<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120</id><updated>2011-04-21T23:56:57.385-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Rubber Biscuit</title><subtitle type='html'>What do you want for nothing?</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>99</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-114925551424652311</id><published>2006-06-02T08:37:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2006-06-02T08:40:40.123-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Milwaukee's Best find's its niche</title><summary type='text'>Found at Screenhead.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/114925551424652311/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=114925551424652311' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/114925551424652311'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/114925551424652311'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2006/06/milwaukees-best-finds-its-niche.html' title='Milwaukee&apos;s Best find&apos;s its niche'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-114010732886168153</id><published>2006-02-16T10:26:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-02-16T10:28:48.873-06:00</updated><title type='text'>On Paris Hilton</title><summary type='text'>Probably not the first time she's gotten a face-full of white stuff.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/114010732886168153/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=114010732886168153' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/114010732886168153'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/114010732886168153'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2006/02/on-paris-hilton.html' title='On Paris Hilton'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-113687115484296990</id><published>2006-01-09T23:18:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-01-09T23:32:34.863-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Profiles in Chutzpah</title><summary type='text'>Sen. Kennedy to Publish Children's BookNEW YORK - Meet the latest children's author, Sen. Ted Kennedy, and his Portuguese Water Dog, Splash, his co-protagonist in "My Senator and Me: A Dogs-Eye View of Washington, D.C."Scholastic Inc. will release the book in May."I am very excited about the opportunity to create a book for young readers and their families that will deepen their understanding of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/113687115484296990/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=113687115484296990' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/113687115484296990'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/113687115484296990'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2006/01/profiles-in-chutzpah.html' title='Profiles in Chutzpah'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-113656701425087649</id><published>2006-01-06T10:52:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2006-01-06T11:03:34.260-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Suggested Rhymes: deep, keep, creep, weep</title><summary type='text'>...and the race is on to see which country-western singer will be the first to record "I just went to sleep".</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/113656701425087649/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=113656701425087649' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/113656701425087649'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/113656701425087649'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2006/01/suggested-rhymes-deep-keep-creep-weep.html' title='Suggested Rhymes: deep, keep, creep, weep'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-111703360841291637</id><published>2005-05-25T10:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2005-05-25T10:06:48.416-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Alta Vista has a sense of humor...</title><summary type='text'>Sex with a lonely woman</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/111703360841291637/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=111703360841291637' title='20 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/111703360841291637'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/111703360841291637'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2005/05/alta-vista-has-sense-of-humor.html' title='Alta Vista has a sense of humor...'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>20</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110580130446388846</id><published>2005-01-03T16:37:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2005-01-15T09:01:44.463-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Gentle Reader,</title><summary type='text'>Posting has been, and will continue to be, very light for the next few weeks.  Readers are encouraged to assume that I am doing important and exciting things.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110580130446388846/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110580130446388846' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110580130446388846'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110580130446388846'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2005/01/gentle-reader.html' title='Gentle Reader,'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110347424486160406</id><published>2004-12-19T10:15:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-19T10:37:24.860-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Powerline named TIME Magazine's "Blog of the Year"</title><summary type='text'>I'd like to think that this is indisputable proof of the mainstream media's acceptance that blogs are legitimate vehicles for news and opinion, but I suspect the editors of TIME Magazine are just smart enough to understand the financial rewards and cultural cachet to be realized by throwing a few meaty tablescraps to the hounds. Can't wait to see what Nick Coleman has to say about this...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110347424486160406/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110347424486160406' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110347424486160406'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110347424486160406'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/12/powerline-named-time-magazines-blog-of.html' title='Powerline named TIME Magazine&apos;s &quot;Blog of the Year&quot;'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110329979936207270</id><published>2004-12-17T10:06:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-17T10:09:59.363-06:00</updated><title type='text'>You're gonna want that cow bell</title><summary type='text'>"When this is over, you'll all be wearing gold-plated diapers." (requires Windows Media Player)Seen here, along with Mr. Walken's recipe for zucchini linguine.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110329979936207270/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110329979936207270' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110329979936207270'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110329979936207270'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/12/youre-gonna-want-that-cow-bell.html' title='You&apos;re gonna want that cow bell'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110296067544985202</id><published>2004-12-13T11:54:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-14T19:00:25.620-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>It's not too late to vote against Fahrenheit 9/11 in this year's People's Choice Awards.Update: Well, now it really is too late.