A Spork in the Drawer

It's A Holiday!

Frequent commenter sherry gets all Labor Day on your asses:

Here and here.

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Noted In Passing

Posting will be light (or non-existent, most likely) through the holiday weekend.

The usual Saturday and Sunday stuff will still occur.

At any rate, "wide stances" are bad in public bathrooms.

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Flashback

Two years ago today:

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You Don't Roll Out A New Product In August

Juan Cole passes along an unconfirmed tip that DeFib Dick has ordered the selling of the Iran war to begin next week.

Given that on Tuesday George was going on about a "nuclear holocaust" should Iran continue with its nuke program we might want to take this seriously.

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Somebody's A Wee Bit Defensive

Tucker:

Last night on MSNBC Live, during a discussion about Sen. Larry Craig's (R-ID) arrest for "lewd conduct" and eventual guilty plea, MSNBC's Tucker Carlson described his assault on a man who he said "bothered" him in a Washington, D.C., public restroom.

Carlson asserted, "Having sex in a public men's room is outrageous. It's also really common. I've been bothered in men's rooms." When host Dan Abrams asked how Carlson responded to being "bothered," Carlson asserted, "I went back with someone I knew and grabbed the guy by the -- you know, and grabbed him, and ... hit him against the stall with his head, actually. ... And then the cops came and arrested him." Carlson had claimed earlier in the discussion, "I've been bothered in Georgetown Park," in Washington, D.C., "when I was in high school."

Apparently, Carlson wants it to be known that he's definitely not gay. And who's to argue with this example of prime heterosexual beef?

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UPDATE: Tucker now denies he engaged in any fag-bashing.

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Brilliant!

I removed this post because it revealed my extraordinarily poor reading comprehension skills.

And I gave myself the "Idiots" tag as punishment.

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***IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT***

Sen. Larry Craig (R-Wide Stance) wants you to know:

"Let me be clear: I am not gay. I never have been gay[.]"

Craig, second from left, is "not gay."

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Permanent Fear

John Cole, via C&L, finds this gem:

Two people who sprinkled flour in a parking lot to mark a trail for their offbeat running club inadvertently caused a bioterrorism scare and now face a felony charge.

The sprinkled powder forced hundreds to evacuate an IKEA furniture store Thursday.

New Haven ophthalmologist Daniel Salchow, 36, and his sister, Dorothee, 31, who is visiting from Hamburg, Germany, were both charged with first-degree breach of peace, a felony.

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Daniel Salchow biked back to IKEA when he heard there was a problem and told officers the powder was just harmless flour, which he said he and his sister have sprinkled everywhere from New York to California without incident.

“Not in my wildest dreams did I ever anticipate anything like that,” he said.

Mayoral spokeswoman Jessica Mayorga said the city plans to seek restitution from the Salchows, who are due in court Sept. 14.

“You see powder connected by arrows and chalk, you never know,” she said. “It could be a terrorist, it could be something more serious. We’re thankful it wasn’t, but there were a lot of resources that went into figuring that out.”

As John says, welcome to Bedwetter Nation. Not all that surprising, perhaps, given that the administration believes in ruling by fear. I believe psychologists call this "learned helplessness."

Heckuva job, Bushie.

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Oh, Yeah, That's What They Need

Haven't they suffered enough?

President Bush is marking Hurricane Katrina's devastating blow two years ago by celebrating those he says have "dedicated their lives to the renewal of New Orleans" even as he and others are criticized for not doing more to get the city and Gulf Coast back to their former selves.

Bush and his wife, Laura, are to spend Wednesday's anniversary remembering the storm in New Orleans and Bay St. Louis, Miss.

(Image by Suspect Device via scout prime.)

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Republican Morality

Larry Craig (Republican - ID).

That is all.

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