X. Benedict

<rubs eyes and re-reads> Thankfully there are enough drunk, meat-eating people with pre-cancerous lesions and fur hats to keep Tel Aviv on the map.

Actually Hitler was a teetotaler and vegetarian. So, all you sober veggie eating Jew hating Nazi's, may be more appropriate.

I have long wondered about that. The congress could conceivably try to use the War Powers Act - which might cause a constitutional crisis.

Congress really only has two crude instruments for managing the war, cut off the money, or pull out the troops. In the absence of one or the other, which would require the congress to begin micromanaging this whole thing (a pretty bad idea). This entire show of active inaction is probably better than using the crude tools.

While Bush never said "Saddam is responsible for 9-11" the public posture was always one of constant conjunction - "Saddam and the Terrorists" and even though he never said Saddam planned 9-11. He always including 9-11 in the rationale for invading Iraq. the administration never dispelled the publics linkage between the two: When he sent this to congress - he wasn't talking about Saudi Arabi. http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/20...20030319-1.html We are attacking Iraq .....blah ....blah....blah..... 9-11. And you can also recall that it was news when Bush came out and said Saddam had nothing to do with 9-11. I'm not trying to play gotcha here, but portraying the president as blameless as the virgin snow is, well, kinda worth a chuckle.

Sycophant, celibate, gay.... it is all a matter of lifestyle choice.

Celibate

Eugenics for dookies is not a vain pursuit.

So if I took a giant Dookie, and that Dookie had 4 pieces of peanut and 3 pieces of corn in it, what would 3.5 mean in this instance? link? I thought so.

They way overpaid for an injury prone rental. Anything less than the cup and this is a terrible deal.

I spent a lot of time in there.

That elbow to hand trick usually impresses the talent.

This is really worth a listen. Imagine being the only guy sharing an office with a guy who is a religious/paranoid/sociopath. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7094972

It's Pro-fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuse!

I can just see Marty doing sit-ups in his yard with 4 ft. of snow while on the phone to his agent

Let me try: it would be BIG! ?

I think his subjects are attracted to the format. They know they are going to have a chance to air their thinking on a subject matter without the fear of "gotcha" or being pidgeoned into the liberal/convservative echo chambers. Most of his guests either have some kind of excusive insight into a subject or stand starkly against conventional wisdom in some way or another. As an interviewer he tends to give as much leeway to a Milton Freeman or a Henry Kissinger as he does to any CEO or author. He does have an annoying habit of paraphrasing at times that is sometimes inexact - but usually gives his guests time to correct it if he has the impression wrong. There really is no other television format quite like it.

PBS

I have a standing bet that somebody gets killed in the UFC before March of 2008.

Disco Demolition night was a public service devoid of political content. Even Kiss sang "I was made for Loving You, Baby" that year. Someone had to put a foot down.

Until then we'll just have to pretend he wasn't the best GM Buffalo ever had.

His show is probably the only regularly scheduled show I watch these days. I don't seem to have a lot of luck getting his site to download cleanly, but I usually see it at night anyway. I'm looking forward to his Newt Hour.

He can be really sneaky that way.

This place was probably the best place I've been to in the last 3 or 4 yrs. Vie, just west of Chicago: http://www.vierestaurant.com/

HFB!!!!