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110296067544985202/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110296067544985202' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110296067544985202'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110296067544985202'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/12/its-not-too-late-to-vote-against.html' title=''/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110287089213865561</id><published>2004-12-12T10:47:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-12T11:01:32.136-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Brave New Frontiers in Child Psychology</title><summary type='text'>Parents Go on Strike, Move to Front YardENTERPRISE, Fla. - The dishes, garbage and dirty laundry would pile up for days when Cat and Harlan Barnard's teenage children refused to do their chores. So the Barnards went on strike, moving out of their house and into a domed tent set up in their front driveway. The parents refuse to cook, clean or drive for their children — Benjamin, 17, and Kit, 12 </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110287089213865561/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110287089213865561' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110287089213865561'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110287089213865561'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/12/brave-new-frontiers-in-child.html' title='Brave New Frontiers in Child Psychology'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110269912474386293</id><published>2004-12-10T10:37:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-10T11:18:44.743-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Can you hear them?  They're talking 'bout us.</title><summary type='text'>Scientist: Prairie Dogs Have Own LanguageBy TANIA SOUSSANALBUQUERQUE, N.M. - Prairie dogs, those little pups popping in and out of holes on vacant lots and rural rangeland, are talking up a storm. They have different "words" for tall human in yellow shirt, short human in green shirt, coyote, deer, red-tailed hawk and many other creatures.They can even coin new terms for things they've never</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110269912474386293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110269912474386293' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110269912474386293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110269912474386293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/12/can-you-hear-them-theyre-talking-bout.html' title='Can you hear them?  They&apos;re talking &apos;bout us.'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110243301200428321</id><published>2004-12-07T09:20:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-07T09:23:32.006-06:00</updated><title type='text'>On the gratuitous use of adjectives</title><summary type='text'>Saudis Probe Daring Qaeda Attack on U.S. MissionIs 'daring' really necessary?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110243301200428321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110243301200428321' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110243301200428321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110243301200428321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/12/on-gratuitous-use-of-adjectives.html' title='On the gratuitous use of adjectives'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-110011056714354228</id><published>2004-11-10T11:38:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-11T09:10:07.616-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Blue State Blues</title><summary type='text'>From yesterday's Washington Times:"Some would say, 'Oh, poor Alabama. It's cut off from the wealth infusion that it gets from New York and California,' " said Lawrence O'Donnell, a veteran Democratic insider and now senior political analyst at MSNBC. "But the more this political condition goes on at the presidential level of the red and blue states, the more you're testing the inclination of the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/110011056714354228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=110011056714354228' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110011056714354228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/110011056714354228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/blue-state-blues.html' title='Blue State Blues'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109993017171836100</id><published>2004-11-08T08:52:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-01T10:27:14.530-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Bible-Clutching Red-State Fatties (UNEDITED)</title><summary type='text'>As part of a much-needed brain-dump, this post is presented unedited, unfinished, untimely, and unworthy. But now that it's out there, I can move on to other things. -fxbThe Red State/Blue State divide is getting a lot of play these days, as Democrats and Liberals struggle to explain Sen. Kerry's failed presidential bid. This thread, posted at the Thomas Pynchon mailing list, caught my </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109993017171836100/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109993017171836100' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109993017171836100'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109993017171836100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/bible-clutching-red-state-fatties.html' title='Bible-Clutching Red-State Fatties (UNEDITED)'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109967082174959356</id><published>2004-11-05T09:45:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-05T10:07:01.750-06:00</updated><title type='text'>The Progressive Public Relations Machine...</title><summary type='text'>...is spitting out wheels and cogs as moonbats shift into overdrive to pin Sen. Kerry's loss on something other than their failure to effectively package their ideology.Novelist Jane Smiley takes up the "Fuck Middle America" theme. Ignorance and bloodlust have a long tradition in the United States, especially in the red states. There used to be a kind of hand-to-hand fight on the frontier </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109967082174959356/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109967082174959356' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109967082174959356'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109967082174959356'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/progressive-public-relations-machine.html' title='The Progressive Public Relations Machine...'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109965855355599656</id><published>2004-11-05T06:42:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-05T06:47:12.483-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Note to Democrats:</title><summary type='text'> You may wish to reconsider this campaign tactic as you prepare for 2008.More great pictures at zombietime.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109965855355599656/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109965855355599656' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109965855355599656'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109965855355599656'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/note-to-democrats.html' title='Note to Democrats:'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109960142044378246</id><published>2004-11-04T14:40:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-12-01T10:31:12.563-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Politics for Paranoids (UNEDITED)</title><summary type='text'>As part of a much-needed brain-dump, this post is presented unedited, unfinished, untimely, and unworthy. In the interval between the conception of this idea and the present, far better bloggers have done a far better job of saying exactly the same thing.  More or less.  