Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
I thoroughly recommend Robert Crumb’s new book The Book of Genesis Illustrated; exceptionally well done, and done straight, word for word. One note: while reasonably tastefully done, there’s no way to render the begats and things like Lot and his daughters without pictures that would make your maiden aunt Edna go *gleep, that’s a bare [...]
I have been listening to enough rants, hate and nonsense in the last year and a half to last me a lifetime or more, and I’ve been more than fed up with it all. But I started realizing that this sort of crud is endemic; uninformed people who choke off their sources of information to [...]
I had to look up the meaning of hoon for this one (wild, stupid and reckless driver in a criminal sense) – 79 year old man doing 160 k in a 100k zone Best man claims he was raped by a stripper as part of the show at the bachelor party.
Big jump in the rates of teen cases of STDs and syphilis and teen pregnancies during the Bush administration, according to the CDC. A different sort of ‘don’t ask, and we won’t tell you’.
John Ensign has decided that he’s not resigning his seat, he’s running for re-election and he’s expecting the voters to forget it as soon after Britney Spears is killed in a love-suicide pact with Lindsey Lohan and CNN spends a week of coverage on the aftermath as possible. Well, whatever keeps his dad’s and the [...]
New Zealander taekwondo champ trying to open a whorehouse in his home country to support his bid to go to the London Olympics in 2012. Well, it’s not as nice as a Wheaties box…
The short version seems to be that it’s unlikely without further explosions that Gov. Sanford of South Carolina will be forced to quit his job over the whole affair-affair, but it’s pretty certain that his political future is totally destroyed. This review from the South Carolina paper The State puts it in a nutshell, without [...]
From a new WaPo article about details on how Governor Sanford elaborately jerry-rigged up an Official Trip To Argentina to see his ‘soulmate’ in Buenos Aires, we have a new euphemism to go along with ‘hiking the appalachian trail‘ – to ‘go Dove Hunting‘.
Like nobody had ever heard of Russians using hookers to lure Western diplomats into compromising positions. Sheesh. The more I hear about the whole Senator Ensign story, the more I think that sex aside, the man should resign his office because he’s a crook and an idiot. Getting your bazillionaire parents to pay off your [...]
Betting ring on an Australian Navy ship alleged where one could win points/money on having sex with female sailors, with bonuses for daring locations and less attainable women (including gay women). Some people do not learn. Disgusting.
I am singularly uninterested in the Jackson story. I’ve seen enough oddball celebrity circuses, and the really interesting and truly weird stuff will not come out for a while for most people. I expect more news circuses repeated endlessly on the news, and I will ignore them all. Finally, someone sems to be doing something [...]
I can’t read the love letters from Governor Sanford to his girlfriend without this going though my head. Sorry. As one right-wing blog said today: Under different circumstances I think he could have survived this, but it’s a quirk of our politics that voters don’t mind cheating as much as they do inept cheating. Infidelity [...]
Gov Sanford of South Carolina admits that his mysterious disappearance over the last week was to go off to Argentina to see his mistress. Well, there’s always the Sanford / Ensign ticket for the GOP next time, with the motto: “Don’t do as I do, do as I say.” And yes, that is Gary Hart [...]
“I am sorry and did not want to hurt her. I still love Haylie and would have stopped doing porn if she had asked me to.” Woman finds out when arranging for her batchelorette / hen party that her fiance is a porn actor. Not was, but IS.
“So, Gordon, he says – sweetheart? Wake up, I need to talk. An’ the missus, she says – ahmf, an’ she rools over. Gordon keeps at her, he says Should I sack Darling for Balls? Noo Anser. Darling? he keeps on – Darling? Balls? Ah, it’s too late for tha’ she says and goes back [...]