In the Reporters Without Borders annual Worldwide Press Freedom Index.
Actually, to be more precise, the US is tied for fifty-third place. With Tonga, Croatia, and Botswana. But we kicked Madagascar’s sorry ass!
Cue Lee Greenwood: "Well, I’m proud to be an American, where at least I know I’m tied for fifty-third-most free…"
Bush said on Sunday his policy had "never been stay the course."
Except, apparently, thirty times over the last three years.
Some people are pretty good with "the Google."
UPDATE: Just watch. Via TMW and a half-dozen other places.
If this was your entry page, this is not the BobHarris.com or Trebekistan.com main page.
While you’re here, click around. Enjoy the goofy videos, see a pudu, and discover Prisoner of Trebekistan, my new humor book about playing Jeopardy! 13 times in the last ten years, losing over and over and over again. (True story.)
It’s pretty good (check out the reviews on your left!) and you can even get some holiday shopping done. Sixteen million Americans watch the show every night. I bet more than one of them is on your gift list.
Pass it on.
Prisoner of Trebekistan just got a few more nice words:
Ladies and gentlemen, the holy grail of pudublogging — I give you…
… the albino pudu.
This is a rare creature indeed.
In pudu lore it is commonly believed that the albino pudu has the ability to grant you three wishes. Although the wishes have to be very small. And something a pudu can do. Preferably involving something to eat. For them.
Among larger red deer, the albino pudu is simply considered handy to have around, in case the red deer want to play a game of pudu tiddlywinks, and they want to keep track of which pudu is the squidger.
Pudus themselves usually giggle when they fly into the cup.