But now that it's out there, I can move on to other things. -fxbTaking a brief survey of political web logs one senses an </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109960142044378246/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109960142044378246' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109960142044378246'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109960142044378246'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/politics-for-paranoids-unedited.html' title='Politics for Paranoids (UNEDITED)'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109954168052658897</id><published>2004-11-03T22:02:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-04T10:36:11.770-06:00</updated><title type='text'>There's a new lesbian sherrif in town</title><summary type='text'>As part of an ongoing effort to serve our growing lesbian readership, we here at the Biscuit spend hours sifting through the news looking for inspirational stories of lesbians reaching new heights in public service.Hispanic Lesbian Makes History in Dallas PollDallas County, the home to some of the biggest conservative supporters of President Bush, made history Tuesday night by electing an </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109954168052658897/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109954168052658897' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109954168052658897'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109954168052658897'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/theres-new-lesbian-sherrif-in-town.html' title='There&apos;s a new lesbian sherrif in town'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109952178362778819</id><published>2004-11-03T16:43:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-03T19:31:42.473-06:00</updated><title type='text'>1000 Words</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109952178362778819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109952178362778819' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109952178362778819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109952178362778819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/1000-words.html' title='1000 Words'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109948804015201265</id><published>2004-11-03T06:40:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-03T07:20:40.153-06:00</updated><title type='text'>Send in the Clowns</title><summary type='text'>“It’s been a long night. We’ve waited four years for this victory, we can wait one more night. Tonight, John and I are so proud of all of you who are here with us and all of you across the country who have stood with us in this campaign. John Kerry and I made a promise to the American people that with this election, every vote would count and every vote would be counted. Thank you. Tonight, we </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109948804015201265/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109948804015201265' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109948804015201265'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109948804015201265'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/send-in-clowns.html' title='Send in the Clowns'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109948396719439031</id><published>2004-11-03T06:12:00.000-06:00</published><updated>2004-11-03T06:14:29.256-06:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Don't let the door hit you on the way out, Sen. Daschle.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109948396719439031/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109948396719439031' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109948396719439031'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109948396719439031'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/11/dont-let-door-hit-you-on-way-out-sen.html' title=''/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109916905950306221</id><published>2004-10-30T15:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-30T16:18:05.326-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Local readers will understand.Everyone else should go here for the backstory.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109916905950306221/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109916905950306221' title='16 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109916905950306221'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109916905950306221'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/local-readers-will-understand.html' title=''/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>16</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109899493617145511</id><published>2004-10-28T15:12:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-28T16:02:46.083-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oops... backpedal</title><summary type='text'>From a recent speech by John Forbes Kerry: This morning, we learned more disturbing news about the disappearance of 380 tons of powerful explosives in Iraq. We already know these weapons could produce bombs that can demolish entire buildings… blow up airplanes… destroy tanks… and kill our troops. Terrorists used explosives like this to take down Pan Am 103 and al Qaeda used it to attack the USS </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109899493617145511/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109899493617145511' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109899493617145511'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109899493617145511'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/oops-backpedal.html' title='Oops... backpedal'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109887864440889421</id><published>2004-10-27T06:39:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-30T16:03:05.140-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The New and Improved 9/11 (Now with more Respect!)</title><summary type='text'>Many have charged the present administration with callously politicizing 9/11, as if the attacks on New York and Washington D.C. were profoundly sacred events whose sanctity can only be sullied by Bush's grubby paws. While Bush and Co. have maintained their position thatSeptember the 11th was a horrible day for our nation, and we must never forget the lessons of September the 11th.... One of the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109887864440889421/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109887864440889421' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109887864440889421'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109887864440889421'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/new-and-improved-911-now-with-more.html' title='The New and Improved 9/11 (Now with more Respect!)'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109863686712203325</id><published>2004-10-24T11:23:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-24T11:54:27.123-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Truth about Nuance</title><summary type='text'>Secret Weapon for Bush?By JOHN TIERNEYTo Bush-bashers, it may be the most infuriating revelation yet from the military records of the two presidential candidates: the young George W. Bush probably had a higher I.Q. than did the young John Kerry.That, at least, is the conclusion of Steve Sailer, a conservative columnist at the Web magazine Vdare.com and a veteran student of presidential I.Q.'