WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF ZOGG?
Too, too funny. It starts out slow - read the whole thing.

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EXCUSE ME, MISS, DO YOU HAVE A PRESCRIPTION FOR THAT VIBRATOR?
One of my snowbound friends sent me this, saying, “I’m glad I don’t live in Alabama”:
It makes me wonder what I would do if I lived in Alabama, one of the few remaining states whose obscenity law makes it illegal to “produce, distribute or otherwise [...]

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LIVING GODS VS. BLOODSUCKERS
The Association of Trial Lawyers of America continue to ask in vain for a meeting with the head of the AMA on reducing medical fraud and malpractice:
I hope you choose to recognize the growing body of research showing that the so-called “tort reform” your organization has advocated in the past will not [...]

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TRUSTWORTHY
Not only did famous wingnut vampire and hack Novakula lie about Howard Dean on the Capital Gang this weekend, he then repeated the same lie to Judy “Nothing Too Good for My Republicans” Woodruff this afternoon on Inside Politics as an example of how Dean can’t be counted on to “stick to the party line”:
Syndicated [...]

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THE CORONATION OF ST. GEORGE

[Used by permission of the artist Lynn Randolph.]

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YET ANOTHER COMMERCIAL BREAK
Money don’t get everything, it’s trueBut what it does get, I can useSo give me money (that’s what I want).
(Big sigh…) So I’m still $170 short. I even threatened to kill a kitten, and that didn’t work.
Would someone - not one of the people who have already been so generous - please [...]

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SNOW DAY LUNCH MENU
Salad with Raspberry Walnut Viniagrette DressingTrader Joe’s Cheddar & Broccoli QuicheHot Tea
I wonder if the snow-food fixation has a biological component. You know, your brain screaming, “Stock up now because you don’t know when you’ll get outside again.”

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THOU SHALT NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS
I know you’re as shocked as I am:
WASHINGTON - Today Reps. Henry A. Waxman, Rep. Charles B. Rangel, and Rep. Sander M. Levin, along with Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer, and Reps. Obey, Miller, and DeLauro, released a new report that shows how the Social Security Administration [...]

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WHATSOEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST OF MY BROTHERS
Ever notice how the Republics pick and choose from the Bible? They memorize every single line having to do with judgment, vengeance and retribution, but they conveniently forget everything to do with charity, forgiveness and compassion:
Most states would not be able to absorb the added burdens and [...]

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SNOW DAY
Well, it finally started, and man, is it heavy! The TV weather parrots are saying 2″ per hour.

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Via All Spin Zone, this outstanding testament to the Christian love that underpins Republican family values:
The issue here isn’t that Fred Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are easily the scummiest and most venal group in America. I’m curious more about what responsibility the Republican Party has in condemning this sick behavior. They certainly were [...]

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IT’S NOT JUST THE SQUIRRELS
Ah hah! :
ONCE they were a byword for mindless docility. But cows have a complex mental life in which they bear grudges, nurture friendships and become excited by intellectual challenges, researchers have found.
Cows are capable of strong emotions such as pain, fear and even anxiety about the future. But if farmers [...]

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SUCH A DEAL
I mean, you wouldn’t expect them to do anything about that shortened health expectancy, would you?
WASHINGTON — The White House and its allies who back overhauling Social Security are launching a highly targeted campaign to convince blacks that President Bush’s plan to create private investment accounts would have special benefits for them.
The most [...]

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This is pretty funny. Santorum is offering to allow the Democrats to be blamed for a tax hike for something we’re winning on, anyway:
WASHINGTON - Sen. Rick Santorum, the conservative from Pennsylvania who ranks third in the Senate Republican leadership, said Sunday that he was willing to discuss increasing the Social Security tax rate as [...]

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RACE RELATIONS
I was talking to my best friend - you know, the colored one. I was filling her in on the most recent episodes of “Judge Hatchett” and “Divorce Court.”
I was telling how how Judge Mabelean snapped out on the plaintiff in Friday’s “Divorce Court.”
“Now, dig this,” I said, setting the scene. “It’s yet another [...]

