Sadly, No!

Thank you to everyone who sent in an entry! Your work on this project has been absolutely brilliant, and I can’t wait to see who wins!!! I couldn’t bring myself to cut any of the entries here, so I’m going to be posting all of them!!!!! Please vote for your three favorites in the comments so I can whittle the list down to five finalists!!!!!! VOTING WILL CLOSE SUNDAY NIGHT AFTER BATTLESTAR GALACTICA!!!!!!!!! I AM SO EXCITED THAT I WILL SOON BREAK MY EXCLAMATION POINT KEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(P.S.- Because there were so many entries, I forget who sent me what. Please claim your entry in teh comments. Also, please vote for your entries by their numbers.)

UPDATE: Because I suck, I somehow missed this one. Call it Entry #25, please:

UPDATE II: The Left left this in the comments and never e-mailed it to me as instructed, but it’s too good to not post. Entry #26:

Entry #1:

Entry #2:

(Note: You just had to mix Reynolds with the Jamil mosque, didn’t you? Why didn’t you just add in a giant sandwich to make my torment complete?)

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Uhh, is Dan nostalgic? Bitter? Did he watch too many times and take too seriously that Van Halen video?

Wha?:

Marcia Amsterdam: Teacher Of The Day

It’s sure starting to look that way, given the arrest of Emily Streb yesterday.

Marcia Amsterdam, 30, has been charged with raping a 13 year-old male student in her Brooklyn class.

Uhhh..:

Emily Streb Special Educator Extraordinaire

That’s the word, though I’d let this one play out, owing to any possible issues with the 16 yr-old special education student.

However it does look like the police did their homework … along with everyone else in this case.

She’s a music teacher … let me guess, not a soloist – organ? or skin flute?

Ooookaay:

Let’s See …

Metal Shop, Wood Shop, Auto Shop, Print Shop or Meat Shop … take your pick. Things sure have changed. Sixth grade? We didn’t get to take a shop until 7th grade when I was in school.

Indianapolis – For months it’s been a well-kept secret. But now Warren Township Schools confirm a disturbing case of sex in the classroom. The illicit activity has parents concerned and a district at a loss for words.
[…]

We link, snicker, and blockquote; you decide.

Slate‘s Dana Stevens says 300 is a cornball piece of propagandic shit.

This is enough to drive Ace and Dean Barnett to new levels of outrage on behalf of aesthetic Stalinism. By God, they’re really gonna line up now to trade in their Cheetos for popcorn and milkduds at the local Cineplex.

First Ace:

Awesome: Amateur Leftist Webzine Slate’s Politically-Corrupted And Pussified Reviewer Hates “300” With A Passion Usually Reserved For Bush

Then a thousand words of blah blah blah, ‘how dare you slag a potentially sweet piece of war porn’ kinda shit.

Then there’s Dean, who had my sympathy when he said movies based on comic books generally blow, but then lost it when he reacted to Stevens’s review like so:

I guess we now have to see “300.� VDH says it’s really good, and it seems like all the right people might wind up hating it.

VDH. The war-bloggers’ ersatz and totally pig-ignorant classicism is his legacy. But really, by Stevens’s review it sounds like 300 is one long soft-core gay/hard-core war flick. Which is fine if it’s art, but these guys hate teh gay no matter what.

For a long time now, whenever I’d read something by VDH I’d immediately think of that line from Airplane: “So, Billy, do you like to watch Gladiator movies?” I’m sorry, but the ironies to me are hilarious. The Spartan Buddy System. The Theban Sacred Band. Gay as Christmas! Seems like, if I remember Suetonius right, all but two of the first Twelve Caesars these fuckwits would like GW Bush to more emulate were bi. Then I think more about it, and the ironies start to iron themselves out. See, for the Super Macho Men of the 82nd Chairborne, it’s not about teh gay as much as it’s about the “masculine”. What they really want to see — and of course try to live vicariously — is the butchness of it all. So long as it’s some tough guy slaughtering ‘barbarians’ for the alleged benefit of Western Civ, well… they’d rather not think of the gay part of it, but so long as it’s not in their face, it’s ok. Really, it’s a simple moral calculus for them: Appreciation of ‘righteous’ slaughter outweighs innate aversion to ‘faggotry’. Bring on the butch!

Anyway, they want their propaganda (art? fuck art!), and they’ll be god-damned if some woman calls it for what it is. Andrei, somewhere, smiles at their efforts.

Johann Hari thoroughly annihilates Mark Steyn, exposes him as a racist paranoid who hates Muslims but has a powerful penis envy of Islamist authoritarianism’s methods. He also demonstrates Steyn’s atrocious record at prognostication, which is important since the Wingnutien’s America Alone is marketed as a prediction.

What a beat-down. Read it.

I’m not as good at this as Travis, so bear with me…

Rebecca Hagelin: ‘Don’t listen to those “population bomb” hysterics, incontinent breeding is the only way we’re gonna save our civilization.’

John Hawkins: ‘Liberals are the real racists; also, they’re greedy and use so-called “science” as an instrument of fascism.’

Linda Chavez: ‘Poor Scooter Libby is just a martyr to the malice Patrick Fitzgerald feels for Dick Cheney.’

Lorie Byrd: ‘The news is a constant exhibition of liberal fantasies, which makes things difficult for people like me, based in reality.’

David Limbaugh: ‘I take the crime of perjury seriously, but there’s no way Scooter Libby lied, because everyone above him in the administration has been honest all along.’

Paul Kengor: ‘OMG it turns me on that Reagan considered waging a conventional war in Poland in the early ’80s.’

