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In 1941, the children’s author we know as Dr. Seuss was a political cartoonist. He had a lot to say, graphically, about the events of that time. He was particulalry harsh on appeasers and isolationists.

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Last year at this time I stated:
We could go 2-7 next year, and if the two were Miami and Florida I’d call it a successful season.
Unfortunately, I was eerily prophetic on how bad this season would be. But as this game kicks off, there is hope.
The reader should be aware that I am watching […]

Just posted on RedState:
As DNC Chair, Dean didn’t disappoint… his opponents. He said things like, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for…” and accused the President of playing “hide the salami” with Supreme Court nominations. He even felt compelled, during an “interesting conversation” about “dog pee,” to warn a class of 8th grades […]

Rannie is coming up on one million visitors and to celebrate, he’s giving away unspecified free stuff.
No word on whether he’s including the Nintendo Wii he got. After all, his sister got one too, so he can play hers.
UPDATE: Put me in for Gears of War. Oh, yeah!

On this date in 1999, a weblog was born. At the time, there were somewhere around 300 people writing weblogs. One year later, it was 60,000. Now, there are something like ten million.
That was seven years ago. To put that in perspective, just a few weeks after I began blogging, the […]

Megnut reports that Hellman’s mayonnaise is changing its recipe. This is a potential culinary disaster for sandwich lovers.
I’ll have to give this Duke’s a try. I seem to recall it’s available locally.
Link via Kottke.

I just finished watching Day Break, the new Taye Diggs show in the old Lost time slot.
Its fantastic. I’m looking forward to the re-runs.
UPDATE: Jim has a nice review of the show.

Since Jeff Bowden took the job as Florida State’s offensive coordinator in 2000, FSU has never finished in the top ten. This past weekend, FSU was blown out and shut out at home by Wake Forest.
Yesterday, he did the honorable thing and resigned. (Later breaking news revealed that the FSU Boosters agreed to […]

In the wake of the elections it is now apparent that, even insulated from any potential electoral consequences, the outgoing Senate majority - of the President’s own party - will not even give him the courtesy of an up-or-down floor vote on John Bolton, the President’s nominee for U.N. Ambassador. This has more to […]

Not sure why I didn’t know this, but it explains darn near everything about the politics of the minimum wage:
…union contracts are often pegged to the minimum wage…
So the legendary single mom with two kids scraping by on five bucks an hour really has nothing to do with Democrats’ enthusiasm for jacking the rate […]

Lince Chaffee now says that he may not be a Republican going forward. Those of us who can count on one hand (the left hand, of course) the times he’s actually vted with the party, are pretty sure he hasn’t been a Republican for years anyway.

Overly depressed by the notion of a Speaker Pelosi or a Majority Leader Reid? The Onion has the cure for what ails ya’.
Frito-Lay Angrily Introduces Line Of Healthy Snacks: In January, Frito-Lay will launch a Flat Earth marketing campaign based on the slogan, ‘Bet You Can’t Eat Even One.’
And it’s organic, […]

In the wake of the Democratic victories int he House and possibly the Senate last night, a few things come to mind, both good and bad.
A Self-Inflicted Wound
The root causes of last night’s Republican loss will be debated for quite some time. Without a doubt, though, the Democrats could not have won last night […]

Jonah:
I for one welcome our new Democratic overlords.
The joke was inevitable.

Glenn sez:
My prediction: If they’re bad for the GOP they’ll leak early. If they’re good for the GOP, they won’t.
And what do we hear this lovely afternoon? Crickets.

Scott McClellan never would have said this:
Senior aides to Mr. Bush scoffed at suggestions that the announcement of the verdict had somehow been orchestrated by the White House.
“Are you smoking rope?” Tony Snow, the White House spokesman, said Saturday in anticipation of the verdict. “Are you telling me that in Iraq, that they’re sitting around […]

If you’ve read Enders Game you know that Orson Scott Card has a thoughtful, balanced, and human approach to the horrors of war. In his column today, Card turns his gaze on our foreign policy challenges in Iraq. The result is educational and compelling. If you read only one thing today, skip […]

Heard a little something this morning:
Among the dozens of documents in English were Iraqi reports written in the 1990s and in 2002 for United Nations inspectors in charge of making sure Iraq had abandoned its unconventional arms programs after the Persian Gulf war. Experts say that at the time, Mr. Hussein’s scientists were on the […]

What if the Democrats can’t even win the House race that has Mark Foley’s name still on the ballot?

The Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee had a stiff primary challenge, and looked vulnerable for perhaps the first time in his long career. A wave of scandals had dogged his party in the previous year, and rumor had it that the feds would be indicting him for corruption. If only he […]