On State Slogans: Ranked And Saluted
"Montana—"The Last Best Place" -- This would be the REAL Replacements reference, inasmuch as that band was marketed as (and I realize I'm dating myself here) "The Last, Best Band of the '80s."
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On Things You May Not Know About Pinball
I haven't tried it in a few years and don't know if it has been maintained, but Pinmame used to offer free download of a pinball simulator for PC, as well as links to sites from which you could download free simulations of hundreds of pinball games, including Addams Family (at the time the best-selling pinball game in history) and Xenon (the first digital pinball game). Anyone feeling adventurous, and needing a timesuck, is welcomem to check it out.
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On John Paul II One Stunt Away From Sainthood
Yeah, a guy who ran a decades-long continuing criminal enterprise, covering up for child molesters in multiple countries, is a saint. Good luck selling that, Pope Rat, but I ain't buying.
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On When They Say "Everyone" Must Sacrifice, They Mean Poor People
"Tort reform" is going to save money? Oh, please. The cost of all malpractice litigation judgments/settlements/etc. as a percentage of total U.S. health care costs works out to the equivalent of about a nickel on a $24 lunch tab. These people are not serious.
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On Beware of Sandra Day O'Connor's Mexican Army!
[[They say that because O'Connor recently was on the Ninth Circuit panel that upheld Arizona's proof-of-identity-while-voting law ...]]
Well, there you go. She wasn't recently on the 9th Circuit. She wasn't EVER on the 9th Circuit. She was appointed to the Supreme Court from the Arizona Court of Appeals, without ever having served as a judge anywhere at the federal level, although she served at various times in all three branches of Arizona state government.
Morans.
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On Senate Candidate Learns Important Lesson About Constitution
This Kitten Knows More About the Constitution Than Christine O'Donnell.
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On The Ad Spending Comeback
A better comparison might be an inflation-adjusted comparison with the most recent mid-term, '06.
That said, I think -- just a hypothesis -- it's entirely possible that some media have been reluctant to report on the possible down side of all this masked corporated-funded advertising because they're benefiting financially from it.
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On Blogger Arrested at Public Event by Senate Candidate Joe Miller's Private Security
Man, there are a lot of politicians who are extremely fortunate I'm no longer an editor. Because, well, jail, bitchez. NOBODY treats my reporters like that.
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On Confederate Scumbag Ditched For Bear
Of the other two options, one was this weird white guy who looked like a refugee from a Nuremberg rally c. 1935, and the other was a land shark that looked like a T. rex (and which, now that I think about it, probably reflects alumni mentality).
I think Christina Hendricks' rear end would have been a better choice. Sadly, it was not among the finalists.
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On In Praise of SlutWalk
See, here's the thing. Rape has one essential ingredient: a rapist. Without that, you can have entire battalions of women walking down Broadway in pasties, 6-inch heels and nothing else and you will not get one single rape. Not one.
What a rape victim was wearing when she was raped is irrelevant. What matters is that a rapist was there. That's all. Nothing else.