Ed Feulner: ‘Like Osama bin Laden says, no one respects a country with a weak military. So let’s increase the Defense budget lots.’

Rich Tucker: ‘Bush didn’t lie about WMD, and besides, everybody was for the Iraq War.’

Burt Prelutsky: ‘I don’t need psychanalysis to know I’m perfectly crazy, thank you very much.’

Thomas Sowell: ‘Thanks to what the liberal media and a liberal jury have done to Scooter Libby, no one decent will ever want to work in government again.’

Mona Charen: ‘Where it’s reasonable to assume Scooter Libby couldn’t perfectly remember mundane conversations with reporters, it’s not reasonable to assume that Bill Clinton couldn’t remember sex! Oh, you’ll pay for what you’ve done to Libby, liberals!’

Oliver North: ‘Ronald Reagan left Latin America in a beautiful rubble of democracy, a legacy those Leftist freaks down there have totally ruined. Go get ’em, President Bush.’

Charles Krauthammer: ‘Everybody forgets stuff, but it seems that only Bush’s people get sent to jail for it.’

Kathleen Parker: ‘MySpace and Facebook photos are being used against female law students. Boo hoo. Serves you right, exhibitionists!’

Alan Reynolds: ‘What the media may call unethical or illegal, reasonable people like me call sound business practice.’

Jonah Goldberg: ‘For living high while poor Scooter Libby rots in jail, Wilson and Plame ought to have trouble sleeping at night. But they don’t, because they’re satanic.’

John Noonan: ‘These war-sabotaging, back-stabbing lefty bloggers think they’re so smart, but they’re not: I can cite Clausewitz to prove it.’

Victor Davis Hanson: ‘Much hay has been made over Foley, Cunningham, Delay, Haggard, et al., but let me tell you about the real hypocrites: rich liberals.’

Carrie Lukas: ‘The diversity of the presidential candidates for ’08 just goes to show we don’t have to worry about societial prejudices anymore.’

Frum, Above: ‘A proper candidate should be all like, “Blow it out your ass, Bella Abzug!”‘

‘Rudy Tube’

• For those confused about the conservative bonafides of GOP ’08 candidates, I’ve got a nifty litmus test: The one who’s publicly obnoxious to a famous liberal is the right man.

‘Shorter’ concept created by Daniel Davies and perfected by Elton Beard.

Kaus, like the rest of his fellow-travelers, ain’t about to give up on Ann Coulter.

Here he wastes valuable electrons whining about Robert Wright chewing his ass, and he also tries to ‘gotcha’ Andrew Sullivan, in whose archive Kaus finds a semi-defense of the use of ‘fag’ by teenagers, thus establishing the ‘fact’ that not only is Sullivan a hypocrite, but Coulter is largely blameless. Or something.

Kaus: Handsomest man in all of Pseudoliberalism, and proud sometime-escort of Ann Coulter.

The vids in the link are hilarious — Kaus actually argues that Coulter is a ‘closet moderate’ and other shit that defies belief. On the other hand, and predictably, Wright regretably focuses on the word Coulter used instead of the sentiments behind it and the context around it, which is what makes Coulter’s use of it important and teenagers’ standard use of it not so important. Oh well.

Well, actually, I don’t. It’s kinda hard to. And that’s a problem. Yglesias:

Michael Scherer bothered to learn some facts and write the profile for Salon. He says Huckabee’s charming. His political approach:

“If I really know what it means to follow Jesus, it means no kid goes hungry tonight,” he said, at one stop in Iowa. “It means no wife gets the daylights beat out of her by some alcoholic abusive husband. It means no kid lives in a neighborhood where he is scared to death of some child predator that is going to pick him up and carry him off. It means not one single elderly person has to make the choice between food or medicine.” Unlike former Sen. Rick Santorum or Sen. Sam Brownback, Huckabee does not spend time pounding the pulpit over baby murder and sodomy. He’s a self-styled “compassionate conservative,” a poll-tested concept that worked once before. But while President Bush discarded the slogan like a prom queen’s sash, Huckabee wants to convince America that he is the real deal.

Huckabee is, obviously, a longshot. The odds favor Giuliani and McCain. Nevertheless, over the long haul I think it’s clear that the Huckabee approach — marrying religious traditionalism with some kind of revived effort to cope with domestic social policy problems — is more promising for Republicans than the tax cuts and war platform of a Giuliani.

I haven’t lived in the state for most of Huckabee’s reign, so i’m not saying I know him like most Arkansans do, but here are my impressions:

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Sadly, No! is the bombz! Ann Althouse, March 6, 2006:

This morning I see that this character, [TBOGG] apparently a somewhat popular blogger, spent the entire evening simulblogging my simulblogging.

Ann Althouse, March 7 (!), 2007:

(I am sympathetic to the woman who had someone impersonate her by name in a chat. There is a popular blog where that is done to me in the comments and openly encouraged. As I noted here, the blogger in question flatly refused to do anything about it.)

Advantage: Varnson!

I will be posting entries from the Glenn Reynolds Roboshop Contest later in the week. You guys have done some amazing work, and I can’t wait to show it off.

Also, you will soon know the awful truth about the Editors and the People’s Revolutionary Council for Centrism for Connecticut for Lieberman. As a former inner party member at PRC4C4C4L, I can tell you that this operation isn’t as benign or fluffy as he’s led you to believe.

Finally, did anyone catch Battlestar Galactica on Sunday? Holy shit.

That is all.

UPDATE: Major BSG spoilers in the comments. If you haven’t seen the ep yet, read no further.