In a fit of post-scalpum depression, Rick Moran

writes (re: the Amanda Marcotte affair): "Certainly our

motives lacked nobility. I will be the last to argue that

anything more than 'scalp hunting' animated this effort.

.... Is this all we are? Is this what we have become?"

Are there any answers to these rhetorical questions?

A guy named Rick is the proprietor of Rightwing Nuthouse.

What a Moran!

"I do believe that the president of Venezuela is really destroying his

own country economically and politically. Why else would his

countrymen have overwhelmingly re-elected him two months ago?"

Raking muck is dirty work, but somebody has to do it.

NASA spokesperson Shana Dale seemed to bite her

tongue after she was forced to admit astronauts aren't

superhuman beings from outer space.

Princess Summerfallwinterspring

Neolithic Ancestors of George Bush and Joe Lieberman

Uncovered by Italian Archaeologists

Why is the world ruled by old men with

gray beards? Why is the world ruled by

old men who wear hats to hide their

bald heads? Why is the world ruled by

old men who wear glasses to disguise their

myopia? Why is the world ruled by old

men who have ears filled with hearing aids?

Why is the world ruled by old men who

start wars for young men to die in?

Why is the world ruled by old men?

Aleksandra Lazarevic could see the sphere of human

happiness on the other side of the glassy wall. But,

like Tantalus, she couldn't quite put her hand on it.

If you ask a goalkeeper, like Alejandro Cichero, what his greatest

fear is, he would probably tell you it's being netted like a salmon.

"As I understand it," says Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the

Federal Reserve Board, "'blog amnesty' means you link

only to blogs you read regularly. Of necessity, this means

you would link to a relatively small number of blogs. Were this

to become the rule in the blogosphere, the link structure

Google and Technorati use to search for--and rank--blogs

would break down. In the near term, this means the only blog

you will read regularly will be your own, because it will be

the only one you can find. In the long term, this would mean

both good news and bad news for the economy."

The ladybug realized, but too late, she shouldn't have

accepted her rival's dare to land on the frozen rose.

"You might be tempted, gentlemen, to describe the

decor of this room as 'busy'. But I had the last guest

who said that flayed alive."

Doug Feith, former Deputy Undersecretary for Defense

Policy and director of the Pentagon Office of Special

Plans, now teaches at the Georgetown University

Walsh School of Foreign Service. He is waiting to

see if he will put the long-awaited Pentagon Inspector

General's report on the Office of Special Plans on his

reading list for his popular course in techniques

of faking intelligence.

"Who in his right mind, Mr. Bremer, would send 363

tons of cash, packed in wooden boxes, into a war zone?"

"Well, Congressman, I had to do that because The

Container Store had run out of large Translucent

Tote Boxes."

Senator Arlen Specter has learned a member of his

staff inserted a controversial provision into the USA

Patriot Act without his knowledge. "I did not slip it

in and I do not slip things in. I let my staff do that."

John Warner seemed pleased when told he would go

down in history as the first Senator to filibuster his

own resolution. He is also remembered as the first

Senator to marry Elizabeth Taylor.

Before Astronaut Lisa Nowak Went Into Orbit

After

David Broder strongly denies he lies for the money.

He says he lies because he enjoys it, and the

money is just icing on the cake.

Tower of Babel Collapses; Congressman Tom Tancredo

Thought to Be Buried in Multicultural Rubble