cheese it, the cops!

the meaning of beer

if you want american culture's deepest take on human meaning, you have to deal with the beer advertising of the anheuser-busch corporation. "this is what i believe in, when the day is done. this is budweiser." michelob amber bock: "it's everything you want to be."

79 game show hopefuls die in stadium stampede horror

can't do much better than that.

well, jane was defeated by the incumbent, governor ian smith. thanks for your support, though!

final push

so, jane sartwell was on absolutely mindy last night giving her (expertly edited by mindy) campaign speech. very hilarious. the election's over this evening. so if you haven't voted (since wednesday's primary), vote. once! at absolutelymindy.com

equal time

headbomb

yo. tough shit:

please please please

if you vote at absolutelymindy.com, vote once!!

guardian

you want to read this, demonstrating the real foolishness and duplicity with which we got into iraq.

sheehan

so you've probably seen this, but just in case.

apple of my eye

as this piece about frey etc  shows, anne applebaum is wonderful. quite a bit more depth of thought and knowledge than most.

yay!

janie made the final five for gov of coliflordia. she thanks you for your suport. and you can vote again in the general election: results friday. vote at absolutelymindy.com.

coliflordia update

actually, they're taking votes up until  6:30 pm. vote once only!

vote or die

so please, if you haven't, vote for jane sartwell (my 5-year-old baby) for governor of the great state of coliflordia at absolutelymindy.com. she'd make a great gov, if i - her father and her karl rove - do say so. they're gonna announce the final five today on the absolutely mindy radio show on xm kids; all votes must be in by 3 pm eastern.

new columnists

sarah vowell has a "voice," but no point of view. there is a generic liberal opinion back there but no reasons for it and no passion about it. it's as though bridget jones had an op-ed column. if you want to see how you might be amusing while simultaneously saying something, try this from joel stein.

people's republic of microsoft

actually, it's getting harder to distinguish microsoft from the government of china.