Here’s Dave Barry with what is probably his best column ever: “The Difference Between Men and Women.”

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Well, I rise up every morning at a quarter to eight
Some woman who’s my wife tells me not to be late
I kiss the kids goodbye, I can’t remember their names
And week after week, it’s always the same
And it’s ho, boys, can’t you code it
And program it right
Nothing ever happens in the life of mine
I’m hauling […]

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David Corn on the Plame investigation:
For anyone following the matter, it’s impossible not to guess about what’s going on and what Fitzgerald will do. His grand jury expires at the end of October. He could impanel a new one and keep investigating. But all indications suggest he’s close to done. One person who recently had […]

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More bad news via Somegirl:
QARMAT ALI, Iraq — The failure to rebuild key components of Iraq’s petroleum industry has impeded oil production and may have permanently damaged the largest of the country’s vast oil fields, American and Iraqi experts say.
The deficiencies have deprived Iraq of hundreds of millions of dollars in potential revenue needed […]

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I can’t link to him, but you can read him here.

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I told you before how I live in the suburban Hellmouth, where all sorts of odd and evil things happen.
Yesterday, a cop was killed and three other people shot when a drunk driver, brought to a local emergency room for a blood test, grabbed the cop’s gun. (Coincidentally, this is the hospital my doctor always […]

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Political Wire:
Promoting his new book in Michigan, Newt Gingrich (R) “discussed a possible run for president in 2008, saying health care and government modernization are the pillars of his program,” the AP reports.
Said the former Speaker: “If I’m potentially going to run, I have to get my message out, and if it works and five […]

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Look how this administration runs like a well-oiled machine:
WASHINGTON - Despite promises of a swift response to Katrina, the U.S. Small Business Administration didn’t deliver any loan checks to companies in the disaster zone during the first month after the hurricane, according to records obtained by the Associated Press.
The SBA handed out 950,000 ‘applications for […]

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Today, as of 7:28 a.m., my official birthday began. (My astrological birthday was yesterday, but whatever.)
This time last year, I was moving into this tiny little shoebox, deeply depressed and one step ahead of an eviction notice. I remember pushing through this state of chronic exhaustion and knowing I’d never be happy again.
Well, I am. […]

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Just go read TBogg, and be sure to click on the link to my buddy Watertiger at Dependable Renegade.

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This, in only the most peripheral way, is a birthday story. And if you are related to me, don’t read any further. (Ick factor.) But whatever.
Many, many years ago, an enthusiastic friend waxed poetic about Fisherman’s Friend lozenges and their legendary powers re: a certain act. I was, um, curious, but I wasn’t familiar with […]

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If that business happens to be Murder Inc.:
NASHVILLE, TENN. - Four guards at a privately run jail have been indicted on reckless homicide charges accusing them of beating a female inmate to death.
The indictment issued this week also charges the four guards with aggravated assault against Estelle Richardson, 34, who died in 2004. A medical […]

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Via Holden, yesterday’s episode of Flounder the Magical White House Fish:
Q Let me — these are obviously difficult days for Republicans. The top Republican —
MR. McCLELLAN: Not for Judge Roberts. (Laughter.)
Q Good point there. But the President’s political standing has eroded significantly; we’ve gone through the laundry list of other potential legal problems […]

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I guess this is as good a time as any to remind you there’s an eclipse in Libra this Monday - 3:33 a.m. EDT, I believe.
Anyway, eclipses do tend to shake things the fuck up. Virtually every time I’ve been laid off or had some other major trauma, it was in close proximity to an […]

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Judy Miller released from jail after making a deal to testify. Should be interesting.
Oh, and so much for her much-vaunted “principles.”

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Billmon on the Roberts nomination:
By that standard, at least, Roberts would practically have to show up for work in a white robe and a hood to make things worse. I’m not expecting that — stealth coating or no stealth coating. But I’d put even lower odds on Roberts undergoing any kind of Souter-like metamorphosis, much […]

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Imagine - child rape watched by American soldiers on the evening news. I preferred the blowjobs:
NEW YORK A federal judge ruled today that graphic pictures of detainee abuse at Iraq’s Abu Ghraib prison must be released over government claims that they could damage America’s image. Last year a Republican senator conceded that they contained scenes […]

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Little Ricky’s losing it:
WASHINGTON | President Bush’s falling approval ratings are casting a shadow over Republican U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum’s bid for a third term, a new Morning Call/Muhlenberg College poll found.
Among the 54 percent of Pennsylvania voters dissatisfied with Bush’s job performance, only 9 percent intend to support Santorum while 57 percent back his […]

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And half the Senate Democrats voted for him. Sheesh.

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You know, I keep saying that ADD is really a disease of capitalism. If you weren’t expected to perform 24/7 at peak efficiency, you wouldn’t need crap like this:
BOSTON (MarketWatch)-Eli Lilly said early Thursday that at the request of the Food and Drug Administration, it is adding a warning to the label of its attention-deficit […]

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Cool. Finally, a cheap way of doing this on the horizon:
TOKYO - The common electric socket will serve as your home’s connection to broadband with a new chip developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co. — doing away with all the Ethernet cables or the hassle of hooking up to a wireless network device.

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Good piece from Juan Cole:
The frankly pusillanimous tactic of declining to speak out on the war will ill serve the Democratic Party, which has managed to lose both houses of Congress, the presidency and the Supreme Court. The American public is not generally antiwar, it is simply impatient with any long-term, highly expensive governmental endeavor […]

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Billmon:
Ethics wars could intensify if Republicans uncork a new nuclear option — counter-charges hurled against leading Dems. Among the candidates under consideration for GOP attacks: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, Democratic Congressional Committee Chairman Rahm Emanuel (D-Ill.), Representative William Jefferson of Louisiana, and Senator Jon Corzine of New Jersey, his party’s current gubernatorial […]

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Salon on the great imploding Republican corruption machine:
Sept. 29, 2005 | At its height, the first great political machine of the 21st century worked like this: In Congress, Texas Rep. Tom DeLay controlled the votes like a modern-day Boss Tweed. He called himself “the Hammer.” His domain included a vast network of former aides and […]

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Will has an update on the rumored front-runner for the next SCOTUS nomination. If you haven’t read it yet, she’s the woman who (among other nefarious things) helped Bush cover up his National Guard record - or lack thereof.

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