</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109863686712203325/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109863686712203325' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109863686712203325'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109863686712203325'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/truth-about-nuance.html' title='The Truth about Nuance'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109859195461665120</id><published>2004-10-23T23:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-24T09:35:28.840-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Amazing Discoveries, Teenage Lesbian Edition</title><summary type='text'>Here at the Rubber Biscuit, we're always looking for ways to serve our rapidly expanding teenage lesbian audience, or those audience members who have teenage lesbians in their families.As part of that commitment to the teenage lesbian community, we spend hours scouring the internet for news-stories about teenage lesbians or important information pertaining to the lives of teenage lesbians and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109859195461665120/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109859195461665120' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109859195461665120'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109859195461665120'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/amazing-discoveries-teenage-lesbian.html' title='Amazing Discoveries, Teenage Lesbian Edition'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109856974640264520</id><published>2004-10-23T17:01:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-23T17:15:46.403-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Amazing Discoveries</title><summary type='text'>Scientists at the Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painstakingly Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious (a moment of silence for Douglas Adams, please) have spared no expense in determining the historical correlation between good looks and getting laid. Handsome men evolved thanks to picky femalesMale primates may have sacrificed their long faces and aggressive teeth for more placid looks to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109856974640264520/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109856974640264520' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109856974640264520'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109856974640264520'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/amazing-discoveries.html' title='Amazing Discoveries'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109841723809262632</id><published>2004-10-21T22:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-21T22:53:58.093-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cetacean-Americans lose landmark legal battle</title><summary type='text'>When you consider what passes for rational thought these days...Court Says Whales, Dolphins Cannot Sue BushA three-judge panel of the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, widely considered one of the most liberal and activist in the country, said it saw no reason why animals should not be allowed to sue but said they had not yet been granted that right....you have to wonder what</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109841723809262632/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109841723809262632' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109841723809262632'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109841723809262632'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/cetacean-americans-lose-landmark-legal.html' title='Cetacean-Americans lose landmark legal battle'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109807281072390626</id><published>2004-10-17T22:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-17T23:19:13.656-05:00</updated><title type='text'>1984 Reconsidered as the Age of Enlightenment</title><summary type='text'>I'm frequently forced to consider my own age (and, consequently, mortality) when I find myself trying to explain pop cultural references to my students who, up until recently, had never heard ofAtariMagnum P.I.The Pink PantherGlasnostThe Iran-Contra Affair (and, thus, Ollie North)andSpuds McKenzieThe list is growing.To make matters worse, one freshman recently referred to "some old movie" her </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109807281072390626/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109807281072390626' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109807281072390626'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109807281072390626'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/1984-reconsidered-as-age-of.html' title='1984 Reconsidered as the Age of Enlightenment'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109806631670242228</id><published>2004-10-17T21:14:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-25T07:13:24.133-05:00</updated><title type='text'>John Kerry and the Spirit of Innovation</title><summary type='text'>John Kerry recently declared his vision for the future of science and innovation under his administration. It is wrong to tell scientists that they can’t cross the frontiers of new knowledge. It is wrong morally and it is wrong economically. When I am president, we will change this policy – and we will lead the world in stem cell research.Or to put it another way: Anything goes! Once again, today</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109806631670242228/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109806631670242228' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109806631670242228'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109806631670242228'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/john-kerry-and-spirit-of-innovation.html' title='John Kerry and the Spirit of Innovation'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109803757230290867</id><published>2004-10-17T13:24:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-17T13:28:19.850-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Note to Self:</title><summary type='text'>Eat at Hardee's.Some thoughts here.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109803757230290867/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109803757230290867' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109803757230290867'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109803757230290867'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/note-to-self.html' title='Note to Self:'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109794647125252129</id><published>2004-10-16T10:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-16T12:21:42.230-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Michael Moore Presents</title><summary type='text'>But then that was precisely the goal of the whole enterprise: to uproot the species spiritually to the point of no return; for how else can you build a genuinely new society? You start neither with the foundations, nor with the roof: you start by making new bricks. --Joseph Brodsky The Teacher's Guide to Fahrenheit 9/11Now that Fahrenheit 9/11 is available on DVD, what better way to ensure the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109794647125252129/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109794647125252129' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109794647125252129'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109794647125252129'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/michael-moore-presents.html' title='Michael Moore Presents'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109786007287403887</id><published>2004-10-14T11:28:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-22T23:20:14.990-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Other things stem cells can do</title><summary type='text'>"We will do stem cell research. We will stop juvenile diabetes, Parkinson's, Alzheimer's, social anxiety disorder, dissociative identity disorder, post-traumatic stress-disorder, Munchausen-by-proxy syndrome, Tsutsugumushi fever and other debilitating diseases.America just lost a great champion for this cause in Christopher Reeve. People like Chris Reeve will get out of their wheelchairs and </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109786007287403887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109786007287403887' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109786007287403887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109786007287403887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/other-things-stem-cells-can-do.html' title='Other things stem cells can do'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109766970438836271</id><published>2004-10-13T07:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-24T11:56:02.286-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Wrong Water in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time</title><summary type='text'>More strangeness from the NYT Magazine's interview with Kerry:On an evening in August, just after a campaign swing through the Southwest, Kerry and I met, for the second of three conversations about terrorism and national security, in a hotel room overlooking the Ferris wheel on the Santa Monica pier. A row of Evian water bottles had been thoughtfully placed on a nearby table. Kerry frowned.'