http://www.ebaumsworld.com/flash/peanutbutter.html

I'm so very very sorry.

Some people simply have WAY too much free time on their hands...

Shelby Foote passed on this summer (at a grand old age, to be sure). He was the author of the masterful three-volume history of the American Civil War, and he gained fame after appearing in Ken Burns' documentary of that conflict. He had a perfect voice, a voice I could listen to all day long.

I'd link to the interview here, but hey -- my poor blog needs the traffic. But since I'm a nice guy and all, here's an hour-long Booknotes interview (alas, you need the crappy RealPlayer to see it): link.

Why do I bring this up at all? Because you're all a bunch of culture-free retards who desperately need some literary churchin' up.

I was so taken by your inspirational comments on Dana Milbank this morning that I thought I would try my hand with Chris Matthews--birds of a feather, those two, although that's kind of hard on the birds.

It's a cheery little holiday post called "Chris Matthews and the nature of evil :"

With bombs going off in Tel-Aviv and fires re-igniting in Paris and the United States hamstrung by its own understanding, those "on the other side" will have a word for the urbane westerners who feel their pain, such as Chris Matthews. Evil. And what will he call them then?

Always one to take advantage of such offers...

If any of you are the least bit interested in Central Asia news, you should be reading my blog, Registan.net. There's been nothing incredibly fascinating lately unless you're into geopolitics or political intrigue in the region. But, posts on how batshit crazy Turkmenistan is are always worth reading.

I did photographic analysis on MoDo's shoes here.

Ah, hell. Why not.

A link to an inspirational story of a radish that touched lives, and was brought low by vandals.

It's like Seabiscuit, except with a plant and some crazy Japanese.

42 yrs ago today, where were you? Someone commented on my blog that had actually interviewed JFK. Wow! Now, I want to hear your story.

Ace,

You've got to read Uncle Jimbo's Rumsfeld letter on Iraqi Troop Withdrawal. It's pretty damn funny, and right on target.

Have a good one today.

At World Mag Blog, I posted about the author of South Park Conservatives giving Hollywood the secret to boosting their sagging box-office numbers - make more conservative movies.

At Two or Three.net, I wrote about Disney trying to play to both sides of the field - marketing Chronicles of Narnia to both secular and Christian audiences. The strategy could bring in millions or it could back fire. I think the film will rival Lord of the Rings in box office success and franchise viability.

Darfur - its all about O.I.L.

Chaves is going to invade Curacao(he already grabbed Bird Island from Dominica as a test case)

The Amman bombing was an assassination

Senator Levin is covering up evidence

Housing development relocated due to fairies under a rock

TWD, I was probably taking a nap, I was 4.

Monty, my wife gave me Shelby Foote's Civil War histories for my birthday a few years ago - they are a great read.

Thanks for the opportunuity to link.

One of my posts concerns the effect Islamofascism has had on Holland.

"From The Australian comes this bleak picture of sic transit gloria Holland. Doomed by a cultural relativism that was only too happy to favor cultures other than its own, and a too easy immigration policy, Holland has limited chances of regaining the sort of society that enabled it to be a European leader. Only the legendary Dutch resiliance offers me any hope that Holland can shine again."

In the "oldest post" competition, I just threw up a review of NBC's Martian Chronicles miniseries, which I started re-watching on DVD last night.

It's more painful than a Tubino comment, but at least I get to drag out and dust off the Rock Hudson jokes from the attic.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

From my brand-new moronblog, I've got a desperate plea for Mother Sheehan and a link to a joke that's still fresh after 65 years (trust me, it's true).

Begin shameless promotion.

Crackpot Theory Number One, French Riots Were Caused by Polygamy
As the violence begins to subside in France (which means that they are running out of cars to burn) the French politicians are now turning to trying to figure out the causes (lay blame) for the riots which have racked the country for over two weeks. One of these theories caught my eye as I was looking over the news from Frogistan (hehe thanks Ace). Namely, that polygamous families have caused the riots.

http://crackas.blogspot.com/2005/11/crackpot-theory-number-one-french.html

/shameless promotion

A candidate for 'Best Blog Post' should have been
Glenn Reynold's first use of the word 'Heh'.

Using Glenn's archives, the 'Heh-Zero' post involved Glenn's penis.

Heh-Zero?

I'VE LONG SINCE quit wasting my time with warbloggerwatch, so I had to find out from Steven Chapman that they're obsessed with the size of my penis.

Heh. They can't handle the truth.

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Indeed.

