Rough Ol' Boy

In 1983, shortly before winning his third term as governor of Louisiana Edwin Edwards told reporters “[t]he only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with a dead girl or a live boy.” Well, Mark Foley, a Republican Congressman from Florida, is learning just how true that statement is. Foley [...]

A couple of my friends saw Borat giving a press conference in front of the Kazakh embassy in D.C. and took these videos (here and here) of it.  In case you missed it, the Kazakh goverment threatened to sue Ali G (a.k.a. Sacha Cohen), to which Cohen as Borat responded thusly. Now, the president of [...]

As if I didn’t have enough problems sleeping, now I have to live with this knowledge. Link from the Agitator.

I really try not to link to any blog twice in such a short amount of time, but this attack ad that I found at Hit and Run is just too good to pass up.  Sample line: “Brad Miller spent your money to study the masturbation habits of old men.”  Yeah, it goes there.  I [...]

Here’s a shocker: after banning all smoking in public buildings and within 25 feet of their entrances, bar business in Washington state is way down. There are a couple of powerful Democratic state legislators who want to go back and amend the law, even if only to get rid of the 25 foot outdoor ban, [...]

Take the test here and find out.  You are also encouraged to relate your level of damnation in the comments.  I, by the way, will be in the seventh level, but I almost managed to make it into two. Quiz via The Corner.

Yeah, you think about it. From Marginal Revolution.

Much has been said in the last week or so about Bush’s bounce in approval ratings back up to 44 or 45% depending on who you ask.  I’m not so interested here what this says about the Democrats’ prospects of taking back the house, how much political capital this gives Bush, or anything of the [...]

According to a new Pentagon report, support for the insurgency in Iraq among Sunnis is at an all time high with 75% of that population backing attacks on American troops.  That same figure stood at only 14% when the insurgency first started back in 2003. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: when [...]

Here is a highly recommended article by Reason’s Jesse Walker describing how nonviolent protest is often superior to violence at taking down tyrannical regimes.  Mostly, the article is a review of Nonviolent Struggle: 50 Crucial Points written by Srdja Popovic, Andrej Milivojevic, and Slobodan Djinovic, who were all leaders of Otpor (“Resistance”), the Serbian dissident [...]