</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109766970438836271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109766970438836271' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109766970438836271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109766970438836271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/wrong-water-in-wrong-place-at-wrong.html' title='The Wrong Water in the Wrong Place at the Wrong Time'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109758990785091826</id><published>2004-10-12T08:36:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-24T11:55:24.650-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Criminal Acts</title><summary type='text'>Connect the dots: Cheney: Kerry Victory Is RiskyDemocrats Decry Talk as Scare TacticCOLUMBIA, Mo., Sept. 7 -- Vice President Cheney warned on Tuesday that if John F. Kerry is elected, "the danger is that we'll get hit again" by terrorists, as the Bush campaign escalated a furious assault on the Democratic presidential nominee that has kept Kerry from gaining control of the election debate.In</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109758990785091826/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109758990785091826' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109758990785091826'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109758990785091826'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/criminal-acts.html' title='Criminal Acts'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109749671167932755</id><published>2004-10-11T06:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-11T07:11:51.680-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Can you feel the love?</title><summary type='text'>This article (via Allah) is interesting. Joe Trippi, Howard Dean's former campaign manager, argues that the Dean campaign has already pushed the Democratic Party -- and thereby the national political debate -- to the left.Speaking in May to an auditorium of cheering activists from MoveOn and kindred organizations, at a conference titled "What We Stand For," Trippi said, "The Democrats weren't </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109749671167932755/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109749671167932755' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109749671167932755'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109749671167932755'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/can-you-feel-love.html' title='Can you feel the love?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109724508709091853</id><published>2004-10-08T08:34:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-09T10:13:43.993-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Angry Democrat Pornography</title><summary type='text'>This ad is the brainchild of a newly formed 527 group here in Minnesota, GeorgeTheMenace.org. Judging by the lack of additional content on their web site, they're just getting started--but the future holds many pleasant surprises. Threat Level Fashions? What could that be? Reckless Recipes? Code Red Family Activities? I can't wait to see what these bright young upstarts do once they've gotten the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109724508709091853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109724508709091853' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109724508709091853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109724508709091853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/angry-democrat-pornography.html' title='Angry Democrat Pornography'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109707722035353510</id><published>2004-10-06T09:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-06T16:08:45.140-05:00</updated><title type='text'>An unpleasant surprise in my mailbox</title><summary type='text'>The following e-mail was waiting for me this morning like a turd in a punch-bowl. Observe how a lukewarm call to protest quickly reveals itself as an obviously illegal Ponzi-style chain letter supported by the ravings of an obviously delusional, hard-core socialist moonbat.Dear Friend:Appended below is an open letter that is currently being circulated by the Radical Caucus of the Modern </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109707722035353510/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109707722035353510' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109707722035353510'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109707722035353510'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/unpleasant-surprise-in-my-mailbox.html' title='An unpleasant surprise in my mailbox'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109699290603584494</id><published>2004-10-05T10:04:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-11T11:27:36.543-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Elephant v. Tick</title><summary type='text'>It shames me to admit that this column by Nick Coleman escaped my attention when it first appeared last week. Much of the column has already been picked over by other, better blogs--but what little meat remains on Coleman's bones may provide just enough sustenance for a humble "hobby hack" like me. So, how is it that nakedly partisan bloggers who make things up left and right are gaining street </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109699290603584494/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109699290603584494' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109699290603584494'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109699290603584494'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/elephant-v-tick.html' title='Elephant v. Tick'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109689206511790613</id><published>2004-10-04T06:57:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-04T09:59:57.653-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Kerry prepares to unleash bi-racial legal team</title><summary type='text'>From a recent campaign speech by John Kerry:There is another fundamental choice in this election. My friends, we are hearing the same things you are hearing. What they did in Florida in 2000, they are in the process of doing in battleground states all across this country this year. Let me make one thing clear: We’re not going to stand by and allow African American votes to go uncounted in this </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109689206511790613/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109689206511790613' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109689206511790613'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109689206511790613'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/kerry-prepares-to-unleash-bi-racial.html' title='Kerry prepares to unleash bi-racial legal team'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109675646954376810</id><published>2004-10-02T16:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-04T06:41:26.360-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Demographic catastrophe</title><summary type='text'>Hallelujah! At last our French overlords have intervened and put an end to the genocide