Maybe the Air Loom is causing all the trouble

James Tilly Masters: Schizophrenic or visionary?

Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street

Frank Luntz and Minneapolis GOSPers in a focus group

It wasn't $120,000, just a mere $50,000

Denver lawyer robbed in St. Paul.

Hockey moms for truth

Who let the Beagles out...

Back at the shack we had Spike Jones on the box

Christian Bale plus Kermit the Frog

You gotta see this.

Bicycle notes

Gratuitous

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Recently discovered

Glommed from a different random blog...

The liberal news media are going nuts over Gov. Sarah Palin’s church which is promoting a conference called “pray away the gay.”

Do not enlarge this link if you have a low gag reflex.

Possible explanations

Higgs boson was the boatswain on a ship who reported to Captain Hollister P. Higgs who is famous for being the most elusive sea captain of his day but pivotal to the whole existence of the mercantile economy.

Higgs boson is the ancestral home of a particle physicist who was a contemporary of Sir Issac Newton but the two feuded over a craps game that one or the other had developed on a trip to France.

Higgs boson is a form of respiratory disease unique to outlining islands of the Phillipines.

Higgs boson is a particle or an attitude that holds up the universe as we know it, and if the guys down at CERN prove it doesn't exist then the whole Newtonian-Eisteinian complex comes crumbling down like a cheap tent, and then where will we be?

Venus vs. Serena

has to be something of a pull away from the RNC (now you can call it a Pawh-TY) now that we've gotten our sanctimoniousness shipped off, we can get on with making the case for a stronger America that's not afraid to run up even deeper debts for international adventuring and nation building, and since FAUX is running a season premiere Bones, maybe it ought to be clear that they don't want you to watch.

All the care and concern for Sarah Palin's daughter has detracted mucho attention away from the batship crazy factor of the whole extended family. A Hampden correspondent with some expertise on redneckism reports that Jamie Lynn Spears of Zoey 101 who was also mega-publicly enciente and knows what it's like to roll around in the back of the barn without the blessings of the church sent her support to Bristol Palin. Bristol? Are they kidding?

Fun with words

Shibboleth
If you are a pansy and peacenik, you say "Vi-et Nahm." If you are a true blue American, you say "Veet Namn."

(What occurred to Beaglesnoopers while gagging at Cindy's paean*)

* a hymn of invocation or thanksgiving to Apollo or some other ancient Greek deity

BS

That pipeline, when the last section is laid and its valves are opened, will lead America one step farther away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.

The stakes for our nation could not be higher.

When a hurricane strikes in the Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

And families cannot throw away more and more of their paychecks on gas and heating oil.

With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in the Caucasus, and to divide and intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weapon, we cannot leave ourselves at the mercy of foreign suppliers.

To confront the threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies ... or that terrorists might strike again at the Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia ... or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries ... we Americans need to produce more of our own oil and gas.

Gratuitous

Wedding bell black and blues