Right Wing Nation

Awwww!
For the first time since he was running for governor in 2002, Ed Rendell will not come to Penn State’s Ag Progress Days this year, a Rendell spokesman said.
Whatever will we do?

From Fr. Richtsteig, in Terms I Dislike:
People of color–What am I? Transparent?

Sunny has passed away. Go console Rachel.

Remember Eddie Murphy’s Kill All The White People skit on SNL (sorry, audio only).
That was, oh, probably 76 or 77. Now, it’s Kill All The Fat People, and that ain’t no SNL skit. Like I said there, just wait, second-hand obesity is on the way, and then everybody will jump on board, just like they […]

Like that’s surprising. Patterico documents.

That’s this morning. Nothing here until this afternoon.

First, a quiz. Which American car company did not take a government handout?
Surely, you know, right?
Ford.
And which American car company posted a quarterly profit of over 2 billion?
In recent months, the carmaker has claimed market share from its American rivals, General Motors and Chrysler, while those companies struggled to restructure their operations in bankruptcy court.
Ford […]

The Blogfather: If healthcare is a “right,” why does it depend on what the government says you can have?

So we’ve been watching Torchwood: Children of Earth. I wasn’t quite sure what it would be like, given that it’s a Dr. Who spin-off (and I hate that show). Torchwood is called “Dr. Who for adults,” though, and it doesn’t have the campy stupidity.
It’s a five-part mini-series, however, and in part three, which we watched […]

The Unbearable Whiteness of Being Maureen Dowd

Hilarious! Go read! Now!

Holy crap!

It started out cliché. FBI v. cops, but deep undercover cops. It got a lot better, though, starting when Carter (we’ll get to him) recruited the new cop, who turned out to be “under cover,” since he’d dug up her juvie record nobody on the force knew about. That was intriguing. The story picked up, […]

See Sebastian.

What we called cobbler when I grew up was pretty much a deep-dish pie, not baked in a pie pan. Pie pastry on the bottom and sides, fruit, pastry on top.
This is a lot simpler: Fruit with shortcake baked on top. It will take you about an hour. By “berry” I mean raspberry, blackberry, one […]

One of the stars of Harper’s Island (character Trish), Katie Cassidy, is the daughter of David Cassidy and granddaughter of Shirley Jones.
The show is over now. Okay, so since about the fourth episode, I’ve been saying that Jimmy was the other killer, just because he was the only island character (it pretty much had to […]

Yesterday at the Central Pennsylvania Arts Fair: First, halubtsi (cabbage rolls), haluski (cabbage, onions, and egg noodles floating in butter), and pierogies (also floating in butter and onions). Then up College to Herwig’s for apfelstrudel, then a cone of Death By Chocolate at the Creamery on the way back to the car. I swore I’d […]

No Arts Festival pics this year, from either one, as I am camera-less, and both festivals are going on right now. I suspect I will go fairly soon just to pig out on pierogies and ice cream.

Uncle Jimbo published the template for every Obama speech given overseas.
Greetings great and mighty culture, I am the Obama leader of New America. I am a cultured, urbane, black man with a Muslim name and I carry no baggage.
Your culture is great and wonderful, your poets brilliant, I will now quote one I have never […]

and he has a couple of great articles, first here, then here.

Videos and pics from the last meeting of Civil War Veterans in 1938.

“It’s a crisis! 0.059% of travelers are too stupid to distinguish between Lindbergh and Humphrey! We need to spend millions of dollars!”
Hat tip: Hot Air.

So on TV just now was an ad for EcoCanteen. For just $9.95 plus shipping and handling you can have a bottle for your water! Plastic fills landfills!
The ad is geared for the eco-morons who can’t figure out that they can refill a plastic bottle. I can’t help but recall several scenes from the recent […]

Fairly simple today. I poached two chicken breasts in about 3 c. of stock, while I put 8 anchos and 4 pasillas de oaxaca on to soak, all for thirty minutes. I removed the chicken and refrigerated it, stemmed and seeded the chilis, then pureed them with most of the stock. I heated a couple […]

The guys at Popular Mechanics are right. The Grill Daddy actually works.

The only thing crazier than a squeal-y little Michael Jackson fan is, of course, Michael Jackson — oh wait, he’s dead, isn’t he. The nutjobs have crawled out from under their rocks.
Michael Jackson had a secret girlfriend!
Right. A six year-old “girlfriend” named Brucie. Or “Blanket.” Or “Prince.”
MICHAEL JACKSON IS ALIVE! Pop King faked his death, […]

Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776
When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, […]

Taxpayer-funded vacations by politicians up 50% since 2006! Ruin the economy, then take a trip to the Virgins Islands and make the taxpayers foot the bill! Then come back to Washington, and take the wrecking ball to the economy again!

Sustainable lingerie. Seriously. You can’t make this stuff up.

Carne Asada, Rojas, and Guacamole.

Recipes here.

From the local rag.
Funeral preparations are underway for the late television pitchman Billy Mays.
A visitation is scheduled for 1 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the Anthony M. Musmanno Funeral Home in Mays’ hometown of McKees Rocks, near Pittsburgh.
He is to be buried Friday morning.

Thanks to Rory, I have Google Desktop, which among other things, keeps track of the websites you visit and when they update, displays the headlines in an RSS feed. So when I saw this headline, I was, er, so, uh, taken aback that I immediately checked it out.
Maggie’s Farm: “I’m A Lesbian”, which turns out […]