in Darfur!How did they do it?They've called it something else.Darfur violence is "demographic catastrophe": studyPARIS (AFP) - The only detailed study into the toll from the violence in Sudan's Darfur region says fleeing families continued to suffer grievous losses after they arrived in displacement </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109675646954376810/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109675646954376810' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109675646954376810'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109675646954376810'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/10/demographic-catastrophe.html' title='Demographic catastrophe'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109647759219404437</id><published>2004-09-29T13:00:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-29T19:16:35.023-05:00</updated><title type='text'>A Letter to CBS News</title><summary type='text'>Richard Schlesinger's recent report on unsubstantiated rumors of plans to revive the draft (The Issues: Reviving the Draft) was journalism at its finest: socially conscious, unafraid, unyeilding, and REAL--notwithstanding its creative manipulation of the details. Bravo to CBS News for refusing to back down from its pro-Kerry stance in the face of mounting evidence of journalistic fraud. And </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109647759219404437/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109647759219404437' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109647759219404437'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109647759219404437'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/letter-to-cbs-news.html' title='A Letter to CBS News'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109630358357046687</id><published>2004-09-27T11:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-27T11:46:23.576-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Dispatch from the End of Reality</title><summary type='text'>No time to go into this right now, so I'll have to let the article stand on its own.Video Game Let Players Command Kerry Swift BoatSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - A video game company hopes to cash in on the publicity surrounding Sen. John Kerry's Vietnam service by sending players on a simulation of the Swift Boat mission that won the Democratic presidential candidate the Silver Star. Playing as </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109630358357046687/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109630358357046687' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109630358357046687'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109630358357046687'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/dispatch-from-end-of-reality.html' title='Dispatch from the End of Reality'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109629877167408934</id><published>2004-09-27T10:09:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-11-08T10:15:11.143-06:00</updated><title type='text'>More on the End of Reality</title><summary type='text'>In an earlier post, I remarked that CBS News "fake but accurate" defense of the Rathergate fiasco suggested something greater than mere chutzpah. In effect, CBS News now stakes its journalistic reputation on the baffling proposition that the authenticity of evidence is irrelevant to the accuracy of a story. What's more, the story remains "true", in Dan Rather's sense of the word, as long as the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109629877167408934/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109629877167408934' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109629877167408934'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109629877167408934'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/more-on-end-of-reality.html' title='More on &lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;e End of Reality'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109604596175272607</id><published>2004-09-24T11:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-24T12:12:41.753-05:00</updated><title type='text'>More Diplomatic Nuance</title><summary type='text'>John Kerry's diplomatic brilliance continues to confuse and baffle those few of us too feeble-minded to grasp his nuanced worldview. In a speech at Temple University, Kerry, once again, drew a sharp distinction between his diplomatic objectives and the President's. Instead of bringing the world together against the terrorists… the President alienated the countries whose help we need to defeat </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109604596175272607/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109604596175272607' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109604596175272607'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109604596175272607'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/more-diplomatic-nuance.html' title='More Diplomatic Nuance'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109596549960834310</id><published>2004-09-23T13:58:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-23T14:20:04.750-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Respected in the world</title><summary type='text'>Continuing to demonstrate the kind of diplomatic prowess certain to ensure France's much-needed assistance in the so-called "War on Terror," John F. Kerry has been hard at work belittling and demoralizing Bush's "Coalition of the Willing." Now he's setting his sights on Iyad Allawi, Iraq's interim prime minister.Kerry: Allawi's Take on Iraq UnrealisticShortly after Allawi, the interim </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109596549960834310/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109596549960834310' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109596549960834310'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109596549960834310'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/respected-in-world.html' title='Respected in the world'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109577953727905977</id><published>2004-09-23T10:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-23T12:19:23.806-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Adventures in Fundraising</title><summary type='text'>Note to John Kerry: There's a check for $1003.00 in Inver Grove Heights, MN that's just waiting to be endorsed.More Adventures in Fundrasing:AP: Kerry Fund-Raisers Met With S. KoreanKey passages: WASHINGTON - A South Korean man who met with John Kerry (news - web sites)'s fund-raisers to discuss creating a new political group for Korean-Americans was an intelligence agent for his country, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109577953727905977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109577953727905977' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109577953727905977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109577953727905977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/adventures-in-fundraising.html' title='Adventures in Fundraising'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109542270779884824</id><published>2004-09-17T06:41:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-18T15:56:20.273-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What Liberal Media?</title><summary type='text'>U.S. Weapons Inspector: Iraq Had No WMDBy KATHERINE PFLEGER SHRADER, Associated Press WriterWASHINGTON - Fallen Iraqi President Saddam Hussein did not have stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, but left signs that he had idle programs he someday hoped to revive, the top U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq concludes in a draft report due out soon.According to people familiar with the 1,500-</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109542270779884824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109542270779884824' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109542270779884824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109542270779884824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/what-liberal-media.html' title='What Liberal Media?