You surprise me, elephantman. Who knew?

> Mike Rogers chooses, apparently, to pick on only the

> Republicans.

Well, Mike Rogers gets paid to be partisan, so it doesn't surprise me that he'd go after Rep. David Dreier. As for me, I'd say that as long as Dreier keeps his nose clean, it's his closet and he can hide in it.

> So who's the partisan hypocrite?

All this sound and fury for this? Sure, call Mike Rogers a partisan hypocrite if you want to. But that doesn't make Senator Craig's predicament any less amusing. And if Dreier gets caught in a public toilet with his hand down some guy's pants, I'd be laughing with everyone else.

Nice fallback position, Elephantman. Well, then, don't let us stop you from posting blustering and outraged posts with no backing sources or information. It's a shame--I was all ready to ridicule a closeted Democrat, too.

I betcha he was tapping his feet while waiting for Bush to call on him during press conferences.

He's 9/11 almost 9/11 as 9/11 bad 9/11 as 9/11 Rudy.

9/11.

After the FISA debacle I'm through with this Congress. I had hoped that there was some overarching long-term strategy to this behavior but Reid and Pelosi are on notice.

It looks like Speaker Pelosi was indeed a nightmare, but not a Republican nightmare like everyone thought. And while I'm at it--go to hell, Harry.

History will not be kind on any of the actors in this post-Millenial governmental travesty.

I figured this letters thread would devolve quickly into a righteous rescuers flamewar, and I'm so heartened it has not six posts in. Mmmmm... the smell of verbal napalm...

His "Nostradamus: The Man Who Saw Tomorrow" was the perfect blend of schlock and dramatic intoning of doom. I saw it in sixth grade and was highly entertained and just a little bit worried. Fortunately, Teddy Kennedy didn't get the nomination for President in 1984, which blew one of the main predictions out of the water. I kept wondering about the "Man in the Blue Turban" though.

If you're wondering why I was watching such things in class, I had an "art" teacher that was a little off. She believed in Nostradamus, that UPC codes were the Mark of the Beast, and if the Equal Rights Amendment were passed we'd all have to have unisex showers and bathrooms. By the end of the year I'd learned a lot, but not about art.

I guess Hannah Storm thought she was being dynamic and tough, bulldogging the tough answers out of a recalcitrant subject.

You and Bar unleashed this prodigy on the world. I hope those tears are bitter, bitter wormwood.

It's just gotten so tedious here lately. Nothing but shouting and BDS gone wild.

Once upon a time there were three billy goats, who were to go up to the hillside to make themselves fat, and the name of all three was "Gruff."

On the way up was a bridge over a cascading stream they had to cross; and under the bridge lived virtue001, with eyes as big as saucers, and a nose as long as a poker.

Time to start brushing up on the Suez Crisis or various other examples as the juddering British Empire finally disintegrated in the postwar years.

The next couple decades will be very interesting.

It'd been so long since I heard the simple, plain, unvarnished truth that I got a little teary-eyed reading that. No, I'm not being snarky. I hope those assembled at the hearing were affected as well.

I wanna see this in person.

...and then I saw the previews. God, what dreck! A friend of mine recoiled in horror. "I want the meat and bones, I want Beowulf, I want a good hack-n-slash history movie!" he cried. Oh, would that be true.

Angelina Jolie... gimme a break. When I saw she was in it, and as Grendel's mother, no less, I knew this was going to be a cinematic schlockfest on par with "Alexander".

If you want a decent movie with some gritty realism and nice period costumes, try renting "The 13th Warrior". No, it's not Oscar material, but there's very little CGI, and no Angelina Jolie at all.

The microscopic gays can 'flagellate' themselves.

That's just cilia.

When reporters actually asked some interesting questions and followed up on the responses, or lack of response.

Of course, this guy will be canned from the White House press beat tomorrow.

Anyone who saw "American Gangster" or "Man on Fire" knows that when Washington allows the nice-guy façade to slip, very interesting things happen.

Neither of those movies was perfect, but they made me sit up and take notice. All of the "nice guy" characters Washington gets to play suddenly looked like boring exercises to pay the bills.

Perhaps "angry black man" is a cliché, but when Washington does it, he's just a man, who has a vast inner fire he's trying to control, and his performance flows like water.

I'm really starting to like the idea of Mike Huckabee as the Republican candidate of choice. The Democrats could even run John Kerry again and win this one.

It would be lovely if this administration was brought to heel on this and many other matters, but it looks like the prevailing attitude is to let them slide off into quiet retirement. A job well done for the PNAC.

Remember, any uproar over this would be contrary to the spirit of bipartisanship.