Category: The Dish

An interesting series of maps detailing where visitors to the various GOP candidate websites are coming from.

I remember the days of misery on boggy rugby fields. But no one really knows what rugby players endure:

Rugby player Ben Czislowski kept competing for more than three months despite the headaches that started after a clash with an opponent.

Czislowski was playing for Brisbane team Wynnum during the April 1 incident involving Tweed Heads forward Matt Austin. He had a head wound stitched up afterward, the Australian Associated Press reported Tuesday.

Czislowski later suffered an eye infection and complained of lethargy and shooting pains in his head.

Then last week, his doctor found a tooth imbedded in Czislowski’s head.

Even National Review in its current theocratic form takes exception to Bush’s recent spasm of half-baked Whiggery. Here’s Lowry:

Culture matters, and that’s something Bush is very reluctant to acknowledge. You can believe freedom is a gift from the Almighty and still recognize that some cultural soil is more or less compatible with supporting political systems that protect liberty. But Bush believes the spread of liberty is "inevitable." If that is the case, why not spare ourselves all the effort and let the inevitable flowering of liberty take hold? Now, he does say that there will be different expressions of liberty and a different pace—"but we’ve all got the same odds of achieving the same result." That strikes me as flat-out wrong, an otherwordly leveling of all the culture and history that separates various societies.

My take on this flim-flam can be read here.

One false move … A photo art-blog from London.

We won’t give any asylum, so they’re illegally coming across the border. Lou Dobbs, call your office.

It turns out that this guy had extremely high levels of anabolic testosterone in his system. Thank God for medical science. (You can read in-love Marc Ambinder’s invaluable coverage of this story here and here.)

It’s better than monkey ball cocktails:

"[T]he rise of endocrinology in the early twentieth century was accompanied by the enterprising attempting to use a variety of "scientific" therapies to restore masculine vigor. Hormone research led both quacks and scientists to implant monkey glands and goat testicles in some men and to carry out vasectomies on others (including Freud and Yeats) with the futile promise of "rejuvenation." The public appeared to be well aware of these practices. Novelists such as Arthur Conan Doyle and Italo Svevo noted the role of the ductless glands in bringing about "rejuvenation." In "You Can’t Do What My Last Man Did" blues artist Ethel Waters sang about her new lover’s need for such assistance while bartenders concocted "monkey gland cocktails."

A time-line of Robin Williams’ career.

The list is up. It’s certainly a talented crew. I presume all these lawyers defend the illegal use of torture. I guess we should be relieved John Yoo isn’t on it.

The tax-fairness debate continues.