Yankees Win American League East

Update: Thursday the idle Yankees backed into a tie with the Mets for best record in baseball.

Cheney Shits The Shitters

The vehicles that are sold and serviced by America's auto dealers are marvels of design, performance, and reliability, and all of you are rightly proud to work in this industry. You're part of the reason America remains among the strongest economies in the world. So it's a pleasure to be in the company of new-car and truck dealers from coast to coast -- and I bring good wishes to all of you and the members of your association from the President of the United States, George W. Bush.

Vice President's Remarks at the National Automobile Dealers Association 2006 Legislative Conference

America-Gadda-Da-Vida

You think you've heard troubador and former US Attorney General John Ashcroft--the pervert who hid the statue of justice because she wasn't wearing a top--sing Let The Eagle Soar, his biggest hit. But I'll bet you've never experienced the full 5:06 extended version. So place all necessary lotions and towels within easy reach, sit back, press play, and let Rapture disappear you to her secret overseas prison.

Get Your Bets On Reid While The Odds Are Still Good

In what could be seen as a swipe at colleagues who have publicly declared their leadership intentions, Mr Reid said: "It's quite simple, everybody else who's been putting in their tuppence worth and they're entitled to do it... I can only tell you my personal point of view.

"And that is when we're facing the biggest terrorist threat we've been facing in 50 years... when young men and women are fighting and dying in several theatres of war for this country - all of them putting the public interest first - then I shall be spending all of my time putting the public interest first as well."

Still sounds like a wannabe to me. (re: September 8th post)

Weapons For Eco-Warriors

Phew! No more lead-poisoning from gunshot wounds, at least.

Available soon at the cutting edge of ironic warfare: unexploded cluster bomblets programmed to gently pop at the disarming touch of a juvenile foot, scattering seed to sprout into peaceful olive groves.

James Bond At The McDonald's Drive-Thru

I'll have a Double Quarter Pounder with Polodico cheese. Coarsely ground Argentine tenderloin, broiled three inches from the flame, five minutes per side. Two shakes of black pepper. Arugula, cherry tomatoes, and hollandaise sauce on black bread.

French Fries, hot, very crunchy on the outside, tossed with sea salt and chopped raw onion, double side of roasted garlic mayonnaise.

Hot Apple Pie baked with Granny Smith apples, cloves instead of cinnamon to cut sweetness, top crust garnished with four thumb-sized shavings of Cabot cheddar.

And a large Sprite.

The Week In Review

Streaky. Toilet paper. Flat Daddies.

Streaky

Streaky!

"Let the public service be a proud and lively career." -- President John F. Kennedy

Dallas ex-official: Nude men robbed me

A former Dallas city planning commissioner under investigation in an FBI corruption probe was arrested on public intoxication charges early Sunday after claiming he was robbed by naked attackers at a male strip club, authorities said.

Club employees told police they removed Lee -- who said he was there picking up women -- because he was causing a disturbance.

The Eyes Have It

This interesting, if somewhat obsessive, analysis put me in mind of a London (the international capital of public surveillance) Transport poster of a few years back.



Nice technique, huh? Oversight offers simultaneous threat and security, keeps us off-balance and uneasy.

Safe or free? It's way past time to choose.