leads to good things. Ari just apologized to Lloyd and gave him a job as an agent, along with a sign on his office that said, "Congratulations, you're finally an Asian."

In other news, here is how Lewis Black described what happened throughout the Bush administration years:

The Republicans would fart, and the Democrats would say, "Ooooh, can I smell that?"

The proliferation of jacKoses is so tedious.

is losing weight--is he back on the Oxycontin?

On topic--someone who was run the hell out of Kos town for his words said that Obama took the family to church on Sunday, when he rarely goes, with the intention of looking like a good family man while teh gays shout at him from the street. The writer thought it was a calculated move. If that's true, damn, that is awful.

Now, I am going to write a letter to Bill Maher asking him to donate to help out my upcoming animal adoption event. He'll probably never see it, but it's worth a try.

This Dudeist Priest will allow for no other opinion: Fargo is a great movie, but Lebowski is utterly sublime.

Every time I watch it, I overflow with mirth and delight. I marvel at what Jeff Bridges did with that role. Ineffable in his brilliance, he crafted a uniquely American antihero, or should I say, apathero.

What other movie could inspire a gathering of "achievers" who enjoy a giant severed toe cake delivered by Duff Goldman?

"Vagina."

6. Call corporatism and cronyism "centrism."

I just think this is so so right. He is talking about the award of the Nobel to Obama for his comforting illusions.

More likely the Obama critics who believe that Obama won this award for not being George Bush are right as well. The problem the international community had with Bush wasn’t that he believed in war and the use of force, it was that he believed in the unilateral use of these things. Bush did not believe in the use of force as an expression of a whole society’s values, he believed in it as an expression of his own machismo.

He was like Slim Pickens in Dr. Strangelove, flying through history with a bomb between his legs, shouting “Yee, haw!” It wasn’t so much that this behavior was wrong, it was just unseemly. He was like the drunk at a Victorian tea party who during the soup course makes jokes about the hostess’s secret pregnancy in France. We Westerners, we just don’t do things like that. Decorum, sir, decorum!

How do we do things? We keep the troops in those faraway places like Afghanistan and Iraq, sure, but while we do that we make sure to extol things like tolerance and dialogue and the spirit of diplomacy. We make sure that the same people who were not involved in the decision-making process during the previous bombing runs under Bush are in the loop again, now and hopefully forever. We smile a lot and say nice things about the Geneva convention and the impropriety of torture and secret detention, the importance of the rule of international law. We make everybody feel better about how things are going to go from now on.

This is what Barack Obama did to “earn” the Nobel Prize. He put the benevolent face back on things. He is a good-looking black law professor with an obvious bent for dialogue and discussion and inclusion. That he hasn’t actually reversed any of Bush’s more notorious policies — hasn’t closed Guantanamo Bay, hasn’t ended secret detentions, hasn’t amped down Iraq or Afghanistan — is another matter. What he has done is remove the stink of unilateralism from those policies.

(Linked in Glenn's blog)

Decorum, indeed. So what Obama has done is persuaded the Europeans that we are rejoining the Gentlemen's Club with them--we will no longer go all Clint Eastwood on their asses. And now we can all smile as "advanced" nations and clap one another on the back in smug self-regard.

"oh, snap!"

I'm part German and the rest Anglo-Scottish-Welsh-Irish

I'm a lumberjack

and I'm OK!

are the number one snack of the chickenhawks?

I thought cheetos were what the stenographers say the filthy unserious bloggers shoved down their pieholes when writing their "screeds."

Has "cheeto eating" become the all-purpose slur? Hmph. Good thing I don't like 'em.