it's starting. let's pay attention.

Negotiators Add Abortion Clause to Spending Bill

happy birthday, meine liebe Constanze!

tonight I will drink a very nice glass of wine in your honor.

Mark Morford: bitter pill

Wallow In Chaos, And Laugh / A pro-Bush outcome and one enormous bitter pill and you without your vodka

"Oh dear God please don't let it be all convoluted and depressing and messy and stupid and please don't let it all embarrass us on an international level all over again even more than it already has and even more than it already is and even more than we've endured lo these past four debilitating and soul-crushing years. Hello? Please? Is it already too late?

Why yes, yes it is."

AAAAAAAAARGH

take your vitamins, kids- we're going to need some strength in the years to come.

'Ann Coulter may be a travesty of humanity, as unacceptable a hunk of flesh draped on a hanger ever to be foisted upon an ignorant populace hungry for more ignorance. Her racism, her character slurs, her whirlwind talent for rewriting history, her ability to leave a glossy coat of slime on any issue she discusses (when she licks a stamp, it curls up and dies), these are condemnable. But credit where credit is due. The skank can shift ass on a dime.'

-- 'Vanity Fair' writer James Wolcott after Ann Coulter successfully dodged two pies thrown at her during a speaking engagement."