Darleen has some great thoughts that started as a riff on my last rape post, and took on a life of their own.

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. . . has its winners up!

Hint: the grand prize winner is into wearing costumes on his off-hours. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

Reynolds: "It's a dishonor just to be nominated, but I certainly do feel that the competitors have given it their all."

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How funny that this resonated so loudly with me when I was 25 years old. I heard a snippet of it recently; what an excellent song.

There was a moon and a street lamp
I didnÂ’t know I drank such a lot
Â’till I pissed a tequila-anaconda
The full length of the parking lot!
Oh, I talk too loose
Again I talk too open and free
I pay a high price for my open talking
Like you do for your silent mystery

. . . . . . . .

We could talk about martha
We could talk about landscapes
IÂ’m not above gossip
But IÂ’ll sit on a secret where honor is at stake!
Or we could talk about power
About jesus and hitler and howard hughes
Or charlie chaplinÂ’s movies
Or bergmanÂ’s nordic blues
Please just talk to me
Any old theme you choose

. . . . . . . .

You could talk like a fool-IÂ’d listen
You could talk like a sage
Anyway the best of my mind
All goes down on the strings and the page
That mind picks up all these pictures
It still gets my feet up to dance
Even though itÂ’s covered with keyloids
From the slings and arrows of outrageous romance
I stole that from willy the shake!
You know--neither a borrower nor a lender be

. . . . . . . .

Is your silence that golden?
Are you comfortable in it?
Is it the key to your freedom
Or is it the bars on your prison?
Are you gagged by your ribbons?
Are you really exclusive or just miserly?
You spend every sentence as if it was marked currency!
Come and spend some on me--
Shut me up and talk to me!
IÂ’m always talking!
Chicken squawking!
Please talk to me

And now it's possible for me to have compassion for the person I was back then. Which is pretty cool, if you want to know the truth. I no longer want to travel back in time and give that girl—ahem—a good talking-to.

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World War II is over, and has been for . . . weeks. Let's get away from the whole idea of thought crimes, shall we?

When someone denies the Holocaust, the correct response is to double up in laughter.

If they incite violence, go ahead and throw the book at 'em.

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Harrell's got an article up at Wizbang! about it.

(No. I don't mean al Qaeda. I mean moving.)

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One of these stories is clearly important. The other one involves the public's right to know. Once again, I feel like I've stepped through the looking glass.

Captain Ed:

David Gregory, whose network has not even allowed a pixilated version of the Prophet cartoons to appear lest they incur the wrath of Muslim terrorists, accused the White House of censorship and coverups in supposedly hiding the shooting from the nation.

Jacoby has this correct. The media attacks those who they know will not spend much energy fighting back. Gregory could act like a rude, spoiled child denied his choice of birthday gift because he knew the White House would not dare to even expel him from the room. However, their supposed calling to keep the people informed suddenly takes a powder when the remote threat of violence appears. This only acts to encourage such threats in the future, as the nutcases take a lesson from the pusillanimity of the mainstream American media, especially in contrast with their European counterparts that have taken a stand against extortion and published the cartoons in defense of the Danish press.

When our media has the testicular fortitude to report on terrorists honestly, then they will have gained the moral authority to lecture any White House on censorship and the responsibility of fully informing the public. Until then, such demonstrations as we saw this week by the White House press corps only stands as a perverse monument to the media's hypocrisy and venality.

Via Glenn.

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. . . are just adorable when they're incensed by strong women? They jump up and down and stuff. Cute as a little button.

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. . . is just around the corner. Really.

This coming apocalypse will feature Shiite Iraqis working with Shiite Iranians against Iraqi Sunnis—because Arabs and Persians work very well together. Unlike, say, secular dictators who hate the U.S. and religious fanatics who hate the U.S.

Just click your heels together and repeat "there's no place like home."

Via Dave Price, writing over at Esmay's site.

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. . . will mark my third anniversary as a blogger. Since I never got around to moving my archives over from the old site, I'll have to celebrate by seeing to that next month.

