Whew! I had a very demanding day between watching March of the Penguins and knitting. Nonetheless I managed to round up some more excellent links for your perusal.
On Abramoff
If we didn’t know who he was in 2005, we’ll sure as hell know who is in 2006.
Slate provides a list of those who will most likely face legal and/or political trouble due to Abramoff’s deal. The good thing, as Bush et al dump their dirty money, is that we can expect greater compliance to the rules of political contributions (for another two decades if we’re lucky). In the meantime, watch the watchers cover their trails.
Other Business
Sixty Percent of What You Say Is Crap: See O’Reilly fumble on David Letterman.
LETTERMAN: I’m not smart enough to debate you point to point on this, but I have the feeling that about 60 percent of what you say is crap (laughter)…
O’REILLY: 60?
LETTERMAN: 60 percent…I’m just spitballing here.
Against the NSA: James Risen appeared on NBC’s Today Show yesterday to discuss revelations from his new book, “State of War.”
The Most Recent Alito Paradox: Though the ABA rating is something Bush pooh-poohed several years ago, it’s a-okay for our friend Alito. More on Alito at “Will Americans be able to figure out what Samuel Alito meant when he said that ‘the Constitution does not protect a right to an abortion’?”
David Brooks Rediscovers Women … Again: But I wish he’d forget about us altogether.
Kill Me: Why I’m desperately avoiding an office job.
Mining Tragedy: John Cole is only a few miles from the site, and he writes about some of the insider stuff here, plus updates.
Books, Their Covers and The Consequences: Taking off in part from our wee war today, Lucky White Girl talks about her appearance and its relation to her feminism in different contexts. See also: Amanda’s Do Not Stare at the Blogger, especially the comments.
Battle of the Time Machines: Have anti-feminist arguments changed in forty years? Negative.
Mooning Ruled Disgusting But Not Illegal: This would have been a far better help to me about ten years ago when I was arrested on a city bus for mooning the bus driver, but for the record, I absolutely did not moon the bus driver. So there.
Welcome to 2006: 100 things we didn’t know this time last year.
Laugh Du Jour: Thanks to another “nice guy” thread at Pandagon, we were graced with this lovely piece of poetry by c-minus.
THE ZEROTH COMING
Tossing and turning in an empty boudoir
The nice guy cannot score a dinner date
Relationships fall apart, vaginas do not hold
Mere release is loosed upon the kleenex
The ceremony of adolescence is renewed
The pretty lack all sanity, while the available
Do not look like underwear models
In apartments and dorms across the land
All coming done is coming is by hand
Oh, I’m coming! Hardly is the semen out
When a nude image of Cameron Diaz
Dazzles my sight: somewhere on sands of a beach
A shape with taut body and a head of peroxide
A gaze blank and empty of self
Is stretching its lean thighs, while all about her
Victoria’s Secret models wait their turn
Reality takes hold again, but now I know
That twenty year old Pilates trainers
Would date me were they not so crazed,
And what hot babe, her mind come round at last
Awaits in Nantucket to blow me?
All apologies to W.B. Yeats, Cameron Diaz (picked only for the meter, honest!) and to anyone who read this.
I bet on Nantucket in less than 20 posts and, though it may have been a cheap shot and I was the only better, holy shit, I win.
Finally, go wish one of my favorite bloggers a happy birthday.