I'm a Republican trapped in the body of a liberal Democrat! This is not my Prius! Why do I have to wear Birkenstocks? And blue-- I *hate* the color blue!

...Bernie Kerik wants the job?

Sarah Palin? That would pretty much guarantee that she'd never be seen or heard from ever again.

I've got a new first prize for "American Idol."

...than a troll.

Oh, and Rush Limbaugh is a big fat idiot.

...if copies of "My Pet Goat" will be on sale in the gift shop.

So far, all you've seen fit to post is the same info again and again, and none of it is relevant to the topics in which you post. You don't even bother to publish a link. Frankly, any interest I might have had in what you're posting about disappeared after the seventeenth time you posted it. All you are doing is alienating people, not winning them over. Get a life, and get a better way of getting your point across than spamming us all.

...atsegga's spam post has been removed. Carry on...

...the Jews! I don't know exactly, but you can just bet they're responsible somehow!

...sure rearranges your priorities, doesn't it?

Are you sure that it was Keith Olbermann who was overheard saying "Oh God" when Bobby Jindal appeared? Joan Walsh seems to think it was Chris Mathews.

The republicans don't need idiots like Michelle Bachmann or the mayor of Los Alamitos to show how contemptuous they are to black voters. They've got a better example among their own: Michael Steele playing Uncle Tom to Rush Limbaugh as Simon Legree.

The republicans don't need idiots like Michelle Bachmann or the mayor of Los Alamitos to show how contemptuous they are to black voters. They've got a better example among their own: Michael Steele playing Uncle Tom to Rush Limbaugh as Simon Legree.

Pardon me while I go kill myself. Fanboys all over are probably doing the same. A squid-free movie-- what a breath of fresh air! Sushi, anyone?

...that in the unlikely event that all of the birthers' claims are totally debunked, then they'll shift to Plan B-- the birth certificate is real, but Obama himself was switched at the madrassa with a Muslim-indoctrinated clone.

-- you can bring back "Kansas O'Flaherty" if you promise to put a stake through Paglia's heart.

...is at all relevant, but I think it may be worthwhile to mention that Rags Gupta served as the COO of Live365, a major internet radio network.

...the hatchet job Gary Trudeau has been doing about Twitter in Doonesbury the past two weeks (except Sundays). Check it out here at the start of the sequence:

http://news.yahoo.com/comics/uclickcomics/20090302/cx_db_uc/db20090302

...that there is a guy named David Hamilton who is famous for photos and movies of young, barely pubescent nude girls. How do we know that this isn't the same guy? Has anybody seen the birth certificate? Are you sure that it's a *real* birth certificate? How do you know?

...than oddballs. Anybody else remember the telephone call-in show that Jimmy Carter set up with Walter Cronkite as moderator-- and how many of the callers were obsessed with laetrile?

That's what I wanna know...

If I recall correctly, waaaaaay at the very end, at the end of the closing credits, there is a scene of Diesel's character driving south of the border.

...is that the people depicted in the last panel, what the brain was experiencing, were more attractive than the people in the real world.

...see John Waters' movie "Pecker" or check out the Urban Dictionary online.

The prophet Elijah won't be able to make it through security.

So is the Easter Egg Roll and the annual White House Christmas Tree.

...is that the VA is apologizing and is returning the reporter's flash card. See:

http://www.salon.com/wires/ap/2009/04/10/D97FUBQG0_veterans_seized_tape/index.html

... that it should be "cubical" rather than "cubicle" butt.

-- that slimeball is considered a celebrity???

Lately, I have been pondering the whys and wherefores of what causes me to cry. I have noticed over the past several years that there are some things that will cause me to choke up, and that doing so is an almost Pavlovian response to certain situations; I may not even consciously realize that a triggering event has taken place-- but I feel the tears coming on anyway, and I will then try to figure out what the cause was.

Here are some of the things that will cause me to tear up:

* Heroism

* Sacrifice

* Achievement

When I hear/read/see something wherein someone acts heroically, or makes a sacrifice for others, that will set me off. It doesn't even have to be real. Also, witnessing someone strive for something and winning, that will do it, too (I was teary-eyed throughout Barack Obama's acceptance speech).

I think Susan Boyle earned my tears by having the heroism to stand and deliver before an audience, and by winning them over with a display of talent they did not expect.

I'm tearing up just typing this, and I'm a 55-year-old straight male

..."Celebrity Death Match" with Jane Harman and Rod Blagojevich going head-to-head.

...handing out my mom's Valium.

...you're no Ann Richards. i bet she could kick your ass if she was still alive.

I just wish I knew what it was...

...please call my sister.

...of New Mexico, the local McDonalds has the elusive McDouble available on the Dollar Menu along with a Spicy McChicken sandwich and a small order of fries in addition to the items mentioned in the article.

The real winner in cheap food out here is the Sonic Drive-In chain. They have a new "Everyday Value Menu" that includes eleven different items and features a "Jr. Deluxe Burger." I can't figure out their strategy: The Jr. Deluxe has lettuce and tomato, yet it costs less than the kiddie burger that appears elsewhere on their menu. Whatevs-- it's a good deal.