Bobby Bork’s Borking of an inborkable Kagan

I love Robert Bork, not because I agree with any of his positions or respect him as a jurist, but because of him, I get to say Bork, and if I am feeling particularly whimsical, I get to say Bobby Bork.  Thanks to his lack of understanding or respect for a woman’s right to choose, we have been given...

Jordan Is Palestine — No, Really

Geert Wilders, for anyone who does not know the name, is the head of an extremely right-wing political party in The Netherlands, called — in the standard format of the name describing the opposite of what it actually is — the Party for Freedom (which, according to Wikipedia, is the third...

Oil Spells Big Trouble for Little Fish

CNN reported this week that a small, recently-discovered deep-water fish may be on the verge of extinction as a result of the oil spill.  The Louisiana pancake batfish (Halieutichthys aculeatus) lives on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico at a depth of 1500 feet.  Interestingly, this little guy is in the...

Sharron Angle LOLZ

My spidey senses are tingling, the LOLZ are strong in this one. I have a feeling that this will be the first in a series of LOLZ from Sharron Angle. Sharron Angle was plucked from obscurity 10 days ago when she defeated Sue Lowden in the Nevada Republican primary election for Senate. She will go head to head...

A Tweet of the Times

A Utah prison has conducted what will most likely be the last official execution by firing squad in the United States.  However, what should have been a story about society continuing the barbaric practice of the death penalty, has instead turned into one of on a perversion of social media.  For the first...