some funky dixieland

Blackwater
Related: Maher Blasts Regent Law School’s Transformation of the DoJ
-But hey, at least they’re not beheading people, or acting like pirates… /snark
Update:

What Diva Jood said.

Last fair deal in the town.

Imagine my surprise last night as the wife and I stumbled into Dinosaur Bar-B-Que and into the middle of an amazing set by Dark Hollow.

Stations of the Cross

I can’t count how many times I’ve been accused of heresy, Satanism, you name it.  So, in the spirit of our friends that have gone, so it goes, I will write in the frame of Thompson and Vonnegut.
The smell is what first hits you.  Then the cold.  Marble doesn’t hold heat very well in a [...]

Seasonal Weather

The tagline says, “I’m not liberal, I’m paying attention.” Not the most original, but it been up there so long, if I took it down you’d see how badly this place is nicotine stained. Yet it is as true today as when I started this blog over a year and a half ago. I [...]

So it goes

“The language he used was that of a man who was sick and tired of the world he lived in — though he had much liking for his fellow man — and had resolved, for his part, to have no truck with injustice and compromise with the truth.” - Albert Camus
Update:

Walking papers, please.

Via Atrios’s Eschaton:
Call to Service

As far as I can remember, there hasn’t been a single plea for people to enlist in the armed services from a prominent figure since this began. It isn’t simply that Operation Yellow Elephant was a failure, it’s that they didn’t try. We’re paying record amounts in retention bonuses [...]

Listen up.

Poll: Lawmakers approval ratings rise
40 percent approval rating tops that of President Bush
The Associated Press
Updated: 11:59 p.m. ET April 9, 2007

WASHINGTON - Public approval for Congress is at its highest level in a year as Democrats mark 100 days in power and step up their confrontation with President Bush over his handling of the Iraq [...]

Veddy Intrestinc

April MyDD Straw Poll.

In the tall grass.

Mon Apr 9, 10:37 AM ET
First lady Laura Bush, flanked by Easter bunnies makes remarks during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, Monday, April 9, 2007, at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Picture the press missed:

Sun Apr 9, 08:49 AM ET
Above: Karl Rove deletes e-mails off his blackberry checks messages from the [...]

“l’art pour l’art”

Fond memories of summer 04′. Just got out of the Army, no shirt, no shoes, Labatt Blue in hand. Still had a decent amount of hair on my head. In fact that was the longest my hair’s ever been since 1997. This is my self portrait.