Sadly, No!

Brian Cherry (yes, that guy,) writes about Alan Colmes, hamsters, and Americans:

Anybody who does not support the war on terror and in Iraq simply does not understand the circumstances.

There’s an awful lot of hamsters around:

In view of the developments since we first sent our troops to Iraq, do you think the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, or not?

Made a mistake: 59%

Oops.

The liberal media gets to take advantage of the fact that we have a President who will not endanger national security by divulging the success we have had in the war on terror. There is no doubt that many attacks have been prevented and that intelligence attained in Iraq has prevented tragedy here in the United States.

Anything else would be… inconceivable!

Wasn?t it Jamie Gorelick of the Clinton administration who prevented the CIA from tipping the FBI about Mohammed Atta long before the towers came down?

Brian, you’re not even trying to make sense anymore, are you?

[sound of body hitting floor]

Sorry I’ve been scarce lately. Brad probably has a good excuse, but I’ve been poking around the foodblog circuit.

Anthony Georgeff’s in-progress cassoulet

Did this thing last night with okra pods in a pakora-wakame batter. 1 cup chickpea flour, 1 tsp baking powder, 3 tbsp powdered wakame (whizzed in a miniature kitchen whizzer like you grind coffee in), some quantity of water until the batter is good for dredging. Coat a pound of okra pods, fry in a light, high-temperature oil, strew with sea salt.

Yes, but you wouldn’t be all yawning if you had some, because it was really good.

Check out this thread at eGullet on The Wackiest Food [That People] Have Ever Eaten.

Good place to start the bidding, yes?

Not to get into that confessional mode that I sometimes get into, but I’d actually wondered about scorpions, because in South America, there are tribes who cook tarantulas, and they’re supposed to taste a lot like crab. And of course scorpions are distributed worldwide, with some species definitely in the size-range where they’d be worth eating. But you wonder: the venom? It turns out that the venom is produced in the tip of the tail, in the bulge before the sting, leaving the rest of the scorpion totally edible.

Also, these guys are constantly one step ahead. P. Zizzy at Pharyngula has been squidding up the joint lately with a bunch of great posts on Architeuthis and Humboldt squid, etc.; and I’m saying right now that if I had my old blog up, I could link to some squiddy squidness that would overwhelmingly squid the frickin’ squid around here. We’re talking Vampyroteuthis infernalis and beyond, me hearties. That species totally illustrates the famous epigram, by somebody, of a cephalopod looking like ‘a bagpipe with the eyes of a bored Shakespearean actor.’

They’re all so fascinating and delicious-looking!

Add a pic of some kind of thing with skinheads with bad teeth in Saabs, and I become superfluous as a person.

[Am actually hella busy myself, real-lifewise. Bizy backson. ]

Um, Er:

Don’t quote what I write, quote what I mean!

Sorry for the lack of posts recently. I’ll be back tomorrow. In the meantime, all I gotta say is…

YES!!!!

February 25, 2004:

He was confirming a report in the Baghdad daily newspaper that a Zarqawi deputy it named as Nidal Arabiyat Agha Hamza was killed in an operation conducted last Thursday north of Baghdad.

January 8, 2005:

U.S. occupation forces announced the arrest of a key leader in al-Zarqawi?s network in Iraq.

January 29, 2005:

Authorities in Iraq have arrested three close associates of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, officials said Friday, claiming to be close to capturing the Al Qaeda-linked terror mastermind himself[.] […] Friday’s announcement brings to six the number of purported al-Zarqawi lieutenants arrested recently ? including a deputy[.]

June 4, 2005:

Six suspected terrorists, including a suspected deputy of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi linked to al-Quida, have been captured in Iraq, officials said Saturday.

June 27, 2005:

A senior member of Iraq?s Al Qaeda branch was killed recently in a US crackdown on insurgents in the Iraqi town of Qaim near the Syrian border, a Jordanian newspaper reported yesterday. […] Abu Alghadiya, a Syrian dentist married to a Jordanian woman, was described by Arab media as the ?number two? in Iraq?s Al Qaeda network and tipped to succeed its leader Abu Musab Al Zarqawi. [Emphasis added.]

September 27, 2005:

U.S. Special Forces killed Al Qaeda’s No. 2 terror mastermind in Iraq, Defense Department officials said.

And they say Europe is always behind the times…

Amazon.com:

Amazon.co.uk:

Bitches!

Welp, they arrested Cindy Sheehan.

Despite the full-bore, double-barreled suxxor of A.N.S.W.E.R., America’s very own cadre of Stalinist strivers and Machiavellian demonstration-taker-overers, who lo-jacked C-Span coverage of the demonstration with a million ‘Free Mumia; beepa-Nica-daqua’ speakers (and we like Nicaragua and want that it should viva in independent glory; we just hate the tirelessly narcissistic PC protest hacks who always get up on stages and pronounce it like that), it looks as though we’ve got a media cause c?l?bre.

Sheehan & co. wanted to be arrested, and they shockingly blocked a sidewalk. May we just say: Go, Cindy! (And Go! the 100,000+ from last weekend.) And please pass the popcorn, yo, because this is going to look quite good on the old TV.

Last year, we wrote about an eBay user who had a habit of leaving interesting feedback:

Sadly, he doesn’t leave interesting feedback anymore:

Fortunately, thanks to reader dbeach, we have an Amazon reviewer who is just as interesting:

HOOAH! Energy Bar, Apple Cinnamon, 15 Pack
Price: $20.99

HOOAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!, September 20, 2005
Just ate one of these mean mothers and word of God can’t stop typing or doing anything it’s worse than when I thought my youngest kid’s Adderol was the Advil took three of those couldn’t stop talking called everyone did you just hear that pigeon across the street cause I sure did oh crap oh crap oh crap oh crap I think I’m starting to crash and now sleepy gonna go sle

Fortunately, plenty more where those came from:

Celestron Dissecting Microscope

25 things I looked at underneath the microscope last night:

1. Flake of my scalp
2. Drop of blood
3. Stomach lint
4. Grain of salt
5. Grain of sugar
6. Dollop of ketchup
7. Salt w/kethcup
8. Mustard
9. Ranch
10-17. Most of the condiments on the second level of the fridge. […]

Things I didn’t look at underneath the microscope last night:

1. My crushing loneliness.

A SadNo Select column:

Daniel Schorr and the Depends Media: Once More Into the (Judith Miller) Breech