Since I’m not up on my Biblical Tales of Mystery and Imagination, I was unaware that Sarah Palin is modeling herself after a real life lady wannabe-martyr:

Bil Kristol’s dumb-muppet is not a fan of Republican Almost-Obama, Michael Steele:

Please extend a laurel and hardy handshake to the newest members of FDL, The Seminal.

Ever since David Frum lost his job with the Bush Administration because his nitwit wife couldn’t keeping her goddamn mouth shut, he’s been itching to stick it to the Republicans…

I haven’t been over to BigHo in some time now and I see that Editor in Chief (No. Really. They have an editor. An “in chief “one too) Joihn Nolte has a bone to pick with that Sasha Borat Bruno-Cohen guy….

It’s my birthday today which apparently means that I’m still not celebrity enough to die.

I ‘m old enough to remember when “seat-of-the-pants gusto” was called “pulling it out of your ass”.

Yesterday I failed to note that Ross Douthat had written a column in which he pointed out that an anti-abortion conservative of dubious abilities had been handed an undeserved national platform…

Koans often appear to be paradoxical or linguistically meaningless dialogues or questions. But to Zen Buddhists the koan is “the place and the time and the event where truth reveals itself” unobstructed by the oppositions and differentiations of language.

This post is Palin-free.