she was a no wave singer for a country act
working out of region ten


Elyce Abrams, Lapse, 2007

* Top ten conservative idiots. excerpt:

9. Daniel Pipes

"For the longest time, Republicans had a winning electoral strategy: simply tell everyone that a vote for the Democrats means that the terrorists will attack America. Unfortunately that strategy doesn't seem to be working any more. Despite the Republicans' best efforts, the voting public steadfastly refused to crap their pants in 2006 and booted the GOP out of the House and Senate.

"So what's next? They've got no ideas, they have a terrible record of failure, and their last best electoral strategy is a dud. Where do Republicans go from here?

"'Neo-con Daniel Pipes might have the answer. While discussing the possibility of an attack on Iran during an interview with National Review Online last week, he said:

What I suspect will be the case is, should the Democratic nominee win in November, President Bush will do something. And should it be Mr. McCain that wins, he'll punt, and let McCain decide what to do.'

"Or in other words, if you vote for Barack Obama this fall, hair-trigger George will lose his shit and start World War III.

"I'm not sure if that's exactly a winning message for the McSame campaign, but it might be all they have left."

* Nice photograph of Kurt Vonnegut sitting in a garden.

* An oral history of the Internet.

* "It ain't the heat; it's the humility." -- Yogi Berra