I’ll stop posting pictures for a little while after this:

Okay, this is great:
[Florida] State Rep. Bob Allen told police he was just playing along when a undercover officer suggested in a public restroom that the legislator give him oral sex and $20 because he was intimidated, according to a taped statement and other documents released Thursday.
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“This was a pretty stocky black […]

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The Tank has posted an editorial photograph from The New York Post making fun of Barack Obama’s discussion of sending troops to rout al-Qaeda in Pakistan:

I suppose no one remembers Bush’s inability to name Pakistan’s president before he was elected:
Andy Hiller, a political reporter for WHDH-TV in Boston . . . asked Bush to name […]

Is it taking the Ten Commandments too far to deny a ventriloquist’s dummy (or, to be politically correct, “hard figure” — no pun intended) a tryst with Winona Ryder? To a couple of our fellow Texans who make hard figures, the answer is a resounding yes.
That the part of the dummy in “The Ten,” which […]

First off this morning, I’d like to point you to abu muqawama’s comments on a critique of Gen. Petraeus, our current commander in Iraq, by Andrew Bacevich in The New Republic.
A couple of his comments that I completely agree with (and many of which I’ve posted here about before):

[T]he big problem, as Bacevich sees […]

Two more notes before I end the night:
An “escort” is advertising online her services to private military contractors in Baghdad’s Green Zone. Sorry, no active-duty troops need call.
Also, for those who aren’t aware: “The Texas Constitution, by the way, has been amended more than 400 times since it was enacted in 1876.”

Lindsay never would have known I cheated* had I not told her.
She asked me twice back-to-back, and I told her the truth the second time — quite unlike her when I knew, intuitively, that she’d started cheating.
She flaunted her cheating, but refused for two weeks to be honest with me about it when I asked. […]