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We’ve probably had about 75 so far. No whore costumes yet (though I wouldn’t expect to see them around here).

It went something like this:
Robert Goulet ->
Camelot ->
The Once and Future King (TH White), surely the most underappreciated work of literature of the entire 20th century, and one of the best reads there is. Anyway, the process continued:
I haven’t read that in thirty-some years ->
I’d love to reread that ->
Where is my copy, that I […]

Roubert Goulet has passed away. I think I’ll put Camelot in the DVD player.

Eeek!

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Tell me this doesn’t look good: Smoked pork loin. Clickee to see the bigee.

And some recent food. Sunday’s fried chicken.

Saturday’s Italian sausage and peppers.

And apple crisp (with Haagen-Dasz vanilla).

Decapigate recapitated, because, you know, those leftists just can’t resist maligning the military.

Scientists Find Oldest Living Animal, Then Kill It. I might have a bit more sympathy for this hapless clam, except that in the last week, I’ve seen three shows about geoducks (pron. “gooeyduck”).
Folks, I don’t care how good they taste. Some things are just too damned ugly to eat. This is one.

I’m Sorry… Was That Supposed to be Journalism?

I ran out and got two pork loins and I’m smoking them now. When they’re done (around five), I’ll let them cool, cut them up. and freeze them. They make an excellent — and cheaper — substitute for imported mild ham. That’s why I got loins, not my favorite cut of pork. They’re lean, and […]

For the CHIL-DERN!

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Right now is the intermission of Doctor Zhivago. Yankee Doodle Dandy starts at 8:00, and if you’re a night owl or have TiVO, St. Louis Blues comes on at 1:00 am.

Ace: Maxim’s “Famous People Who Look Like They Smell”

Back when I was a grad student teaching in that ESL program, we had an incident (well, quite a few, but one that’s particularly relevant here) that was unsettling. When I went to the administrative meeting one week, there was a new item on the agenda: Student-teacher relationships.
Now. the director never changed the agenda. Hadn’t […]

George Will makes some observations that social conservatives need badly to hear:
Abortion policy is almost entirely in the custody of the U.S. Supreme Court and will remain so unless or until the court decides to restore moral federalism regarding the issue. On Jan. 20, 2009, when the next president is inaugurated, the court will have […]

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Wade commented on this article, and pointed to this “academic” project:
As current and future leaders, many of you will have a hand in writing primary documents for […]

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Hey, it’s Sunday. Chicken, mashed potatoes and gravy, and broccoli.

Bruce to John Edwards:
Tell you what, Pretty Boy. The day you tear down your multi-million dollar waterfront vacation home and turn it into a safe nesting ground for the local piping plover population, transform your palatial 28,000 sf mansion into a 200-bed inpatient rehab clinic, and move your family into a modest 2,000 square foot […]

I’d better go put on some socks and a sweatshirt before we leave the house. It’s 45 degrees outside.

Not content to be out-wackoed by Dennis “Elf-King” Kucinich or Ron Paul, Bill Richardson dives into the deep end:
If he wins his bid for the White House, Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson may be just the man to get to the bottom of the 60-year-old Roswell UFO mystery.
Answering questions at a townhall meeting Friday, a […]

These people are nuts. A constitutional convention in Pennsylvania? Are you kidding? It would be one, long, “For the chil-dern!” entitlementfest.
Don’t think so, folks.

There’s a lot on the dextrosphere about MSU’s YAF inviting Nick Griffin (BNP) to speak (LGF, Hotair), but there’s one striking thing about this travesty that everybody is missing.
Don’t you think it odd, if not downright ironic, that a chapter of an organization started by William F. Buckley, the man who is largely responsible for […]

F*ck Dialog.

What’s a radiohead?

And it goes — surprise — to a Democrat, Tom Lantos, addressing a bunch of whiny, panty-waisted Europeons:
Europe was not as outraged by Auschwitz as by Guantanamo Bay
The neutron bomb. It was made to drop on western Europe.

Mugabe apparently isn’t only a commie shitbag who needs to be shot in the head, but a moron as well. Looks like they hired a Moses-wannabe:
When Nomatter Tagarira, a spirit medium, claimed that she could conjure refined diesel out of a rock by striking it with her staff, ministers in Robert Mugabe’s Government believed that […]

Another “scientific” Chicken Littlism bites the dust. More, including links to pics, here.

This just in from Say Uncle. You’d think that a law enforcement agency that pulled licenses for, oh, filling in “Y” instead of “Yes” would be pretty good record keepers themselves, right?
Wrong.
It seems the ATF misplaced 500 records and four machine guns. Your tax dollars at work.

Pennsylvania certainly is colorful — literally:
You know it is a new day in Pennsylvania when judges seeking retention across the state fear an old bus that looks like a pink pig!
The pink pig bus tour kicked off this week and will urge voters to vote no to all judges seeking retention in November. Gene Stilp, […]

In the same story, we have the facts:
Four people have been arrested on arson suspicion so far and $US150,000 reward is offered for any information leading to further arrests.
And the “narrative”:
the fires currently devastating California are the latest sign of how climate change is affecting humanity
So did “climate change” somehow cause the arsonists to set […]

“News” from Reuters:
Emails containing malicious PDF files have been putting computers at risk since Friday, Finnish security software firm F-Secure said on Saturday.
“The emails sent in bulk looked like credit card statements, and contained an attachment called ‘report.pdf’,” its chief research officer Mikko Hypponen said in a statement.
When such PDF files are viewed on vulnerable […]

This will wake you up. Rimsy-Korsakov’s Flight of the Bumblebee on ten pianos. This gives synch a whole new meaning.

My mother was a pianist and piano teacher. She packed me off to Miss Mabel’s house up the street for lessons starting when I was five years old. When Miss Mabel retired, my parents bought her Steinway M built in 1927, and had it rebuilt. My mother took over as my teacher.
I’ll gloss over all […]

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One losing candidate at a time.

Megan McArdle:
Every time I see some middle class parent prattling about vouchers ‘destroying’ the public schools by ‘cherry picking’ the best students, when they’ve made damn sure that their own precious little cherries have been plucked out of the failing school systems, I seethe with barely controllable inward rage. It is the vilest hypocrisy on […]

The lights were low throughout the performance, but particularly so during the first scene. This is as good as the tape. Oh, did I mention that this performance cost us $15.00? Believe it or not, there are people who complain about “high prices” at the IU Opera. Seriously. Priced tickets at the Met lately?
(Leporello, the […]

The Field of Agincourt:

Ten thousand French that in the field lie slain:

a Happy St. Crispin’s Day. 592 years ago today was the Battle of Agincourt.

What’s he that wishes so?
My cousin Westmoreland? No, my fair cousin;
If we are mark’d to die, we are enow
To do our country loss; and if to live,
The fewer men, the greater share of honour.
God’s will! I pray thee, wish not one man […]