Now that conjoined twins have been split, what impossibly-bound objects are next?
Joe Lieberman’s lips from George W. Bush’s… um… policies
169   72.5%
The Bush family and Rev. Sun Myung Moon
34   14.6%
Patrick Fitzgerald from Dick Cheney’s future
18   7.7%
The Dow Jones Industrial Average from its level when Bush took office
12   5.2%

(For those who are curious about the Rev. Moon reference, just click on the link for more.)

Now that full-face transplants are becoming possible, I’m wondering about who’s a good candidate

Sorry the pudu is a little late this week.

Of course, time shifts happen around pudus a lot.  Long-time readers are familiar with the strange phenomenon of the Nuzzling.  Simply by touching you with its nose, a pudu can trigger a mild temporal shift, allowing you to glimpse exactly three seconds into the future.

Usually all you see is more nuzzling.

The effect lasts for four full seconds.  So by the end of it, you’re usually pretty discombobulated.

Sometimes even pudus themselves can lose track and have to look over their shoulder to see if they’re still there.

Usually they find they’re just a little bit ahead of their own keisters.

As am I, most days.

As am I.

More fun as this finally all comes together

I’m reluctant to give this woman even an ounce of attention, but Ann
Coulter’s latest book title really does strike me as the completion of
a rather brilliant three-volume performance cycle exploring psychological projection, a deconstruction of poltical punditry brilliantly conceived to examine the limits of self-loathing.

The irony of Coulter authoring a volume called Slander was amazing enough as it was, although it seemed a bit obvious, the work of an artist still learning her craft.  Then Treason, coming from a supporter of an administration which leaked Valerie Plame’s identity, doing grave damage to our intelligence on WMD proliferation in the Middle East, seemed like a promising step forward.

But now comes Godless, written by a woman who not only does not attend the church she claims to,
but whose entire income depends on publicly breaking at least three of
the Ten Commandments

Deciding vote in the 5-4 ruling: Alito.

If O’Connor were still on the bench, it would have been 5-4 the other way.

There will be many more rulings like this in the coming twenty years.

In the week before the 2004 election, I kept a big ol’ picture of the aging Supremes on the top of the site, correctly pointing out that Rehnquist wasn’t long for this world. Preventing Chimpus Maximus from stacking the court with authoritarian judges really was the key issue in that election.

Sigh.

So other than no-knock entries, the destruction of habeus corpus, imprisonment without trial, rendition of suspects for overseas torture, rigged elections, "signing statements," and massive illegal domestic spying, this whole freedom and democracy thing is all working out just swell.

[singing quietly to myself, as if to give myself a little hope:] "… we’ve golden soil and wealth for toil; our home is girt by sea…"