It doesn't seem very likely, but...

As you may have heard, John Edwards has endorsed Barack Obama. That Times blog post says (alongside much more):

...privately, [Edwards] told aides that he would consider the role of vice president, and favored the position of attorney general, which would appeal to his experience of decades spent in courtrooms as a trial lawyer in North Carolina; and his desire to follow in the footsteps of Robert F. Kennedy, one of his heroes.

I think Edwards--who has been kind of a hero of mine, off-and-on--would make a deserving AG nominee. But if they could overcome the unlikelyhood--has anyone ever been a vice presidential nominee two elections in a row for two different presidential candidates?--that's a ticket I would dearly love to see.

Everything else aside, think of the wit of a campaign with Obama, Edwards, and John McCain. I don't want McCain in the oval office, but the man's got a better sense of humor than either Bush or Clinton. If McCain picks Rudy Giuliani as his running mate, get the popcorn.

In bed with Marilyn Monroe

Mr. McAuliffe, don't make me angry. You wouldn't like me when I'm angry.

Clinton Chair Praises Fox News

On Fox & Friends -- a show we last mentioned, I believe, after it repeated the false smear that Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, was educated in a madrassa -- the affable Terry McAuliffe appeared this morning to explain the difficult delegate math that would lead Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NY, to the Democratic nomination.

"...I have said this - Fox has been one of the most responsible in this presidential campaign -- I have said that all along.''

-Political Punch

So this is what it's come to, huh folks? The chairman of a Democrat's campaign actually sucking Fox's cock on cable TV.

Mrs. Clinton: Sometimes the most powerful thing you can do is know when to give up...

Movies that apparently few of you have seen, or at least remember

Being the (unguessed) answers to my annual "name that movie" quiz...

9. "Yeah, I had a dream, Charlie, but now I’m awake. And I hate my dream."

Was from Carlito's Way. A film I think takes itself way too seriously; is flawed and overrated, but man I empathize with that line.

5. "This mission sucks!"

Was from the Lost in Space movie, and truer words were never spoken. As Peter David said, to LiS movie writer Akiva Goldsman, "subtext" is something you find spray-painted on the side of the Red October.

So why does that quote stay with me? Because Apollo 440 sampled it into their dance-rock-trash remake of the theme, by far the greatest thing to come out of the movie.



Not that this is saying a lot...

4. "How could you?"

"It was easy."

Are from I, the Jury. Asked by a woman who's just been killed; answered by the man who's just killed her.

The "hero," yet.

It's that kinda movie.

2. "Well now, what about that, huh? What about a woman showing up naked in a public place, Freddie?"
"Well I'm for it, of course."

...this one, I'm surprised none of you got. I was deliberately going for a mix of the blockbuster and the more obscure this year, but for pete's sake.

One of the funniest movies of the past 25 years? Anybody?

Eva Amurri makes my favorite color glad to be alive.

Very very glad.


(Seriously--I think she's some kind of Welsh/Italian goddess. Look, in this image it even looks like she has an extra arm...)

I just finished reading So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits--and the President--Failed on Iraq by Greg Mitchell over the weekend

This link leads to the Amazon page, which features my review.

Last Friday, as is my habit on days when I see my therapist, after I took my walk around the park I went to lunch at Burger King.

I carried the book in with me--I'm a constant reader-while-I-eat.

The young woman who took my order, a friendly sort who I've seen more than a few times there before, caught sight of the first part of the title, and asked if it was a self-help book.

No, I said, letting her see the whole cover, it's about the war.

Which war?

The war we're in now.

Then she surprised me mildly by asking Is it anti-soldier or antimilitary?

No, I said, it's not anti-soldier, it's anti-some of our leaders.

She read the subtitle then and, as I remember it, nodded sadly and smiled slightly, adding, Yeah, they screwed up.

I've kept this back-and-forth in mind because, I think, there was something so telling about the way in which she leapt to the conclusion that a book called So Wrong for So Long, with a picture of a US soldier on its cover, must be antimilitary.

I'm not sure what it tells me, but I think it's telling. I wondered not long afterward if she has a relative or other loved one who either has or is serving.

I thought of asking, but decided it would be an invasion of her privacy.

This is vicious.

...tower over london/Tower up and frankly I'm amazed/What's done cannot be undone, not here not in london/What's done can never be erased

Your Score: Macbeth

You scored 49% = Tragic, 34% = Comic, 37% = Romantic, 36% = Historic

You are Macbeth! A supposed retelling of the true story of King Macbeth of Scotland, Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's bloodiest plays. Macbeth, after hearing the prophesy of three witches, believes he will be named king of Scotland. However, this line of thinking eventually leads Macbeth down a horrible road of blood and death as he fights first to gain, and then to keep hold of the crown. Believing the play to be cursed, many actors will not even say the name of the play inside of a theater unless it is being performed and refer to it simply as "The Scottish Play". But you probably don't care about some stupid old curse. As Macbeth you most likely don't take warnings too well and you are so headstrong that you can't take good advice when it comes your way, even if it is for your own good. But being Macbeth isn't all bad. You are most likely a man (or woman) of action. People probably like you because you are good at thinking on your feet and making quick decisions. But be careful, as your rash behavior may also get you in to trouble along the way.