Dave at Garfield Ridge:

Bradbury's The Martian Chronicles stories didn't age as well as some of his other fiction, either -- but if you read them as "fables" rather than as science fiction, they work better. And yes, the TV series was utter horse-hockey; I remember even hating it as a kid.

On the other hand, I loved the Saturday-morning Shazam! show, and upon catching a re-run of this laughably-horrible show, I wondered what they hell my mom was putting in my Cheerios to make me think that show was any good.

Monty,

Didn't know you had a blog - I normally check out the blogs via the moniker-links, which you never use. Does your blog allow comments?

I've got quite a few articles tucked away. Here are two.

Dead Sparrow

Lack of Intelligent Design

geoff:

Nah, no comments yet. There's no point, really; I post so seldom and about such mundane things, a comments feature seems unnecessary. At some point when I have a bit more time to write, I may open comments.

Speaking of comments, feel free to leave some at my place. I'm so ronery!

Jack Sparks' profanity-gilded review of the Country Music Association Awards was hilarious.

Okay, here we go. Finally, Alison Krauss & Union Station plus Jerry Douglas, the best Dobro player on earth. Great Ed, your fucking monkeys in the booth fucked up her mic. Jesus Christ, pause. Hey Ed!!! You dumbass!!! The most talented performer all night just kicked off her song with a fucked up mic level. Is it that fucking hard? Who's running this show? I'm sorry Alison. I'm sorry you've graced us with your beautiful voice and talent in a genre and industry that appreciates you about as much as the porn industry appreciates a 57 year old grandmother with the clap. You deserve better than Ed and his minions of evil. You've played in bombed out shit-holes, just this side of Branson, Missouri where there was barely more than one outlet, and yet your mic was on when you started singing. Guess what? You just launched into a song on the stage of Madison Square Garden and that wasn't the case. How long, oh Lord, how long?

Sure it was an accident

Thanks Dave. Now we know spongeworthy's real name.

Could we say "jouled jewels"? Ouchie!

The equivalent to beer for women.

Since my snuggly little ValuRite vodka-drinkin' non-link-fixin' Acey-poo won't cave in to the female demographic and post hot man photos:

http://feistywhore.blogspot.com/2005/11/xxx-stocking-stuffer-action.html

For those not interested in pictures of men's junk:

http://feistywhore.blogspot.com/2005/11/condescending-blog-post-du-jour-i-know.html

My most recent post, in which I announced I'm not blogging aymore, turned out to be surprisingly popular.

This is how I roll. (Based on an Ace Link)

Brevity may be the Soul of Wit.

Thank you and good night... Peace out!

I saw Tom Daschle give a speech a few weeks ago:

Tom Daschle at Northwestern University

Here's a snippet:
On a sidenote: Before the speech began, a large section was left vacant, filled with signs saying "reserved seating." I asked a friend, "Why are so many seats empty? Does Daschle come with a huge entourage or something?" To which my friend responds, "Yeah, I bet he has this huge posse like MC Hammer."

And suddenly, the best moment of the evening was my vision of Tom Daschle walking up to the podium in a huge pair of shiny parachute pants.

I don't have a blog, but I'll put in a plug for "noted blog personality" Jack Michaels' brand new blog from Hawaii at Letters from Desolation Row, where Laura, skinbad, sobek, civetta, Retired Geezer, jayne and I are currently about 95% of the commenters. I'm told that Jack formerly blogged at the now-defunct All Around the Blogtower (discontinued when he moved to Hawaii), where Laura's infamous drunken poem was originally published.

Jack is sponsoring a war against Iceland (it has to do with Bobby Fisher), and Marlboro Lights are the official cigarette of this blog, due to a paid endorsement by me.

Seriously. You can buy an endorsement too. $50 for 50 words, but rates are likely to rise when Jack starts to actually get some traffic.

If you piss Jack off, he will threaten to use Bill Ardolino as a guest blogger to punish you. Need I say more?

Since I already got my monthly Acealanche for my World's Ugliest Dog post, I'll second Michael's recommendation for Jack's blog.

Don't miss Ask Jack Thursday.

Wuzzadem has his usual, funny post up also.
http://wuzzadem.typepad.com/wuz/2005/11/godzilla_vs_mur.html

RG

I don't blog about anything worth reading but I did score
a new orchid to kill. It's a Dracula lotax which is a tiny specimin from the cloud forests of Ecuador.

Vlad, as we call him, is very sensative and reacts badly to the slightest perturbation; kind of like Spazin' Andy but without the beagle.

Now lauraw, why would you say such a thing about spongeworthy?????

