If this report is accurate, it's funny/sad. If it's inaccurate it's just funny. When Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad got an anonymous text message suggesting he didn't wash enough, he did not take it lying down. He fired the president of the phone company, had four people arrested, took other legal action and accused those involve […]
Wednesday the Supreme Court ruled 5-3 that police officers may not search a home if any person residing there objects. In the incident that created the case, police had been called to the home on a domestic violence dispute. During the course of the investigation, the wife told police that her husband had cocaine in […]
Via Best of the Web Today we have this funny bit from New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd who is in Australia promoting her book, "Are Men Necessary?" The newspaper is allowing men to post brief, singles-ad type comments in an attempt to woo the saucy Ms. Dowd ... and this one is by far […]
Bruce Fierstein over at The New York Observer is channeling the New York Times new public editor Ali bin-Zabar. Ali: This is awful. Horrible. What about the gay wedding announcements? Debbie Dear Ms. T: As you’re no doubt aware of the Koran’s position on homosexuality, let me be clear here: In the future, there will […]
Mark Steyn notes some of the silliness in attempts to compare Dick Cheney's hunting accident to Sen. Edward Kennedy doing in Mary Jo Kopechne. Fortunately, the Washington Post had that wise old bird David Ignatius to put it in the proper historical context: "This incident," he mused, "reminds me a bit of Sen. Edward Kennedy's […]
As predicted, it didn't take long for the comics to jump all over Dick Cheney. First we have David Letterman's Top 10 list of the Top Ten Dick Cheney Excuses: 10. "Heart palpitation caused trigger finger to spasm" 9. "Wanted to get the Iraq mess off the front page" 8. "Not enough Jim Beam" 7. […]
The National Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund today attacked Supreme Court nominee John Roberts for his comments on a memo when he worked for the White House counsel's office during the Reagan Administration. The memo, which addressed an upcoming American Bar Association scuba diving trip, contained the suggestion that if the scuba […]
I saw this cartoon last week, but neglected to link to it, here's an excellent Day By Day cartoon by Chris Muir.