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FREEDOM IN ACTION
See how well that magical election worked?
BAGHDAD, Iraq, Feb. 28 - A suicide car bomber drove into a line of about 400 volunteers for the Iraqi National Guard and police force today in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing at least 122 people and wounding at least 170, an official at the Interior Ministry [...]

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ANOTHER PERSPECTIVE
I thought this was fascinating:
Sure, Dr. Farrell accepts that women, as a group, are paid less than men. But the way he sees it, using pay statistics to prove sex discrimination is akin to using the horizon to prove that the world is flat.
Women, he believes, methodically engineer their own paltry pay. They [...]

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MASSAGING THE MESSAGE
Knight Ridder gets it. This isn’t just “a story about sex,” no matter what some people would prefer we believe:
Every president has sought to manipulate the media. But historians say that Bush, unhappy with what he calls “the filter,” is courting controversy in his quest for innovative formats. Several conservative commentators have been [...]

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LEGACY
I hope these warmongers are proud of what they’ve done:
The nation’s system of veterans’ health care is already seeing the first of those men and women, saved by modern battlefield medicine but in need of long-term rehabilitation. While their numbers are not nearly as large as the injured from Vietnam or World War II, the [...]

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ONLY IN AMERICA
Shorter Dick Armey:
When you’re a Republican, you can just ramble and make shit up, and they print it anyway. What a great country!

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HYPOCRISY
Bob Herbert:
Mr. Arar’s is the case we know about. How many other individuals have disappeared at the hands of the Bush administration? How many have been sent, like the victims of a lynch mob, to overseas torture centers? How many people are being held in the C.I.A.’s highly secret offshore prisons? Who are they and [...]

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GETTING SOCIAL
How many of you live in the Philadelphia area? Would y’all be up for getting together in a non-smoking venue?

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BUSHCO: HALF-HEARTEDLY PROTECTING CERTAIN SPORADIC AREAS OF OUR COUNTRY
As time goes by, you know what I think lends weight to the 9/11 tin-hat theories? The nagging thought that, if BushCo really believes terrorists are a continuing threat to our country, why do they do such a piss-poor job?
The Transportation Security Administration has disbanded its Office [...]

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HEALING THE SICK
I tried to post this earlier today, but Blogger ate it and to tell you the truth, it’s so horrifying, it’s the kind of thing you want to forget:
Brian Tetrault was 44 when he was led into a dim county jail cell in upstate New York in 2001, charged with taking some skis [...]

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MORE BIGASS SNOW
I spent most of today at the office, because there’s going to be yet another bigass snow tomorrow:
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN MOUNT HOLLY, NEW JERSEY HAS ISSUED A WINTER STORM WARNING FOR MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT FOR EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA, AND NORTHERN AND CENTRAL NEW JERSEY.
SNOW WILL BEGIN FROM SOUTH TO NORTH IN [...]

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A BREATH OF FRESH AIR
Our buddy John over at Crooks & Liars has a two-year-old video of Tubby Tim Russert doing his best to shame Hunter Thompson about his opposition to the Iraq war. If it wasn’t so infuriating, it would be funny. Tubby Tim is simply shocked that anyone would dare oppose Fearless Leader [...]

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DON’T WORRY, BE HAPPY
I’m off in the real world today, but in the meantime, you can always watch the Numa Numa dance here.

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MILESTONE
I just got an email reminding me the Freeway Blogger will observe the death of the 1,500th soldier in Iraq, which is expected to happen sometime next week.
On a lighter note (and can’t we all use one of those), here’s the Freeway Blogger calling Rick Santorum’s office after the senator’s infamous “man on dog” remarks:
The [...]

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MARATHON MAN
Howard gives them hell in Kansas:
And Dean told the Hiebert fund-raiser that gay marriage was a Republican diversion from discussions of ballooning deficits and lost American jobs. That presents an opportunity to attract moderate Republicans, he said.
“Moderate Republicans can’t stand these people (conservatives), because they’re intolerant. They don’t think tolerance is a virtue,” Dean [...]

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ABC’S OF CENSORSHIP
From Drudge:
A growing chill is in the air over Hollywood Saturday night after ABC executives forced Robin Williams to drop a comic song from the Oscars show!
Williams, the presenter of the Academy Award for best animated feature, decided last week that his one minute on stage would be a prime time to [...]

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