Basil's blog has interviews with some of The Cotillon girls. It's pretty funny.
http://www.basilsblog.net/2005/11/the-cotillion/trackback/

I put up a couple of new posts at my blog, one of which is a special welcome to folks from this, uh, "fine" blog.

opps...posted on wrong thread:

I read that Redstate got an email from Chris Matthews

http://www.redstate.org/story/2005/11/22/184622/30

He says the reporter mis-represented his speech or to quote his email

"I told the students that my way to deal with terrorists was to do what Golda Meir did after the killing of Israeli athletes at the Olympics: track them down and kill them one by one and be rough about it.

I don't know why the reporter chose to ignore my clear statement was the appropriate response to terorism, why he chose to skip to my strong belief that we need to get behind this massive hatred we're facing in the Muslim world."

Hmmm, he seems to have a few typos in it.

Anyway; as one of the comments noted, "Matthews gets his words twisted by the MSM? Oh, sweet poetic justice."

lostinspace

Here is a recent one of mine. It's called The World We Want.

http://rightwingsparkle.blogspot.com/2005/11/world-we-want.html

Of no international importance, of course, but some idiot tried to burn down the hillside we live on, earlier this evening.

Many thanks to the pizza delivery guy who told us about the blaze.

Details Here

JimK, asshole, you mind sucking my big one? Thanks.

RWS, I was carrying over a response to something he said in the 'Sexism in the Blogosphere?' comments.

"I support the troops," said Y reflexively, "but....they enlisted knowing what they were getting into in Iraq so if something happens to them, well..."

And so began my conversation with Y. Read more of my adventure into Blue State America where I was surrounded by those that "Support the troops...but.."

http://opinionator.blogs.com/the_opinionator/2005/11/i_support_the_t_1.html

(Moonbat-length post follows; apologies. I was going to post this on my own blog, but...meh. I'll post it here.)

Writing about Shelby Foote coincided with something I read earlier about how the support for the Iraq war is waning as the American casualty numbers rise.

Right now, we have about 150,000 troops deployed in Iraq. Since the 2003 invasion, we have suffered about 2100 killed and perhaps four times that many wounded. By any historical measure (especially considering the type of combat), this is an amazingly low number. Shelby Foot once noted that a battle in which 10% of the troops engaged were casualties would be considered a bloodbath; however in the Civil War it was not uncommon for battles to result in casualties of 20 to 30% of total forces engaged. And that was in battle after battle.

In the Battle of Gettysburg, approximately 150,000 troops were engaged (North and South). Over three days of hard fighting, between 7,000 and 10,000 young men were killed, and another 40,000 wounded. Think about that before you nod and move on: 50,000 casualties. 23,000 Union men, and 28,000 Confederate men. When the Confederates disengaged and retreated back to Virginia, the wagon-train of wounded stretched for seventeen miles.

And this awful toll was only the worst: other battles were nearly as bad. Antietam, Shiloh, The Wilderness, Fredericksburg, and others resulted in casualties of between 20,000 and 25,000.

And yet...the country endured. We are not weaker than the people who lived then. We must be able to tell the ghosts of our falled soldiers that they did not die in vain; that their sacrifice helped to bring us to victory. If we are going to ask our soldiers to go into battle and perhaps give their own lives in service to our political will, then we owe them clarity of purpose and moral vision.

Falled = fallen.

Fat fingers.

We are not weaker than the people who lived then.

Monty, we are physically stronger than those Americans were; healthier, with better food and water, and with far advanced medicine. Our bodies are not torn down as easily by illness or exertion.

Would that such also benefitted our character. But unfortunately there seems to be an inverse relationship.

True inner strength, grit and determination...let's just say that easy living is hard on the spine.

I'm not saying that Americans are fat and complacent. I'm just saying we ain't what we used to be.

Good comment, Monty.

I've been to many of those Civil War sites when I lived in the D.C. area, and wondered at the horrible carnage and awesome heroism that was displayed on that sacred ground.

So much has already been given for us. And moral clarity is exactly what we owe to those who gave it.

Goodnight sweet peeps.

Haven't seen skinbad around lately, tell him I said 'hey'

I've stood on the hills overlooking Fredericksburg. I've seen where Col. Alexander placed his artillery on those hills.

If you ever get the chance, go stand there, and look down.

It is overwhelming.

Dave at Garfield Ridge is a Civil War buff, and recently posted a great article about an autumn hike through the battlefield at Gettysburg here.

Okay, this is my last link-whoring comment of the night. I've got one more post on a dastardly Palestinian smuggling plot. Check it out for spine-tingling thrills!

After the Blogstorm of two months ago, the Flight 93 Memorial design is unchanged.

One USCitizen has a suggestion. See tractioncontrol.blogspot.com

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