I HAVE HAD IT WITH THESE MOTHERFUCKING KIDS ON MY MOTHERFUCKING LAWN.

Sacrilege!

Charice fans, you don't want to miss this episode! The pop star returns as Sunshine Corazon for the first time since the season premiere, and belts Celine Dion's 'All by Myself.'

Orly!

Via Mediaite twelve more minutes of crazy. Way to go CNN!

I wonder if she's paid her fine yet.

Folks Are Dumb

Really?

Jonah Goldberg:

I cannot remember a more depressing week in Washington.

Born yesterday I guess.

Potential candidates for depressinger weeks:

Gaylord

Judicial Activism

Some news:

Ontario Superior Court Justice Donald Taliano found that the marijuana program is failing to ensure that patients who need the drug can get the necessary approvals. So the St. Catharines, Ont. justice declared the "Marihuana Medical Access Regulations" invalid.

And, because the problems with the program force medical marijuana users to resort to illegal means to obtain their marijuana, Taliano also struck down two sections of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act that prohibit possession and cultivating marijuana.

In Soviet USA, judge strikes down YOU!

Suspense

Now We Are Free

Maybe they'll get the hang of things, maybe not:

A military court in Egypt has sentenced an internet activist to three years in jail for criticising the armed forces.

Maikel Nabil was arrested last month for blogs that criticised the army's role during anti-government protests.

The 26-year-old is thought to be the first blogger jailed in Egypt since the ousting of President Hosni Mubarak.

Let us state just for the fun of it that the Egyptian Armed Forces are led by a bunch of ass-licking morons.

Fun Abroad

Amusements of the Hawler governate of Iraqi Kurdistan. Rail toboggans. Mountain meadows. Bumper cars.

Mind you some parts seem more hostile than others.



And I'm not even including the zorb attacks. Fight, people, fight!



This is what happens when you rely on China as your زورب supplier.

Oh, there's Arabic there and not just Kurdish, so we can fake some English content.

Oh Lord

John Nolte:

“Soul Surfer,” which is based on the true story of Bethany Hamilton, a young tournament surfer whose Christian faith and family help her to overcome a shark attack that cost her an arm, stars Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt. Thanks to some very good marketing to the teenage crowd in general and to the Christian market specifically, what Hollywood has here is one less excuse to keep ‘em coming.

Bring on the Christians:

Welcome to Wonderful Calgary

Somehow the powers that be decided to put me in downtown Calgary a few weeks ago. This is some Monday video which YouTube's interface completely buggers up and I'm too tired to fix:



Yes, Mr. Westerberg, other cities are so afeared of winter that they too have turned their downtown buildings into a giant linked shopping mall, although I have to say Calgarians have a better winter than Minneapolis and are probably just spending money on construction to spend: oil wealth dontcha know, best displayed on fire on top of a fucking tower just because. (That flame's not continuous, but nobody seemed to know why it was lit so the whimsy of pretend Texans will do.)

I arrived Sunday, and the place was dead. Calgary has managed to destroy its downtown through a combination of terrible development and absurd suburban sprawl. There isn't much of a reason to go there but it's near some nice mountains and it's warmer and less of an industrial hellhole than its northern rival Edmonton. Didn't have time for the Glenbow which is sometimes worth a look.

The Road to Damascus

Lou Marinelli once did a lot of work for the National Organization for Marriage:

Having spent the last five years putting all of my political will, interest and energy into fighting against the spread of same-sex marriage as if it were a contagious disease, I must admit that it is hard for me to put the following text into words let alone utter them with my own voice.

Whether it is an issue of disbelief, shame or embarrassment, the one thing that is for sure is that I have come to this point after several months of an internal conflict with myself. That conflict gradually tore away at me until recently when I was able to for the first time simply admit to myself that I do in fact support civil marriage equality.

It's an interesting read.

Ironically, one of the last tour stops added to the itinerary was Atlanta and I bring this site up because it was in Atlanta that I can remember that I questioned what I was doing for the first time. The NOM showing in the heart of the Bible-belt was dismal and the hundreds of counter-protesters who showed up were nothing short of inspiring.

Showing up with the puppets works, kids.

Forgot That Part

David A. Patten at Newsmax writes in praise of Glenn Beck:

Beck’s rise to media stardom followed a meteoric path since he joined Fox News in October 2008 just weeks before Barack Obama captured the presidency. With his black-rimmed glasses and chalkboard, at times he seemed like the living personification of Howard Beale, the fictional character in the 1976 film "Network," who persuaded Americans to stand up en masse and yell, “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.”

Unmentioned in the article is that Howard Beale was completely fucking unhinged. Strangely enough, no synonyms for "crazy" appear in the piece either.

Let us recycle:

Also, bye Sidney, thanks for the movies.

Measurable Results

The decline of nursing education in Mexico is producing ill-prepared graduates:

Conservatism Defined

Frank DeMartini on why New Orleans gets more film business:

Mayor Cedric Glover may be a Democrat, but he is a great conservative when it comes to business. He helped us in many ways when we were building the studio including helping us in the land acquisition and facilitating a loan from the city when the economy collapsed and we needed a little extra cash to make sure the project did not fall apart.

Simple! Just like, um, General Motors.

A Fairly Short Song

Transparency

A little gift for T&U: