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and Julia Carson is fighting for her political life in a squeaker against Brose McVey, so our lovely local Democrats are reverting to type and accusing the Republicans of racism.
To think I went to high school with our Mayor.

SBC-Yahoo! DSL has been down all morning, so the blog has also been down. (And I can’t work, either, which is even more irritating.)
I find it interesting that I didn’t have an hour’s downtime before SBC switched from Prodigy to Yahoo!, but ever since they did, I’ve been getting all kinds of downtime. Even little power glitches which should be meaningless (since I have everything UPS- and surge-protected) hose the router and necessitate a reboot.
Things are not happy here at One Man’s Vote. And SBC are going to hear about it, given that I pay the big bucks for commercial DSL.

Mark Levin over at NRO has a word up for Algore:

Obviously, Al, you have some unresolved issues. Let’s work through this together. Assume the lotus position, take a deep breath, and now begin chanting your personal mantra: “No controlling legal authority. No controlling legal authority. No controlling legal authority.”
Now that you’re relaxed, and your mind — such as it is — is clear, let’s begin. The Florida election was not in dispute. You just refused to accept the outcome. No matter how many recounts have been taken, Al, you lost. Now, repeat after me: “I, Al Gore, am a loser. I have the personality of porch furniture and the political skills of the Marx Brothers.”

Wonderful. So…Rachel Lucas-like 🙂

Posting here was kind of light today, but I was commenting over on Rachel’s blog.

And quite definitively, too. Go read it.

Take that, you scum-sucking Wahhabist terrorists.
We ought to do the same thing after we give them a fair trial and execute them.
Noted via LGF.

(Via The Professor)
I’m not convinced that selling vibrators in their health services dispensaries is really furthering a university’s academic mission.
I have nothing against a woman using a vibrator, mind you; that’s her business, and as the one student commented, “If people really want one, they can go online.”
Universities continue their slide into irrelevancy with this kind of idiocy.

Here we go again. Another Eagle Scout is claiming he’s an atheist and trying to keep the BSA from kicking him out.
Same old story. This has been tested in court (California Supreme Court, of all places) and upheld. Besides the fact that this “kid” is 19 years old and in two years he’ll be out as a youth member anyway.
How did this boy deal with all the years of repeating the Scout Law, whose 12th point is “A Scout is Reverent”, and the Scout Oath, which says “On my honor, I will do my best, to do my duty to God and my country, and to obey the Scout Law” and refers to keeping oneself “morally straight”?
I guess he just plain lied, didn’t he? Throw out “A Scout is Trustworthy” I guess. And if he’s not Trustworthy, I don’t see how he could be considered Loyal, either.
This is a JOINING REQUIREMENT, for crying out loud. He should have quit as soon as he realized he was an atheist. And I’m frankly amazed he got through his Eagle Board of Review.

…Jesse and Al have been hit with a lawsuit claiming that their remarks about the movie “Barbershop” drove customers away. And get this — it’s not from the moviemakers — it’s from an association of barbershops and beauty salons who say the remarks negatively impacted their business!

The suit was filed Monday by the National Association of Cosmetologists. It accuses Jackson and Sharpton of intentional infliction of emotional distress, fraud, and negligence stemming from their demand for apologies from MGM, which produced the comedy.
The activists had called for scenes deriding Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks to be removed from the film starring Ice Cube and Cedric the Entertainer. MGM refused to cut the scenes.
The association, which claims to represent 50,000 barbers and beauticians, said Jackson and Sharpton misrepresented themselves as spokesmen for the group.
James Stern, chief executive of the group, said Sharpton’s threat to boycott the film and other remarks created a negative public sentiment about the profession, resulting in a loss of business.

Can you say “restraint of trade”? I knew you could.
Turnabout is fair play, boys. No boo-hooing for the cameras, please.
And now, pardon me while I go laugh hysterically…

The Professor links to two stories of true sportsmanship this fine day: Here, and here. And tell me you didn’t wipe a tear away after reading the second one.