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109534672549976860</id><published>2004-09-16T09:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-20T07:01:22.946-05:00</updated><title type='text'>When the party's over...</title><summary type='text'>Last week, I wondered whether or not the Democratic party could survive a victory in November. It seems increasingly likely that the answer to that question is 'no.'NOBODY LIKES HIM Okay, so this was written by Dick Morris, so it should be taken with a grain of salt. Nonetheless, several details are worth noting. For example, Kerry is now seen unfavorably by a record 44 percent of the voters (</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109534672549976860/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109534672549976860' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109534672549976860'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109534672549976860'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/when-partys-over.html' title='When the party&apos;s over...'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109524924815078400</id><published>2004-09-15T06:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-19T12:56:54.416-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Welcome to the End of Reality</title><summary type='text'>I haven't had anything to say about Rathergate because so many others have the time and resources to present "expert opinions." To be certain, both sides of the "authenticity" debate have their facts, their experts, and their interpretations. And the multiplication of analyses and refutations--combined with the anonymity and speed with which stories develop on the Internet--makes it so difficult </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109524924815078400/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109524924815078400' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109524924815078400'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109524924815078400'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/welcome-to-end-of-reality.html' title='Welcome to &lt;sup&gt;th&lt;/sup&gt;e End of Reality'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109517520306886361</id><published>2004-09-14T10:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-14T10:29:23.620-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Communicable diseases? Communists? </title><summary type='text'>U.S. Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry salutes the audience before speaking in support of the ban on assault weapons at the Thurgood Marshall Center in Washington, DC September 13, 2004. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder) No word on what specific branch of the military Kerry was addressing, here.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109517520306886361/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109517520306886361' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109517520306886361'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109517520306886361'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/communicable-diseases-communists.html' title='Communicable diseases? Communists? '/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109507785483276481</id><published>2004-09-13T07:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-13T09:54:49.576-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Does the ACLU know, yet?</title><summary type='text'>Schwarzenegger outlaws sex with corpsesSAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Having sex with corpses is now officially illegal in California after Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a bill barring necrophilia, a spokeswoman says.The new legislation marks the culmination of a two-year drive to outlaw necrophilia in the state and will help prosecutors who have been stymied by the lack of an official ban</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109507785483276481/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109507785483276481' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109507785483276481'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109507785483276481'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/does-aclu-know-yet.html' title='Does the ACLU know, yet?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109507732246511677</id><published>2004-09-13T06:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-13T07:09:23.566-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Disgusting New Frontiers in Science!</title><summary type='text'>Company Making Fake Urine for ResearchLENEXA, Kan. - Synthetic urine, which sounds like something more likely to generate snickers than sales, is turning into a small success for a Kansas company..."We have been very blessed with this," said Dyches, who handles finances and marketing for the three-person company, discreetly tucked away in a suburban Kansas City office park. "It was pretty </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109507732246511677/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109507732246511677' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109507732246511677'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109507732246511677'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/disgusting-new-frontiers-in-science.html' title='Disgusting New Frontiers in Science!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109478641321273442</id><published>2004-09-09T22:11:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-12T22:07:43.080-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Hottest Place in Hell</title><summary type='text'>I tried to fit this into an earlier post, but just couldn't work it in smoothly. Here sighs and cries and wails coiled and recoiledon the starless air, spilling my soul to tears.A confusion of tongues and monstrous accents toiledin pain and anger. Voices hoarse and shrilland sounds of blows, all intermingled, raisedtumult and pandemonium that stillwhirls on the air forever dirty with it</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109478641321273442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109478641321273442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109478641321273442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109478641321273442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/hottest-place-in-hell.html' title='The Hottest Place in Hell'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109478366317452977</id><published>2004-09-09T21:32:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-09T21:36:27.296-05:00</updated><title type='text'>You gotta have faith</title><summary type='text'>"I don't wear my own faith on my sleeve..." In a tough speech to the National Baptist Convention, Kerry said Bush "traffics in the politics of division" and likened him to the two men in the Biblical story of the Good Samaritan who passed by a robbed and beaten man."It is clear: for four years George W. Bush may have talked about compassion but he's walked right by. He's seen people in need </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109478366317452977/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109478366317452977' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109478366317452977'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109478366317452977'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/you-gotta-have-faith.html' title='You gotta have faith'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109475835004403142</id><published>2004-09-09T21:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-09T22:10:01.786-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Will Democrats respect themselves in the morning? pt. 2</title><summary type='text'>Read Part 1 first.For the Democrats to "take back America" in November, Kerry's accomplices must continue to draw the sharp contrast between the good Kerry and the evil Bush. They can't win without a scapegoat. They must continue to characterize Bush and the Republicans as vile, treacherous subhuman scum.Garrison Keillor knows that. Keillor's hatred is particularly illuminating, coming as it </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109475835004403142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109475835004403142' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109475835004403142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109475835004403142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/will-democrats-respect-themselves-in_09.html' title='Will Democrats respect themselves in the morning? pt. 2'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109477048177617007</id><published>2004-09-09T17:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-09T17:59:18.930-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What the fuck happened to Al Gore?