Dear Mr. Commissioner: You think the show in The Palace the other night was something? No, not by a long shot. That it happened is not a suprise. That it took this long to happen – that is the surprise. I mean, let’s be honest – your league has a serious punk problem on the floor, and liquoring up the

sirpaulsbuddy has a nice analysis of the battle for the soul of Christianity: “…conservative evangelicals like the Southern Baptists and conservative sacramentalists like the diocese of western NC haven’t been this united since that aforementioned endorsement of slavery….” Gotta read this one, folks….

Uh-huh. What did I tell you. Let’s see how this turns out.

Excerpted from The Prince, by Niccolo Machiavelli: XVIII …men are so simple, and so subject to present necessities, that he who seeks to deceive will always find someone who will allow himself to be deceived. One recent example I cannot pass over in silence. Alexander VI did nothing else but deceive men, nor ever thought of doing otherwise, and he

“Very good,” Bono says, “is the enemy of great. You think great is right next door. It’s not. It’s in another country.” This is a fantastic read. I hear great things about the new record, but a couple people I have heard say it’s not all it’s hyped to be. We’ll see – on Tuesday, when it’s released, we’ll see.

Anybody seen this yet – it’s feckin’ amazing.

Powell: Intelligence suggests Iran trying to adapt missiles for nukes I can easily believe that Iran is guilty of this and a lot more. But when I saw the headline, something in me reflexively hedged – can we believe anything Colin says at this point? Once upon a time he was walking, talking, credibility personified. Then he whored his integrity

Hey everybody, say hi to Jim Booth, aka sirpaulsbuddy. Jim used to be a BlogSpot guy, but has been persuaded that LJ is a better way of life. Drop by, say hello, friend him, invite him over for tea and cakes, whatever. He’s good people.

Right. Cleaning the insurgents out of Falluja, that was likely the easy part.

My buddy Dee Forsythe passed this one on: Questions for Rice Check this graf: “If Rice can persuade Bush to forsake the influence of Cheney and Rumsfeld for an approach in the internationalist spirit of her predecessor Colin Powell, she may be a fine secretary of state.” Hell, if she can do THAT, with another sweep of her magic wand

Oddly, the new Bugger Me Elmo® doll didn’t make the list….

It hit me this morning: why are the families of America’s unborn children being forced to pay over $9 billion dollars in extra taxes each year? We can expect a full-court press in the next four years to get rid of Roe v. Wade. Part and parcel of the agenda involves neat things like the Laci Peterson Law, which extends

This guy has 17 more where this came from, and some of them are pretty darned scary. Thanks to fikshun for the tip…

Uh-oh. Nothing good’s gonna come of this…..

Two wrongs don’t make a right, but do two losers make a winner? We’ll find out – right now about the only thing either company has that anybody wants is The Great Indoors. And batteries and tools.