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What will Peggy Noonan pretend the Pope said this time?!? The Passion web site tells all:

Mel Gibson’s hand is the one that puts the nail in Jesus’ hand – symbolic of the fact that he holds himself accountable first and foremost for Christ’s death. [Emphasis added]

Over at Koufax Award Nominee alicublog, Roy Edroso makes this proposal:

Then let’s all go out and smash the windows of joints serving Foster’s Lager, and make the Aussies wear kangaroo armbands.

All those in favor favour…

We noticed that S,N!E’s* bestest friend World O’Crap now has a trackback feature. Let’s see if it works!

While we’re happy to see that it does, we must inform you that she now hates Martha Stewart and Meghan Cox Gurdon. Cruel, cruel world!

* Sadly, No! Enterprises

Today’s Wall Street Journal editorial by Jack “Neutron” Welch contains an unfortunate admission. [No, not his comical assertion that Joe Lieberman is a Democratic candidate worth discussing while John Edwards isn’t.] Rather, we draw your attention to this:

Once again, I’m not campaigning for or against anyone with this article. Even though I admire the Democrats for their compassionate social agenda, I can’t stand their economic platform. It sucks incentive out of the system and could slow the economy and kill the job creation we’re on our way to seeing. [Emphasis added]

On our way to seeing?!? And here we thought job creation had already arrived, what, with all those tax cuts and stuff.

[And yes, while Jack is not campaigning for or against anyone with his article, all the Democrats’ plans suck total ass. So perhaps Jack too is suffering from the Besides That? syndrome: Besides the fact that their economic plans would plunge the country in a depression, some of the Democratic candidates are kind of ok.]

Apparently (and sadly,) no! Jonah Goldberg “praises” Dr. Judy Dean:

I’ve got to say that Mrs. Dean comes across as a perfectly nice woman who doesn’t care about politics. […] In a way, the biggest loser in this interview is Hillary because it underlines how fraudulent she really was.

In a way, the biggest loser in this post is the pro-life lobby, because it underlines how not all pregnancies who are carried to term produce unplanned joy.

TBOGG ends another great day’s work by taking a look at Rachel MacNair‘s contribution to National Review. MacNair lists for our convenience the many real imaginary evils of abortion:

MacNair, who is a psychologist much like Charles Krauthammer, also lies, much like Charles Krauthammer

But when Tom writes that MacNair is a former president of Feminists for Life, he neglects to mention that K-Lo has called the organization “smart and sassy.”

We especially liked this part of MacNair’s argument about why abortions aren’t good and stuff because:

There has been an upsurge rather than a decrease in child abuse.

We’ve used this Monty Python quote before but it’s worth repeating: Explain the logic underlying that assumption. Assuming we missed the argument about how children born to parents that do not want them are condemned to be abused (and that legalizing abortion would hence lead to a lower incidence of child abuse than not,) why should women/parents who don’t have abortions be influenced? What is the causal link that allows us to see any relationship between those women who have abortions in greater numbers than in the past, and parents who don’t who then abuse their children? Does this have anything to do with Meghan Cox Gurdon? Your answers will be graded for both style and logic.

Bonus points: MacNair is now the president of Consistent Life, the group formerly known as The Seamless Garment Network. [You can’t make that shit up.]

Update: Patrick Armshaw offers some interesting thoughts on the Seamless Garment Network in the comments, and finds our mocking partly (if not entirely) undeserved.

Our friend (we think, we hope) Norbizness is running a caption contest. Please be sure to keep your entries less humorous than ours. That will be all.

General Odierno, not to be confused with the General who is still dead, offers his thoughts on the situation in Iraq:

A top American general in Iraq says the US army has brought supporters of Saddam Hussein “to their knees”.

Major General Raymond Odierno also said he thought there would be a return
to “some normalcy” within six months.

In other news:

Violence in Iraq Leaves Nine People Dead

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) – Attackers killed nine people in an outburst of
violence, including four Christian women headed to jobs at a U.S. military
base and two American soldiers. South of the capital, the security chief of
Spanish troops in Iraq was shot in the head during a raid.

Thanks to Blair for sending us the articles. His email included a very funny and witty comment we are unable to reproduce here because this is a family friendly blog.

Last November, Sadly, No!’s corporate slave World O’Crap offered her Reviews of Books We Haven’t Read. In her honor, today we bring you: Review of a book nobody has (or will) read. That’s right: we’re going to review Adam “I’m angry because my parents won’t let me date” Yoshida’s How Steven Den Beste and I conquered the world and lived to tell the tale The Northern Abyss: Canada and the Struggle for the Future.

Are you ready?

Adam’s book is a 140-page, 21-chapter tour de force, an oeuvre that is sure to be compared to this century’s greatest classics of political philosophy, if by “political philosophy” you mean “views somewhat less coherent than Lyndon Larouche’s after hiring Rush Limbaugh’s former maid.”

Adam’s greatest accomplishment in this book is his ability to predict the future:

By the time you read this book it will probably have already been derided and denounced by every socialist, every communist, every gay ?right? activist, every environmentalist lunatic, and every other assorted leftist nut who has managed to find a copy in their grubby little hands.

Let us hope the grub coming off our hands doesn’t break the keyboard before we’re finished, because we’re just getting warmed up!
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Tim Lambert reports on the latest John “Mary” Lott credibility destroying-related program activities:

The site?s maintainer, Eugene Volokh, invites visitors to tell him ?how this guide can be made more useful?. I don?t think anyone should be recommending Lott to journalists, so I wrote to Volokh suggesting that the guide could be improved by removing Lott?s name from it. And he has.

Why not take the opportunity to vote for Tim in the Koufax award for Best Single Issue Blog when you have a chance?

Andrew Sullivan points out that The New Republic, the liberal weekly magazine that endorsed Joe “Dick Cheney handed me my ass in the VP Debate” Lieberman has doubts about John Kerry’s etectability. (And it’s not only because that’s not a real word.)

In other news:

And yes boys and girls, you are invited to submit your own “doubts” in the comments.