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I'm not a huge Chris Matthews fan, but I must admit this made me chuckle.  Wingnut goes on "Hardball" without doing anything more than skimming his talking points, gets his ass handed to him:

Headline a couple of days ago in the NY Sun:

Will He Be Hanged for Helping Israel?

The story's lede, with emphasis added by me:

A Palestinian Authority police officer accused of helping Israel with counterterrorism is facing death at the hands of a firing line unless a last-minute appeal to President Bush can save him.

So, no.  Shot, maybe, but not hanged.

Now this is depressing.

Why did Laura give the press conference?  Was George taking a nap or something?

Why's it not on the White House's "news"' page?  We have W honoring Cinco de Mayo, but nothing on Myanmar aside from giving Aung San Suu Kyi a gold medal today.

And Laura slammed the Myanmar junta's failure to warn the Burmese people of the storm:

      Q Quick follow on that. Do you think that they have blood on their hands       for that lack of warning?    

      MRS. BUSH: Well, I just think it's very, very important -- that we know already that they are very inept; that they have not been able to govern in a way that lets their company -- country, for one thing, build an economy. This is a country that's rich in natural resources. Their natural resources are being depleted as they sell them off, as far as we       can tell from the outside, for the financial benefit of the regime itself and not for the good of the people.

Yep.  Very inept.  Especially when I think about her husband's lying about how "nobody anticipated" how bad Katrina would be -- after being briefed on the possible impact, about how he waited 24 hours before he cut his vacation short, and how he hobnobbed with country stars while people were drowning in an American city.

You want ineptitude?  You want to call the Myanmar regime inept?  We'll show you inept.

Bring it on.

Today is Law Day, when we honor the rule of law and the fundamental role it plays in preserving liberty in our nation and in all free societies.

Some good ideas:

• an MP3 player shaped like a cassette tape -- with a magnetic head so you can play it in a cassette deck;
• the BBC Radiophonic Workshop, which created all sorts of nifty and innovative sound effects, but didn't live to see its fiftieth birthday;
• a description (with nice photos) of a dinner at El Bulli, the temple of molecular gastronomy;

and one shockingly bad one:  running for Congress (even though there's a picture of the Supreme Court building on your campaign website), meeting with Nazis and speaking at a birthday dinner for Hitler, and then saying you don't know enough about the tenets of National Socialism (say what you will, Dude, at least it's an ethos) to decide whether you favor or oppose it.

Illinois Nazis.  I hate Illinois Nazis.

I know I've highlighted some great newspaper corrections in this space, but I may have to retire the category after this one:

CORRECTION: This submission misstates that one Dalai Lama admitted to having sex with hundreds of men and women while knowing that he had AIDS. Additionally, the submission misstates that many monks participated in the dismemberment of female bodies. In fact, there is no factual evidence to substantiate either of these claims. Spectator regrets the error.

Incidentally, after receiving what I can only estimate to be huge amounts of crap for this article (which would seem to be entirely deserved), the Spectator pulled the entire article from their site, which is why the above link goes to a Google cache of the original.

killbots_want_peace, originally uploaded by darkpony.

From my friend darkpony, who kicks major ass.

(Look familiar? He also did this rendition of the New Yorker's Eustace Tilley character a while back.)

Some linky goodness for your Monday-morning perusal:

• amazing article on the secret life of elevators...and just how hellish it'd be to stuck in one for a long time (Milgram would be proud);
• if Charlie Gibson and George Stephanopoulos had moderated the Lincoln/Douglas debates;
• Amy Langfield at NewYorkology points out just what a wonderfully serendipitous city New York is; and
• "Describe Marsellus Wallace to me, pray."

Because it is awesome: Numbers Station Bingo. 

More on Joe Lieberman, Democrat Independent egotist from Connecticut:  he wants to keynote the Republican Convention, and says Rush Limbaugh has a big heart.  (Cue flashback tape of the greatest hits of hateful Limbaugh screeds in your head -- I know I don't need to go digging for links for this one.)

I know the real reason he's still putatively caucusing with the Democrats -- he wants his precious committee assignments, which are seniority-based -- but I wonder how he justifies this kind of alignment in public?  How can he agree to caucus with Democrats and enjoy their privileges (such as they are) when he devotes his energies to tearing down the party and its candidates?  Why doesn't he break for the GOP, which he clearly prefers?  Where's his sense of self-respect?