I'm also thinking of re-running some of my old posts from the run-up to our invasion of Iraq. This is my first entry ever:

I wish people would do their homework. I wish half of those who think they oppose our impending invasion of Iraq would do basic things--like researching international law (if not "just war" theory), Saddam's atrocities, and the opinions of the Iraqis themselves, who simply want to be free. The protesters here in the U.S. rail against a government that is trying to make it possible for Iraqis to protest *their* government. As opposed to the current situation, in which Iraqis of any stripe can be imprisoned and tortured for breathing a critical word.

All the "arguments" I hear against the war so far--with the possible exception of one--have been patent nonsense. None have been based in fact. Unless you count the made-up "fact" that invading Iraq will somehow line the pockets of those in the administration who have ties to the Evil Oil Companies. The only pockets likely to get lined are those of the French and Russian companies who have contracts with Iraq and are scared that a regime change will be bad for business. (And then there are the French and Russian suppliers of material--and the French outright building Saddam a nuclear reactor.)

It's crazy. Children all over California today left their classes to demonstrate for torture. And they don't even know it. That's the amazing thing.

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I know a few, but they are so difficult to find that I'm thinking of creating a separate blogroll for them. I'm not interested in snarky remarks about how the only correct positions are center-right: I'm interested in where you see the most provocative, even seductive arguments from your left-leaning friends or adversaries. What makes you think?

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Commenting here on this post by Joe Malchow: "It really is like dealing with teenagers. Except, you know, for the murder part."

Yup.

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. . . intend to outlaw tragedy.

Next to go: human nature.

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suggests that we boycott Muslim products, and then remembers: "oh, wait — there aren't any." Ouch.

Much merriment ensues in his comments.

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It was like a train wreck on paper. I read every disgusting word.

Via Ace.

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1 Well, the good news is that he is going to get the same deal once he's in the slammer. Bruno will see to it. No contract necessary.

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3 I dunno...if she saw this before they got married, what made her think he'd actually change? and what made her think that marrying this guy was a good idea?

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4 The charge is kidnapping. Presumably the premise was that the entire "marriage" is something that occurred while the woman was under his control. We don't know the details, but we can see his intentions, which amount to owning a human being.

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5 Do we still have insane asylums? and why wasn't this turkey in one?

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6 I'm getting the impression people think this is more unusual than it actually is.

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7 Well, it's a bit out of the ordinary to actually document it this way.

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8 And to kidnap. But I also think both of those are more common than most people seem to realize. Don't understand why someone would marry this kind of control freak to begin with? Fundamentalists of most any religion advocate husbands controlling wives as part of a *godly* way to live. Islamofascists aren't the only ones. All sorts of American Christian groups say the same thing. And hold this up as *family values*, and a Good Thing that should be pushed even more than it is. Behavior like this man's is the predictable conclusion. He's just more extreme - and accidentally became more public about it - than we're usually privy to.

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9 Most married men are just giddy with the possibility of getting lucky sometime around New Year's eve.

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. . . is not a hospitable environment for peaches. I wonder if that dildo ban for the hoi polloi includes vibrators electric massagers for sore muscles.

Via Insty.

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if you can't figure out where they're getting into the house—and you don't want to overuse the ant spray—there is this desperation measure you can take: find a spot right on or by the ant superhighway, and place a drop of honey there. Wait half an hour, and soon the part of the line that had been diffuse will be well-defined with busy, productive little ant bodies. Find the entry point, spray that with ant spray (or block it off with powder, or sewing machine oil) and then wipe the rest of the critters up in a grand moment of speciesist bigotry.

But be sure to mop up that little honey drip very thoroughly, or you'll have company again, and soon.

For more household hints, PayPal me $50 tonight and I'll think of others so fast it'll make your head spin. Don't doubt me on this.

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perform a nice little tag-team takedown of the Legacy Media and its rather hysterical pursuit of the Vice President over that hunting accident, have at it.

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Don't dick around with Oprah, either.

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Labeled, quite accurately, an "addicting" game. Don't forget to lead with those birds.

Via The American Mind.

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The artwork profiled here (1) doesn't involved Mohammed at all, and (2) clearly targets those who murder in the name of Islam, rather than the majority, who practice it peacefully.

Also, it's hilarious.

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