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He hits is right out of the park. Courtesy of Frugal Hoosiers, Mitch gives the GOP National Address.

Rock star.

Today’s news of the weird.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett says a state legislative staffer wanted to engage in sex acts with a teenage boy while dressed in a panda costume.
Corbett says 40-year-old Alan David Berlin, of Carlisle, was charged Thursday with attempted sexual exploitation of children and related crimes.
A Corbett spokesman says the boy’s parents […]

Inappropriate for today, because it’s Friday, and some might feel for the season (I don’t agree there), but today’s comfort food recipes, for beef and noodles.
The World’s Best Beef and Noodles is a leftover recipe, and requires that you first make pot roast — not yankee pot roast, with which we are all familiar, but […]

I’m having second thoughts about changing host providers.

This site will be offline for a few days until the DNS servers are updated.

Ribeyes, of course.

President Pantywaist’s first foreign policy victory: North Korea conducts a nuclear test and launches a short-range missle!
Smart diplomacy! It’s new! It’s improved! Now with more nuance!

Scroll down for updates.

Eternal Light Peace Memorial, Gettysburg

“Peace Eternal in a Nation United”
Veterans of the Union and Confederate armies from across the nation converged on Gettysburg in 1938 — 75 years after the battle — for their last great reunion. All Civil War veterans were invited with expenses paid, and nearly 2,000 attended. The majority […]

Back in 1993, Brøderbund Software released Myst. Myst was at the time a unique game. You found yourself alone on a mysterious island, with no information. As you explored and uncovered bits of information, you gradually discovered that there was a back story, and learned what the island, and therefore the game, was all about. […]

Whoa! CBS canceled Without a Trace ? The other cancellations are here — I’ve never heard of most of the shows. They shouldn’t have listed Harper’s Island, though. That’s a one-season show, and less than stellar.
It’s a murder mystery on an island. Each week, at least one character gets killed. The problem is that there […]

I refused to watch the reboot of BSG, because the original was such a stinker. I was wrong, and I won’t make that same mistake again. Another reboot of a cheesy 80s Sci-Fi series is coming to ABC next season: V. From the official ABC series page:
Today, the world woke up to find spaceships over […]

An amazing photo.

This Chris Cillizza character says in the WaPo:
A new Gallup analysis shows that the precipitous decline in the number of people who identify themselves as Republicans is widespread across nearly every demographic group — a development that suggests that there is no simple solution to solving the party’s current problems.
He’s talking about the most recently […]

I voted, even though there are no contested races in my party. I also found out that my church is a voting place, with even fewer voters than across the street, since it’s in the student ghetto, which is empty right now.
Oh. Surely a Darwin Award winner. From Uncle:
Samuel Benally Jr. was at an apartment […]

Math wars come to State College.

This comment is obviously a parody of mainstream Christ-free Christianity.
Our non gender specific guardian,
Who art in a safe and non judgemental cocoon,
Hallowed by thy preferred choice of nomenclature.
Thy contitutional republic, come,
Thy mission statement reach fruition,
On our commune, as it is the Sustainable Ecosystem,
Give us this day our non exploitive,organic bruschetta with balsamic reduction,
And forgive us […]

‘Counterintuitive’ Is the New Stupid.
The Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz reports on the new “strategery” at sister publication Newsweek:
Jon Meacham admits it is hard to explain, even to his own people, why chopping Newsweek’s circulation in half is a good thing.
“It’s hugely counterintuitive,” the magazine’s editor says. “The staff doesn’t understand it.” . . .
Newsweek, owned […]

There’s a primary today. All the incumbents are GOP, and I don’t think anybody’s running against them, but I’ll go vote anyway. All the races are Dems, and this is a party registration state with closed primaries.