Link: The Which Shakespeare Play Are You? Test written by macbee on OkCupid, home of the The Dating Persona Test View My Profile(macbee)

There's something in this about all women, # 15

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Say...hasn't it been quite some time since I posted video of young women dancing to a club classic?*

We must correct this at once.










*or in this case, a record that's stolen from a club classic, but the principle's the same.

The question: Why won't Hillary Clinton just give it up?

Asked and answered:

Hillary Clinton may have a financial incentive to remain in the presidential race for a while. And she has Senator John McCain to thank for it.

Clinton loaned her struggling campaign $11 million in recent months. A little-known provision of a 2002 campaign- finance law cosponsored by McCain prevents candidates who drop out of the race from raising money after the nominating conventions to repay themselves for personal loans.

Should Clinton fail to come up with the funds by the Democratic convention in August, she'll be out the $11 million. If she quits the campaign before then, she may find it hard to get people to keep giving cash just so she can retire her debt.

Can we stop pretending she gives a fuck about any of us at this point now?

The obligatory "cheap joke for late in the evening."

Stairway to paradise.

A choice of captions

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One: "See Africa the way the natives do,' you said, 'you don't want to go on one of those tacky guided tours,' you said, ‘we’ll get 'em cheap,' you said..."

Two: "Boy, Rick Santorum sure was right. If not for same-sex marriage, we never could have..."

Three: "On three, we rampage. Pass it on."

Four: "Psst! Say, Mabel."
"What is it, Gertrude?"
"Did I have too much champagne last night, or are there blue humans riding us?"

Six: "I told you not to double down. Didn't I tell you not to double down? My brand-new BMW and you had a pair of sixes..."

Seven: "I AM NOT AN ANIMAL! I AM A-"
"Steve, calm down, you're an animal."
"Oh, right. Sorry. Sorry, everybody."

Eight: "And I'm telling you, the corn was as high as my eye!"

Nine: "So I said to George Lakoff', I said, you never even think of me at all anymore!"

And yes, I'm still very depressed.

The growing death toll in Myanmar, and the middle east, to say nothing of our own midwest and south.

The economy.

Hillary Clinton's apparent inability to know when she's beaten.

Jennifer Aniston frolicking with John Mayer.

Once again, it makes you wonder what's really worth staying alive for, doesn't it?

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...Kitties!

Madonna and other mothers

As the vile Rumsfeld might have said, you've got to live with the mother you have, not the mother you might want. Nevertheless, here are some mothers (or mother-figures, or symbols) I might want. How many can you name?

I've run out of flowery ways in which to say this

Sweet lord but Scarlett Johansson has some big tits.

Caption this photo

Wendy had begun to suspect that Tinkerbell really didn't like her.

Why the heck are McCain's people denying that he didn't support Bush?

Recently, word has surfaced that in early 2001 John McCain said he did not vote for George W. Bush in 2000. This word first came from Arianna Huffington, and had reportedly been confirmed by one other who was present, but chose to remain anonymous.

Representatives for the McCain campaign, meanwhile, denied this. Yesterday, however, two more people who attended the same dinner went on-the-record to say yes, that was how they remembered it too.

The two more people? Brad Whitford, who played the role of Josh on "West Wing," and the great Richard Schiff, Toby on the same series (both deservedly Emmy-Award winners).

Now, I was going to link to this item with a headline like "A chance to mention a TV show I enjoyed (and continue to, on DVD), and make a politician I don't like look bad in one post? Woo hoo!"

But, something dawned on me as I was writing the above. According to most if not all of the math I've seen, McCain's support of a president most Americans are now deeply critical of is a big millstone around his neck.

So why not say, "No, I admit it, I did not want George W. Bush to be president in 2000 (like anyone's going to be surprised)?" Is it because of his cozying up to the president in the years since? Well, you don't have to be Leo McGarry to see a way out of that, and it's one I know Republicans are willing to use for political purposes:

9/11. All he has to do is say "no, I didn't support President Bush at first, at least not fully, but after September 11 (when the world changed), my opinion of him changed and evolved." He could even throw in a bit about how, as one who has sacrificed in war, he knows the importance of unity in wartime.

There's even an escape hatch in that for him to say (now that the wheel of public opinion has turned against Bush), that though he believed in the president, it saddens him to see how he's gotten the country buried up to its neck.

But, I'm probably crazy to think John "straight talk" McCain would ever say anything so devious...

My favorite color worships Paz Vega

Oh, you crazy moon