Why did the chicken cross the road?

Dr. Laura has the answers.

(Via The Blog of Walker)

Islamarama for the sock puppets

Via Blazing Cat Fur:

The stalwart defenders of don't-insult-me are throwing a bash honoring the team that took Maclean's magazine and Mark Steyn to court. $500 bucks a head, no less!

(For those unfamiliar with the case, go here for background.)

In BCF's comment thread, I ventured to hope this means they're collecting a fund for an appeal. Hmm!

By the way, you've just GOT to pay attention to BCF's little digs in the comments. Like this: "Have a Halal of a good time!"

Ah, yes :) ... rich, bloggy goodness, as Instapundit is wont to say :)

If at first you don't succeed ...

Via Charles Henry at Covenant Zone:

"For all of us who struggle to stay motivated, here's a young fellow giving us a timely example of faith and perseverance in the face of adversity:"

The demise of virtue

"The financial crisis, detonated by greed and recklessness on Wall Street and in the City of London, is for the West a deep, self-inflicted wound. ...

"If we seriously wish to repair the damage, we need to accept that this is fundamentally a moral crisis, not a financial one. It is the product of the self-indulgence and complacency born of our ultraliberal societies, which have substituted such pseudo-religions as political correctness and saving the planet for genuine distinctions between right and wrong and the cultivation of real virtues."

Read the whole thing -- pretty much nails things. No doubt Ayn Rand is spinning in her grave. Anyone got some land to start a Galt's Gulch?

Instapundit's wife, Dr. Helen Smith, gives an interesting take on just that.

Telling quote: "Why work hard, when it's going to be taken from you?"

Plus, guys -- are you a "himbo?"

Take my hard-earned money -- please

A Missourian at An Advocate For The Republic absolutely nails the biggest danger of an Obama presidency -- the "some animals are more equal than others" redistribution of earned money:

"Considering Constitutional scholar and Law Professor Barack Obama's regret over the restrictions placed on the government by the Constitution (a legal document) and its failure (or as I like to put it, 'runaway success') to guarantee a right to your neighbor's property, I thought that maybe we should consider what the founders thought on the subject:

“'When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic.'
-Benjamin Franklin"

AM quotes many, MANY, founding fathers warning against this theft of labor in the name of "the people."

Read the whole thing.

'pumpkin pie zen'

(image credit: Karmasurfer)

Karmasurfer made a pumpkin pie from scratch. (Boy, was it good!)

It was a joyful effort from beginning to delicious end. He sez:

"I suppose it would have been much easier to buy a can of pumpkin stuff, add the spices, and dump it all in a pre-made crust but that wasn't my intention. If I wanted to do it the easiest way possible I'd just buy the damn pie from a place that makes them by the hundreds, but this was supposed to be a zen exercise, not an attempt to acquire a pie. ...

"I didn't build a pie for profit, or to win a prize at the county fair, or because I was hungry. I made it because I wanted to. ...

"If we all did our mundane chores with joy would life taste better?"

'Tom Von Cruise'

(image credit: Col. Robert Neville Always Dresses For Dinner)

My dear friend Col. Neville doesn't channel Mark Twain and Hunter Thompson. He TRUMPS them.

Wrap your taste buds around THIS:

"Dear sports, I watched the freakish nine-minute clip on YouTube, now on Gawker, of Tom ‘Not Joseph Goebbels’ Cruise, talking about the bog-standard whacko crap of Scientology. ...

"I also dug the ones with Tom wearing the ‘Flavor Flav’ medallion cum Super Thetan Award from a box of Cracker Jacks. Dig Tom’s little ‘Sieg Heil’ to the big wall painting of L. Ron Hubbard, done in the style of early 1970’s backstreets of Manila. Yep, real discerning judgement, subtle sense of style and taste there, Tom. Just like some of ya movies."

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Hahahahahahaha! And that's just a snippet! I bow. I debase myself. I grovel at the feet of Tom Bombadil with a twist.

Did I mention (more than once) that I have a monster crush on the Commander of Cool?