Category: The Dish

And a misbegotten invasion of Albania by a seven-foot monarchical pretender.

A blog dedicated to one complaint from an ornery Caucasian a day.

If this is her couch, what does the end table look like?

Stephen Colbert beat Tufts to the chase.

A report from the March To Life and the usual disembodied Republican leadership.

But the results are in:

With his second place finish in Saturday’s Nevada caucus, where Paul defeated Giuliani in every county in the state, the Texas congressman has now received 106,414 votes to 60,220 for Giuliani.

Paul doesn’t exist on Hewitt’s score-card, of course. I’d take it as a compliment. Giuliani is tied with Huckabee for third place in Florida. He may have run the worst campaign in recent memory.

Bill is running hard – and accusing Obama of the kind of attacks his machine has been launching. Yes, he’s accusing Obama of playing the race card – a classic Rove tactic of accusing your opponent of doing exactly what you’re doing. "Shame on you," he leers at the press. Those too lazy or uninformed to read further may well take him at his word. In fact, he is using the prestige and dignity of his office as a massive bulldozer to smear and attack his wife’s opponent.

It really is time to acknowledge that Clinton is running for a third term – in flagrant violation of the 22d Amendment. He’s fighting for unelected power by proxy – just as his wife fought for hers in 1992 and 1996. Their deal is now explicit. And their goal – four terms between them – is in their grasp.

Your machine has arrived.

Another Bill Clinton quote that makes me want to throw up:

"If [Barack Obama] wins this nomination, I’m going to do what I can to help him become president… After all the mean things they said about me, I can’t believe I’m saying this."

Shameless.

A debate as inevitable as it is exhausted. Take it from an expert in genetic epistemology:

The problem with trying to be a reasonable skeptic is that one easily makes enemies on both fronts of any debate: you acknowledge that genetics does set limits to human characteristics, and you get accused of being a genetic determinist and possibly encouraging eugenics. You grant that the environment plays a sometimes major role and you are ridiculed as an anti-scientific fuzzy thinker. Wake up, ladies and gentlemen on both fronts: the reality is both more complex and more fascinating than either caricature would allow. It is neither nature nor nurture, it is — as the title of an unusually balancedbook by Matt Ridley puts it — nature via nurture.