The Smug Baldy Speaks

Occasionally I give Joe Scarborough a hard time, most probably because he supported George Bush so strongly in the past. Now, however, I have to give Joe some credit for coming to the realization that many of us have already had: George Bush is a scary commander in chief.
Joe appears to be […]

According to a recent documentary, French soldiers in Afghanistan could have killed al Quaeda leader Osama bin Laden on two different occasions, and they would have done so, except that the order to open fire was not given by American military commanders.
The filmed report, by journalists Eric de Lavarene and Emmanuel Razavi, asserts that the […]

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Les found a nice alternative to the standard holiday fare like Santa in a sleigh, inflatable snowglobe dioramas, glassy-eyed elves carrying candy canes, and bedouins loitering in a barn:
So your neighbor has his lawn decked out with all manner of traditional Christmas decorations including one of those obnoxious blow formed plastic light […]

The Independent Online Edition is reporting today that Carne Ross, a top level British diplomat, knew that Tony Blair lied over Saddam Hussein’s WMDs, but his report was suppressed, and Ross was silenced with threats that the report violated Britain’s Official Secrets Act.
In the testimony revealed today Mr Ross, 40, who helped negotiate several UN […]

This just made me laugh. Hope you enjoy.

Yes, the First Amendment thanks you!

The associated press reported this morning that a mother in Columbia S.C. had her 12-year-old son arrested for playing with his Christmas present early.
The mother called police Sunday after learning her son had disobeyed orders and repeatedly taken a Game Boy from its hiding place at his great-grandmother’s house next door and played it. […]

The folks over at the Guardian Unlimited have an interesting report about the world’s first creationist museum, which is scheduled to open soon:
The Creation Museum - motto: “Prepare to Believe!” - will be the first institution in the world whose contents, with the exception of a few turtles swimming in an artificial pond, are entirely […]

On the onegoodmove blog, John Safran demonstrates that turnabout is fair play as he proselytizes atheism to Mormons. Very funny!

After posting about reparative therapy, someone commented on SEB with this little ditty that probably isn’t going to play well in the Haggard household. I feel badly for them, though Ted should probably have expected songs to be sung
-Thanks to NotBrightEnough