1. Great moments in dumb sentences: Mr. DeLay, the Texas Republican who had been the House majority leader, crowed that he had been “found innocent.” But many of Mr. DeLay’s actions remain legal only because lawmakers have chosen not to criminalize them. Yes, and my poor taste in shirts remains legal only because lawmakers have ...

Break the dentists’ cartel! Dropout factories (I have yet to make it through the whole thing; while it’s news to me, it’s not surprising after a bit of thought, and I would expect there to be some expose of Bell/Oakland-style self-dealing/graft/porksploitation of guaranteed student loans) a pattern that can only be described as illogical and ...

TWDJS It seems whenever I start out, I put myself in a huge hole Americans increasingly accepting of homo air conditioners and homo computers Is Obama a werewolf? And is Yglesias as well? Really? No Coed Frenzy, no Holly Does Hollywood? Oscar Goodman shoots his mouth off again; ML shoots him down Also via ML, ...

George Bush: pussy Jeff Goldberg: occasional mensch Sex Toy or Dog Toy? Bob Geren and Ozzie Guillen: a study in contrasts The BRayser A phrase you never want to see in a real estate listing: “what appears to be some sort of _____”

Clown of the day I: Clown of the day II: Ozzie Guillen (man, I love Jim Thome) Clown of the day III: anti-FSU Lew Wolff (ML’s ballpark series has been really great, BTW) The problem is “neighborhoods.” I’m not referring to the area where the ballpark is located. The issue is the marketing term as ...