on this network--nevermind this 'biopic'--and we'll put you out of business.

It's the only way to force CBS to pull the plug on this piece of shit.

Fired? It's 'Tree & Rope' Time
Whaddya expect? My last name is LYNCH.

Glenn Reynolds: Instant punditry on culture, politics, and the law
Interesting take. Me? More interested in seeing if this Haloscan comment thing I just installed actually works.

Family sick of living on Butt Hole Road
So that's where the monty Python guys are working now...the Road Naming Committee!

Traumatize This!(699925)
Scumbag noted in listing below gets the FARK treatment (link goes to comment thingie...pile on!)

ESPN.com - Lockers empty and turmoil brews in Yankeeland
It's gonna be an interesting winter. Boss George must throw a ton of dough at Pettite's feet, and it might not be enough to keep Andy in the fold. Clemens and (likely) Stottlemyre will be gone; they were his best friends on the team. Boomer is toast. For his mental health alone, Weaver's gotta go. And the Tampa Mafia traded away the best pitching prospects during the season for nothing, really. So the rotation--the strength of the team--is dicey. Which means some free agent, like Bartolo Colon, is gonna get a fat present dropped on his doorstep.

Which means even less money to play with filling in the holes among the position players:
3B= Please. We'll love him on Old Timers Day, but Boone is finished.
2B= Send him to the outfield or send him outta town, but someone else has to cover this bag.
1B= Screwed. Giambi's left leg and contract means he ain't going nowhere. And he won't accept the everyday DH role. Which makes Nick Johnson major trade bait.
LF= Depends on Bernie. Matsui proved he could be moved to center
CF= Bernie needs to be shifted to the DH slot. Everybody knows they can run on him, and he doesn't get to the balls hit into the gaps anymore.
RF= Probably Georgie throws money at some potzer past his prime name who fails horribly. Fans petition Paulie to come out of retirement.

Downing Street 'mystified' by Bill Clinton claim
They're 'mystified' that Bubba's tossing bullshit so he can keep his profile in the public square? What rock you mooks been under?

The Scumbags Start Coming
200 million. Because she can't sleep? Get a bottle of Stoli!