A thing of beauty

Gaze in wonder upon…
An American toilet manufacturer is currently designing a new model that will “flush the bulkiest of Korans,” sources said yesterday.
A spokesman for Krap King, Inc. said the company would have the new “Islamoflusher” model in stores for the spring, when Americans do their most flushing – sacred religious texts included. The new [...]

WordPress and RSS

OK, I’m really at the end of my rope with this RSS issue I’m having. I’ve scoured WordPress’ tech support forums, and no one seems to have a fix for it, though quite a lot of folks are experiencing it.
Basically, Worpress is throwing a blank CR/LF at the beginning of the XML for the [...]

Howard Dean and fundraising

Well, all…the Dean fundraising bat is back, albeit in a new, generic form that Dems other than Deaniacs can contribute to:

I know it’s great for Republican cheerleaders to have an issue they can beat Dean over the head with — God knows, I have a really nasty visceral reaction to Dean myself.
I think it’s a [...]

Kerry Touts Bush Impeachment Memo

Welcome to the latest phase of the John Kerry 2008 perpetual campaign:
Failed presidential candidate John Kerry said Thursday that he intends to confront Congress with a document touted by critics of President Bush as evidence that he committed impeachable crimes by falsifying evidence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
“When I go back (to Washington) [...]

Romney not ‘pro-choice’?

Adviser says governor faked stance on abortion
Governor Mitt Romney’s top political strategist has told a prominent conservative magazine that his client has been ”faking” his support of abortion rights in Massachusetts.
”He’s been a pro-life Mormon faking it as a pro-choice friendly,” Romney adviser Michael Murphy told the National Review in a cover story hitting newstands [...]

Gay infantry? You bet.

McQ at QandO has a short post up about the Robert Stout travesty:
We deal with the intergration of gays in our society daily. We handle it. Gays have been in the military since day one. They’ve been in every unit I ever served in (and I was mostly in infantry units). They’ve served honorably and [...]

Good drugs, bad pain

Well, first off I have to express my utter and complete appreciation for surgeons who provide not one, not two, but FIVE 10mg Valium tablets about 30 minutes prior to surgery. That’s 50mg of Diazepam, and it’s enough to render even the biggest sissy unafraid of pain.
I’ve got a tremendously high pain threshold under [...]

What fun

At about 8:30 AM tomorrow, I’ll be undergoing this:
Retrograde Intrarenal Surgery (RIRS)
RIRS is the treatment of choice when the cyst can be reached from the draining portion of the kidney basin. A small telescope goes through the natural opening of the body, into the ureter and up into the kidney. A cut is made with [...]

Whew.

I must admit, I had no clue that Juliette was thinking about hanging up her blog (which sounds vaguely offensive, now I see it in print), but I had a feeling that something was bugging her lately. Go read about it, if you would please.
Juliette is one of the proto-Milbloggers, and she’s been the [...]

What is it with Rolling Stone?

First, John Kerry’s famous dropping of the “F-bomb”.
Now, Rolling Stone has an upcoming interview with Senator Harry Reid. Pretty much what you would expect from Reid, blathering about protecting the filibuster, etc., until the end of the interview, where this exchange takes place:
Rolling Stone: You’ve called Bush a loser.
Harry [...]