Feb
5
2008

URLs du Jour

2008-02-05

  • Attention, students of Camden-Rockport (ME) Middle School: intentional farting will get you a detention. (Via ABP.)

  • OK, so most of our readers are not Maine middle-schoolers. But if you're one of our European readers, you might want to check out P. J. O'Rourke's effort to explain American politics to you. Sample:
    The difference between American parties is actually simple. Democrats are in favor of higher taxes to pay for greater spending, while Republicans are in favor of greater spending, for which the taxpayers will pay. In foreign policy, Republicans intend to pursue the war in Iraq but to do so with a minimal number of troops on the ground. This is not to be confused with the disastrous Bush/Cheney/Rumsfeld policy of using a minimal number of troops on the ground to pursue the war in Iraq. Democrats intend to end the war, but they don't know when. Democrats are making the "high school sex promise": I'll pull out in time, honest!

    OK, so most of our readers are not European either. But I assume you're smart enough to see the name "P. J. O'Rourke" and click anyway.

  • Certainly this is too good to await one of our periodic Phony Campaign posts:
    John McCain said he would take public election funds and abide by the FEC's spending caps, so, naturally, John McCain will not take public funds or abide by the spending caps.
    Sometimes I imagine Fred Thompson out there muttering: "I can't believe I lost to this guy."