Thsnrksdy

Surprise!

RNC HIRING ROVE PROTEGE, US ATTORNEY PURGE FIGURE AS OBAMA OPPO RESEARCHER

Why do all Republican pigs look like Joe Lieberman?

   *

• Stupidest, most inane, most insulting column of the day!
• The necessity of an irrational enemy.
• Much linked to, still worth reading: The Stupidity of Dignity.
• Another reason United's stadium will be in Maryland.
• On cults and cult bands. (h/t Fellowjeff. We disagree about GbV and Kate Bush (via Tori Amos, who's a fraud and a thief and has not heard a Kate Bush riff, chord, lyric, or pose she hasn't ripped off).
  
• Lotsa links, book-wise.
• Even more lotsa links, book-wise.
• What, more links, book-wise?
• So, um, who killed the book critic? No, I'm really too modest to accept credit.
• I, for one, will miss Blackwater on the Eastern Shore, but Norfolk? Riddance!
• Here's your high quality snark.

   *

The Beard! Starring Clorg Dead-Enders!

Or is it: Clorg Dead-Enders! Starring The Beard!