a crank’s progress

If I ran the zoo, campaign ads would have a minimum length and maximum frequency and would be aired by the broadcasters as a condition of their license to use the public airwaves.

…By making them longer, I think it removes the cheap shot potential, and by making the broadcasters run a specific amount of campaign advertising as part of their license, we remove that barrier to entry for more candidates, ie someone besides lawyers and industralists.

Look how much fun these guys are having? Is it any wonder they look like they’re smiling?

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Statement of Principles | Council of Conservative Citizens
This is the GOP, circa 1955, but that’s preferable to what we have now. The racist/sexist/homophobic stuff irks me: people will hold with that crap, in public?
(tags: nationalism americanexceptionalism politics racism)

Pantry soups are named because they use staples you probably already have, but I use the term to encompass ways of cleaning out the pantry of odds and ends…. Add a couple of ripe tomatoes crushed or a 15oz can of your favorite canned tomatoes, with some dried basil/oregano/whatever you like and a 1/4 cup extra virgin olive oil.

This is the only one of their principles I can endorse without reservation, though there are some weasel words in there (who decides what’s a “truly endangered species”?).

…Do they really want to stand in judgment and answer questions about who polluted the streams and lakes, who blew up the mountains, who wiped out the fish, birds, and other animals for sport or by destroying their homes?

The 9 Most Badass Bible Verses
I would have read the book before if I had known it had gems like this.
(tags: humor religion history)

John Ashcroft: I’m Willing To Be Waterboarded
And Glenn “instapundit” Reynolds says he is too. I say, go for it, and televise it as well.
(tags: torture culture values Waterboarding)

Clean drawings based on naughty [...]

Curious factoid about my donations: I mentioned that 50 minutes is about average for me (the total above is a double, twice as many as most people give), since I had a new (to me) phlebotomist/technician/person-with-sharp-objects…. why a double, and I have to pass it off as something unusual in me, not in them if they’re not able to do that.

In. Southampton, NY. [From What MORE is it going to take?!