Those state of the art buoys for gathering data just aren’t so state of the art any more.
When they were first deployed in 2003, the Argos were hailed for their ability to collect information on ocean conditions more precisely, at more places and greater depths and in more conditions than ever before.
No longer would scientists […]

Thanks (I’m not sure that’s the right word) to Bird Dog for this, which speaks for itself.
When one Dickinson College alumna recently applied to work at a public school, she had a photocopied version of her Latin diploma returned as foreign and illegible.
Education school graduates in action.

to be worse than Apocalypto, but yes, it is, much, much worse. 10,000 B.C., that is. Obviously, I figured it was going to suck, since I didn’t go see it at the theater, but I really didn’t know a movie could suck this bad.
This commenter at IMDB sums it up just about perfectly.
The film starts […]

Just got back from Star Trek, and with one exception, all of the things that made it lousy Sci-Fi are absent from the movie. The one thing that is present is multiple timelines coexisting in close geographical proximity, but I expected that because it is a J.J. Abrams flick (if you watch Lost, you know […]

The final episode of Lost, of course. Shapiro has an interesting theory, and although I think most Lost theories are bunk, he does hit on some intriguing ideas. Certainly, the writers in the finale turned the whole show on its head, making it a conflict between Jacob and Esau (seems the most logical name choice […]

I rarely make them, because something has to be really excellent. And the first recommendation is not only excellent; it’s inexpensive, and available at Sam’s or Wal-Mart.
Country Pasta egg noodles.
Other than homemade, there is only one other product on the market in the same league (I’ll get there). These really are remarkably good. I’d eat […]

Liar, Liar, Botox on Fire

Global warming causes swine flu!

Because we can never have enough screeching, can we?
Cell phones more dangerous than smoking!
Well, what are we going to do when the swine flu (almost dead) becomes a non-issue? We need something to wring our hands about, don’t we?

Or not.
CBO: Whoops, We Need to Revise Our Deficit Projections Up by a Tad*
* A “Tad” is an Accounting Term Meaning 50%
Then, if liberals could do basic arithmetic, they wouldn’t be liberals, would they?

Connectivity is restored! We have hughestnet satellite service!

From this article.
Years ago I read an article in National Review about a Russian who was coming to the U.S. to give a talk. He told his audience that he was in a London airport when an announcement was made that the flight to New York would be non-smoking. He said everyone applauded. He said […]

It’s sunny and 58 degrees. The hottest it’s supposed to get over the next two weeks is 69.

Kyle Smith’s review of the Star Trek reboot:
[Spock’s] mother is played by Winona Ryder
If that doesn’t make you feel ancient, nothing will.

Since President Pantywaist has turned GM into the American Yugo, here’s a memorial to my favorite car of all time, the car I drove in high school, the 1968 Bonneville.
Outside:

Inside:

More pics at Vintage Dream Cars.

Just some things I found. From Christmas, 1960:

Dogs enjoying the weather:

Some of my favorite things:

A very confused moonbat — no doubt with at least one college degree.

Why is it nearly impossible to find an edible German chocolate cake at a bakery? And why do all of the bakeries here suck so bad, German chocolate cake or not? (The one good take-home baked product I’ve found, and yes, that’s only one, is the line of ice cream cakes at Coldstone.)
Today, er, yesterday […]

Both from Chanman, first a bumpersticker contradiction on one car:
My kids think I’m an ATM!
and
Obama ‘08
Obviously, not the brightest bulb in the chandelier drives that car. Okay, I was being nice. Only an idiot could put both of those bumperstickers on the same vehicle. But there are idiots of the harmless variety, and idiots of […]

Will Collier on their pal.
All Labrador Retrievers are inherently nuts. Bob was Lab-plus. Bob was definitely a Lab–he loved everybody, instantly, and the biggest danger he held to a burglar was being licked to death. He was a goofball who loved to dash around with his tail wagging at 90 miles an hour, and for […]

MSNBC:
Survey: Weather forecasts often misinterpreted
What does a 20 percent chance of rain mean? Keep reading
Oh, that’s not the scary part. This is:
But only half the population understands what a precipitation forecast means well enough to make a fully informed answer, a new study finds.
If, for example, a forecast calls for a 20 percent chance of […]

Everything about the 70s was embarrassing, but surely the most embarrassing thing was the Village People — yet there’s a movie about the “making” of the Village People. It just goes to show what happens when people are too drug addled to have a sense of shame.
It stars Bruce Jenner, more evidence of that drugged […]