Shorter George Bush:
I’ll listen to the generals - except when they tell me something I don’t want to hear.

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Go help Shakespeare’s Sis. I have been in that desperate “Oh my God, what the fuck do I do now?” place so many times, and it’s not great. (Plus, I love her blog.)
Make her believe in Santa, won’t you?
Mr. Shakes was in a car accident this morning. Aside from a sore back, he’s fine, thank [...]

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Adam Sandler:

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You know, I don’t run these stories to rag on these people. Invariably, they have some pretty bad experiences of their own that lead to this sort of thing. It’s just to point out how often the people who are attacking the “moral failings” of others are really talking about themselves, and that’s a useful [...]

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That’s the name of the book I just finished (my friend Lynn sent it from my Amazon wish list for Christmas). It’s a fascinating look at the L.A. music scene back in the day, and one of the things I noticed is that the only person who comes out of it with her reputation and [...]

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“I have this problem,” I told my shrink. (This was 20 years ago.) “I read a lot.”
“Why is that a problem?” he asked, not unreasonably.
“well, it’s that I’m up reading until 2 or 3 in the morning, and then I have to get up and go to work the next day,” I said.
“So stop doing [...]

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I never could stand Oliver North.

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Matt Damon in Good Will Hunting explains why he didn’t join the NSA:

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Weird Al:

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I think I’m gonna like this guy:
WASHINGTON — Virginia Sen.-elect Jim Webb said President Bush is a “failed president” who should use his last two years in office to repair America’s image abroad by ending the Iraq war through intensive diplomacy.
In an interview Tuesday with the Daily Press, Virginia’s newly elected Democratic senator made clear [...]

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Jeff Foxworthy:

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Frank Luntz. Man’s got Kool-Aid poisoning…

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Last night’s DL Christmas party was not as much fun as it might otherwise have been. Why? Because of various gameplaying on the part of the mayor to stick it to the author of the bill (Mike Nutter, who’s running for mayor after Street leaves), the implementation of the no-smoking law has been delayed until [...]

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I’m watching Bubble Boy’s press conference, and as usual, it’s clear he’s got a transmitter in his ear telling him what to say. I mean, when someone keeps interjecting “Let me finish” when no one else in the room is even speaking, it’s hard to conclude otherwise.

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My December horoscope:
Stunning breakthroughs are rare enough events in your life. You tend to prefer putting one foot in front of the other to the flying karate kick. Looking back, you’ve done a lot of that this year, that is, the moving forward one step at a time, thankfully, without looking back. But the real [...]

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I love stories like this. People are so much more generous when they can attach a face to what they do and get to see the results:
For days before the three Central Bucks buses pull up, her school is abuzz, she said.
“Even the babies know who they are - they say, ‘Ooh, Central Bucks is [...]

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Okay, so we lied a little. What’s the big deal?
Securities regulators charged Morgan Stanley DW Inc. with failing to hand over millions of e-mail messages to investigators and plaintiffs by falsely saying that the documents had been lost in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on the World Trade Center, according to a complaint filed [...]

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I know I am:
Federal health officials yesterday scuttled the largest piece of the Bush administration’s two-year program to counter bioterrorism, canceling an $877.5 million contract with VaxGen to develop an anthrax vaccine after the company missed a deadline to begin human testing.
The decision, delivered in a one-page letter, ends a troubled effort by the small [...]

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And on a purely personal level, the lack of sustained winter cold (the kind that kills mold) means my allergies will be worse than ever. But don’t worry about that global warming thing, everything’s fine:
Preliminary data from the Met Office, Britain’s national weather service, and the University of East Anglia indicate that 2006 has been [...]

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I don’t think Little George even knows what cooperation means:
President Bush said yesterday that he intends to work with the new Democratic majority in Congress on a broad range of domestic issues, declaring that despite the impending power shift there are “some wonderful opportunities” to address concerns that have long festered without a political solution.
Signaling [...]

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I much prefer the old days, in which copyright expired after 10 years because the Founders thought it was important to enrich the public discourse. Silly, huh?
NEW YORK A new online tool has been developed by the California-based Attributor Corp. to help publishers and other content producers scan the internet for possible copyright violations, according [...]

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More good news from the SEIU:
Two of the largest mall owners in the country have formed a partnership with the Service Employees International Union. Simon Properties and Westfield Properties have joined with the union to help lift workers at their combined 373 malls into better paying jobs with decent benefits. The two companies have said [...]

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Joseph Galloway:
Sometime early in the new year, President Bush will go on national television to tell a disgruntled American public what he has decided should be done to salvage “victory” from the jaws of certain defeat in the war he started.
The word on the street, or in the Pentagon rings, is that he’ll choose to [...]

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Sluts, the lot of them:
(AP) More than nine out of 10 Americans, men and women alike, have had premarital sex, according to a new study. The high rates extend even to women born in the 1940s, challenging perceptions that people were more chaste in the past. “This is reality-check research,” said the study’s author, Lawrence [...]

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This should be interesting:
Vice President Dick Cheney will be called as a defense witness in the CIA leak case, an attorney for Cheney’s former chief of staff told a federal judge Tuesday.
“We’re calling the vice president,” attorney Ted Wells said in court. Wells represents defendant I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, who is charged with perjury [...]

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Billmon:
All along, I’ve had the sneaking suspicion that the choices in Iraq would ultimately boil down to mass butchery or defeat. But, as the above post indicates, over the years I’ve become progressively less certain what the ultimate decision would be — and whether and when the American military would flinch from the implications of [...]

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Drinking Liberally Christmas party tonight at Tangier, 18th & Lombard, 6-9 p.m. Bring a Secret Santa wrapped present for the gift exchange ($3 value or less) and if you can, some junk food to share. Don’t Scrooge out on us - be there!

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Finally, a way to sync your bookmarks on every machine you use!

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Someone (I forget who - maybe David Bowie) wrote a song about being a junkie and how he couldn’t believe the people he used to let into his house. St. John McCain’s got that needle in his arm now, judging from the company he keeps:
Ex-Sec/State Henry Kissinger has agreed to become an honorary co-chair for [...]

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Monty Lane:

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