Buffalo Wings and Toasted Ravioli

From the WSJ Opinion Journal (hat tip to Jill at Feministe):

Lawyers and blogging go together
like witches and stoning. According to a survey conducted by
blogads.com, lawyers ranked fourth among both readers and posters to
blogs. Many of the best-known blogs, such as instaPundit.com, are run
by lawyers. It's easy to understand why blogging attracts the J.D. set:
Few professions combine as much creative talent with so much
mind-numbing work.

Bygul

From Ironic Sans: The Hall of Fame Hall of Fame:

Announcing the first inductees to the Hall of Fame Hall of Fame:

Rock and Roll • Inventors • Women • Country Music • Cowboys • College Football • Cowgirls • Rockabilly • Volleyball • Science Fiction • Bowling • Aviation • American Police • Robots • Texas Rangers • Automotive • Ecology • Thoroughbred Racing • Motorsports • Radio • Songwriters • Gymnastics • Amateur Softball • Agriculture • Wrestling • Bicycling • Clowns • Hockey • Fresh Water Fishing • Hackers • Ukelele • Toys • Pirate Radio • Anagrams • Computers • Teachers • Mining • Figure Skating • Ad Slogans • Explorers • Motorcycles • Astronauts • Quilters • Dance • Snowmobiles • Polka • Flight Simulator Scenery • Hawaiian Music • Kites

From the incomparable Majikthise : In praise of the hard left

Canadians aren’t automatically leftists. However, the left is still alive in Canada, whereas in the US people keep talking about how we ought to start a progressive movement.

From Hullabaloo:

Bad Arguments 101by digby

I just heard someone say “they’ve been calling it a quagmire for years!”

From Think Progress:

Bush To Cleveland: ‘Anybody Work Here In This Town?’

After getting frustrated at the length of the Q&A session of his speech in Cleveland today, Bush blurted out, “Anybody work here in this town?” Watch it:

Bush inadvertantly hit upon a subject he otherwise ignored - unemployment in Cleveland. Economic conditions in the city have worsened considerably during Bush’s presidency. Some facts:

- 5.8 percent: Cleveland unemployment rate, Jan. 2006
- 4.5 percent: Cleveland unemployment rate, Jan. 2001

- 5.3 percent: Ohio unemployment rate, Jan. 2006
- 4.0 percent: Ohio unemployment rate, Jan. 2001

- 31.3 percent: Cleveland poverty rate, 2003
- 24.3 percent: Cleveland poverty rate, 2001

So the answer, Mr. President, is that a lot of people in Cleveland don’t work because they can’t find jobs.

From Language Log:

A graduate student went to New Guinea to do research for his dissertation. He found a guide to take him to the remote village whose language he hoped to study. About noon on the second day they began to hear loud, continuous drumming. Disturbed, he asked the guide: “What are those drums?”. The guide replied: “Drums OK, but VERY BAD when they stop.”

The linguist calmed down a little at this, and things went along uneventfully for a while. Then, suddenly, the drums stopped! Worried, the linguist asked:

“The drums have stopped, What happens now?”

The guide crouched down, covered his head with his hands and said: “Bass solo”.

Geoffrey Chaucer Hath a Blog. Here’s a sample:

Aske Chaucere, parte the firste

My
dog is a retriever, but he won’t chase a ball. Every time I throw a toy across the room, he climbs in my lap and licks my face. I know he needs exercise–what do I do?

Pinned To The Floor

Ma Cher Pinnede to The Floore,

By my feithe, firste y oght to praise yow for yowre carefulle husbandrie and governance of yowre hounde. Ther arn sundrie folke who fede ther houndes with rosted flessh, or milk and wastel-breed and reken litel of the helthe of the dogges in question. Yowre care maken
myne eyes to watre with teres, so like it is unto my love for litel Lowys my sone.

Actuallye, a tale of litel Lowys shal bere the kernel of myn counsel unto yow. This yuletide, y gave hym an astrolabe with instructions written by yowres trulie with muchel care and laboure. But whatte does he opene firste? The XBOX CCCLX thatte my Lorde John of Gaunte gave vnto hym. The astrolabe ys styll in its brighte shinye wrappinge papere.

By thys ensample yow might undirstonde that alle thynges taken aftir ther nature, especialie dogges and litel boyes. And Plinie the Eldre telleth us in booke 8 of historie naturale that houndes do chace the enemies and bestes awaie from ther maistres, and yliche that the hostes of Garamante and of Castabale didde usen armies of dogges, for they arn fierce and bloodie. So yow can see thatte “toyes” are not goinge to do it. Yow nede fynden some animal or enemy for yowre dogge to kille, and thenne he will reallye go atte yt.

Le Vostre G

I just saw V for Vendetta this afternoon, and I loved it. I was hopeful, but cautiously so, going in; I loved the first Matrix movie when I first saw it, tolerated the second, and hated the third so much it made me rethink my appreciation of the first one. (For those who don’t know, V for Vendetta was produced and written by The Wachowski Brothers, who wrote and directed the three Matrix films.) V for Vendetta was not only frightening and disturbing, and ultimately stirring and triumphant; it was surprisingly moving. Sure, Hugo Weaving plays the whole movie in a mask, but Keanu Reaves plays every movie that way. (That’s not quite fair; he was actually pretty good as a scary redneck in The Gift.) Anyway, go see it on the big screen.  At a time when both Justice Ginsburg and former Justice O’Connor are intimating that we are seeing the beginnings of a dictatorship, it’s a must-see.