Fulfilled Expectations

I can hear the Maury Povitch show from here. Woman says her man is cheating on her. He denies it. She got three sexually transmitted diseases while they were together. Maury's going to put him on a lie detector. Gosh, I wonder what it will say. Update: Liar. … [Read more...] about The Thrilling Suspense of Maury

Via Nobody's Business comes the news that our British cousins have made it illegal to take pictures of cops: From today, anyone taking a photograph of a police officer could be deemed to have committed a criminal offence. That is because of a new law - Section 76 of the Counter Terrorism Act - which has come into force. It permits the arrest of anyone found "eliciting, … [Read more...] about Unrelated Stories: Photographing Cops

Megan McArdle puts it in perspective: Most of my friends are libertarians, and hence tend to assume that this sort of quid pro quo is in fact how people get appointments.  But we thought it was done with some subtlety, a nudge and a wink, not full frontal demands for payola... There's something really sad about having gone so far that your indelicacy actually amazes the … [Read more...] about Best Line About Blagojevich

Jon Stewart opened his show with a few meaningless pleasantries and then started the news with The word "jagoff"...gets thrown around a lot in today's society... and I just knew we were the story. … [Read more...] about It’s Official: We Rule the News Cycle

The U.S. Attorney here in Illinois, Patrick Fitzgerald, has generally been considered pretty good at uncovering political corruption, and today he was promoted to awesome: His office just charged Governor Rod Blagojevich on some amazing charges---none of that "misusing the postal meter"-style corruption for our boy Blago. The feds actually arrested him at his home. I … [Read more...] about Governor Rod Blagojevich Arrested…Finally