Truth (Plus Lies)

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What is probably the proper context for Karl’s comments on the Achenblog.

Simple but also useful.

This David Brooks column has a nice FDR quote at the end of it:

Your government has unmistakable confidence in your ability to hear the worst, without flinching or losing heart. You must, in turn, have complete confidence that your government is keeping nothing from you except information that will help the enemy in his attempt to destroy us.

Hank Azaria does a nice impression of Cleese doing an impression of a Scottish enchanter. But then, after the “Tim” joke, Spamalot broke my comedic heart: King Arthur retorted, in a voice dripping with sarcasm, “Oh, Tim—what a scary name.” …… Stating the punchline implicit in a Monty Python joke is like adding a slap bass solo to “Yesterday.”

Sam Anderson makes Spamalot sound pretty awful to me.

Life without potato is like a sandwich without a filling.

British potato farmers protest the term “couch potato”.

Katie Holmes is in trouble, and Mr. Sun might be her only hope.

The invasion of translucent babies made out of tape.

[awesome]

Reversing field after a meeting with President Bush, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist said he will continue pushing for a floor vote on John R. Bolton for U.N. ambassador. Frist switched his position after initially saying today that negotiations with Democrats to get a vote on Bolton had been exhausted.

Talking to reporters in the White House driveway after he joined other GOP lawmakers for a luncheon with Bush, Frist said: “The president made it very clear that he expects an up or down vote.”

Does he have a principle that wasn’t pushed on him by somebody else?

Korean children make drawings of the Japanese flag getting fucked up.