BlogBites

October 23rd, 2004

Either all the effort to hype an election day al Qaida threat is just another effort to use the White House’s control over the intelligence community as a campaign asset or Rice is shirking her duties at a moment of acute national peril. Talking Points Memo  

Given that Preznit Summer Vacation was not reading the PDB’s in August of 2001, it’s awfully tough to make the case for his credentials as some kind of anti-terrorist wunderkind. Democratic Veteran  

There’s nothing that says “old fashioned Christian justice” quite like a bloody broadsword. Jesus’ General  

There are seventy thousand dead in Darfur an I’m watchin TV. “Mary Cheney gay,” says TV. Fafblog!  

I really have no idea what [Bunko] is, but in my little world it involves silky nighties, a trampoline and down-filled fugal sticks. Oh No, The Blog  

Do you suppose that the inventor of the vibrator heard a voice that said: “If you build it, they will come.” ? Profoundly Superficial  

I’m kind of looking forward to despair because it’s got this great sense of lonliness attached to it. Fat Eye For The Skinny Guy  

And as long as we’re being completely honest, I’ve had better. Bloomin’ Buzzin’ Confusion  

Last night 21-year-old Emerson College journalism major Victoria Snelgrove was killed when hit in the eye by a pepper spray ball fired by Boston Police. Dowbrigade News (via Scripting News)  

If all dogs go to Heaven, and in Heaven they turn into glowing celestial versions of their mortal forms, and the vast catalog of unreasoning parasites and symbiotic bacteria that made themselves a home inside the canine are carried by proxy into heaven as well, I would imagine this Boalum tubular plastic lamp is fairly representative of what an Angel Tapeworm looks like. Gizmodo  

The bet was $5, and it was paid from one Yankee fan to one Red Sox fan promptly on Thursday morning — in pennies. SimpleBits  

I can deal with that, just about, but it comes to something when a glob of grey snot is better at computer games than I am. Ben Hammersley’s Dangerous Precedent  

So, the moral of the story would seem to be: if you can’t read it, don’t get it tattooed on you. Antipixel  

The fat lady, having yesterday grasped the armrests of her chair, has begun tensing her arm muscles as she begins to pull forward. Andrew Tobias  

I believe we were still paying tax to the throne of England when last the Sox were doing so good. Airbag