Paul McCartney:

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Dearest Snuzy,
Allow me to suggest a spoon.

You can even even get one of these bad boys in plastic and for free if you’re steeping on the run.

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Anna Nichole Smith stories, however, presumably are still fair game.
On Feb. 13, the Associated Press declared its plans to boldly go where few wire services would dare to go in this day and age: the no–Paris Hilton zone.
“Next week,” entertainment editor Jesse Washington wrote in an e-mail memo obtained by The Transom, “the print team […]

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Gen Y-ers are (generally speaking) selfish narcissists. So I can look forward to an old age run by a bunch of whiny-ass titty babies? Can’t wait.
All the effort to boost children’s self-esteem may have backfired and produced a generation of college students who are more narcissistic than their Gen X predecessors, according to […]

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Josh Marshall:
The U.S. attorney from New Mexico who was recently fired by the Bush administration said Wednesday that he believes he was forced out because he refused to rush an indictment in an ongoing probe of local Democrats a month before November’s Congressional elections.
David Iglesias said two members of Congress separately called in mid […]

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Stuff like this makes me so hot.

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Ah, Jesus. This shouldn’t happen in a civilized country:
WASHINGTON - Twelve-year-old Deamonte Driver died of a toothache Sunday.
A routine, $80 tooth extraction might have saved him.
If his mother had been insured.
If his family had not lost its Medicaid.
If Medicaid dentists weren’t so hard to find.
If his mother hadn’t been focused on getting a dentist for […]

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From that America-hating rag, the Army Times:
Soldiers at Walter Reed Army Medical Center’s Medical Hold Unit say they have been told they will wake up at 6 a.m. every morning and have their rooms ready for inspection at 7 a.m., and that they must not speak to the media.
“Some soldiers believe this is a form […]

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Bozo Bop Bags…

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Just a reminder: Daylight Saving Time lasts longer this year. Is your computer ready for that? And more importantly, are industry’s computers ready for this?

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Emmylou and Dave Matthews with the Nanci Griffith classic:

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Bet you thought that “pledge” worked both ways, huh?
A national sorority’s decision to dump two-thirds of the sisters in one of its Indiana houses — possibly because of their looks — is getting national attention and a review from the school of its sororities and fraternities.
The New York Times reported Sunday that national officers […]

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What happens to Laura Ingraham’s idiotic argument that the American people voice their support of torture by watching “24″ when the show’s star does this?
Kiefer Sutherland, the star of the hit TV show ‘24′, has been invited by the US army to discuss why it is wrong to torture prisoners.
Sutherland plays agent Jack Bauer […]

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From today’s Q&A with Howard Kurtz
Anonymous: Michelle Malkin has been loud, rude and wrong on just about any topic she has ever opined upon. Any chance you will ever profile any of the bloggers who have been serious, thoughtful and correct? Also, as the right-wing already dominates AM talk radio, cable news and other media, […]

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John Prine and Iris DeMent with a quirky love song:

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Literally.

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Ladies and gentlemen, first lady Laura “Corrina” Bush:
First Lady Laura Bush said she understands “how the American people feel” when they express frustration over Iraq, but insisted that “to leave now would be a serious mistake.” She said of Iraqis, “This is their opportunity to seize the moment, to build a really good and stable […]

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Would bombing Iran qualify as “yet another crisis“?
Strained by the demands of wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, there is a significant risk that the U.S. military won’t be able to quickly and fully respond to yet another crisis, according to a new report to Congress.
The assessment, done by the nation’s top military officer, Gen. Peter […]

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Just go read Will Bunch.

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Told ya, told ya, told ya. The culprit? Republican preference for industry self-reporting, of course!
(AP) The federal agency that’s been front and center in warning the public about tainted spinach and contaminated peanut butter is conducting just half the food safety inspections it did three years ago.
The cuts by the Food and Drug Administration […]

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Any Democrats who let this happen need to be reminded why they were elected:
Soldiers of the 1st Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division had so little time between deployments to Iraq they had to cram more than a year’s worth of training into four months.
Some had only a few days to learn how to fire their […]

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On CBS Sunday Morning:

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Just not yet. Could there be a market for combover design headstones?

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Interesting little tidbit yesterday on Meet the Press. All this hubbub about the Clinton-Obama battle of words, and yet the mainstream media barely covers Cheney calling McCain two-faced:
MR. RUSSERT: On Monday, Senator McCain even went further with Donald Rumsfeld. Let’s watch.
SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R-AZ): (Bluffton, South Carolina) I think that Donald Rumsfeld will go […]

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From Mother Jones.

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