Juan Cole shared a spotlight with Pastor Rick Warren over the weekend, at the annual Muslim Public Affairs Council in Long Beach. His post is well worth reading, especially so for those who would rather get poked in the eye with a sharp stick than listen to Warren deliver the inauguration invocation.
THE WHITE DOG HOUSE — The annual revelation that a little black scottie dog runs the White House was again met with shock and anger by too few normal human beings. “Barney,” aka “Bushmaster,” was again portrayed as the driving force behind the White House Christmas celebration by a cloying gaggle of the Bush family, gathered around the fireplace.
The disease is a variant in the family of tic disorders, and is sometimes referred to as Noggin’ Turrets…
Watermelon In Easter Hay is certainly one of Frank’s quintessential pieces. During our celebration of Zappadan it starts to play automatically on any Zappadan article that’s at the top of the page… The voice of The Central Scrrrrrrrrrrrutinizer can be unnerving to some…
• Don’t kid yourself. Everybody in this room is wearing a uniform. ••••••—Frank Zappa • It was January of 1968. I had been on the boat only three days or so when this boot from Louisiana comes on board. I’m mostly listening to The Doors and The Byrds. He turns me on to Cream, and Frank Zappa and the Mothers …
The new “Vader” bullet-proof outfit keeps rogue face-shooters like Dick Cheney (left) shooting at birds; not you. (Click it.) PUKWANA SD — This time of year a lot of white men are out in the fields shooting each other— accidentally— and occasionally on purpose. John Derrick “Lucky” Shawtt, a Colorado outfitter who has made a small fortune selling bullet-proof fashion …