</title><summary type='text'>Former vice president Al Gore (news - web sites) addresses a rally in the Philadelphia suburb of Narberth, Pa., Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004. In Pittsburgh earlier, Gore said Vice President Dick Cheney (news - web sites)'s remark that 'the wrong choice' by voters could result in another terrorist attack was 'a sleazy and despicable effort to blackmail voters with fear.' (AP Photo/George Widman)</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109477048177617007/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109477048177617007' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109477048177617007'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109477048177617007'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/what-fuck-happened-to-al-gore.html' title='What the fuck happened to Al Gore?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109435323671623017</id><published>2004-09-08T21:13:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-10T09:53:27.456-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Will Democrats respect themselves in the morning? pt. 1</title><summary type='text'>I don't get too many visitors here at the Biscuit, but if anybody bothers to stop by in the next few days, I'd be interested in an answer to this question: Can the left survive a victory in November?Back in May, Glenn Reynolds wrote:I think it's fair to say that if Kerry wins, he'll win based on anti-Bush sentiment among Democrats and swing voters. But although the anybody-but-Bush vote might </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109435323671623017/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109435323671623017' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109435323671623017'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109435323671623017'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/will-democrats-respect-themselves-in.html' title='Will Democrats respect themselves in the morning? pt. 1'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109449582467451271</id><published>2004-09-06T13:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-16T10:15:50.366-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Trouble with Nuance</title><summary type='text'>Less than a month ago, John Kerry reaffirmed his pre-war vote authorizing the War in Iraq.  Kerry stands by vote on Iraq war. GRAND CANYON, Ariz. (AP) - Responding to President Bush's question with several of his own, Sen. John Kerry said Monday that he would have voted to authorize the war in Iraq knowing what he does now but that he would have used the power more effectively than the current </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109449582467451271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109449582467451271' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109449582467451271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109449582467451271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/trouble-with-nuance.html' title='The Trouble with Nuance'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109432892365181032</id><published>2004-09-04T14:54:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-04T15:28:25.713-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Protest Art or Gynecological Diagnosis?</title><summary type='text'>The left has eroticized its hatred for George W. Bush, aided by Whoopie Goldberg's rant earlier this summer which, although not the progenitor of the all-too-obvious bush-joke, certainly legitimized that line of political discourse.This is the culmination of that rhetoric, although it may just be a medical condition.As if that weren't bad enough, there's this inadvertently complimentary </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109432892365181032/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109432892365181032' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109432892365181032'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109432892365181032'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/protest-art-or-gynecological-diagnosis.html' title='Protest Art or Gynecological Diagnosis?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109401540788875423</id><published>2004-09-01T23:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-04T14:40:07.853-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Friends in Low Places</title><summary type='text'>Is it just me, or does this sound like another celebrity endorsement for Kerry? Iran Ready to Provide Nuke 'Guarantees'TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Saturday it would continue its nuclear program but provide "guarantees" not to build atomic weapons, and warned Washington it cannot stabilize neighboring Iraq and Afghanistan without Tehran's help.This story neglects to mention all of the help that Iran</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109401540788875423/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109401540788875423' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109401540788875423'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109401540788875423'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/09/friends-in-low-places.html' title='Friends in Low Places'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109388012223751237</id><published>2004-08-30T09:55:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-30T10:36:38.513-05:00</updated><title type='text'>John Edwards, Boy Detective</title><summary type='text'>Kerry Would Offer Special Iran Deal, Says Boy DetectiveIDAVILLE (Reuters) - If elected U.S. president, Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) would offer Bugs Meany a deal allowing him to keep his nuclear power plants if he gave up the right to retain bomb-making nuclear fuel, said Kerry's vice presidential running mate in an interview published on Monday. Sen. Leroy "Encyclopedia" Brown told The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109388012223751237/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109388012223751237' title='7 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109388012223751237'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109388012223751237'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/john-edwards-boy-detective.html' title='John Edwards, Boy Detective'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>7</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109371111249437064</id><published>2004-08-28T11:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-28T11:38:32.493-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>...and stranger...</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109371111249437064/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109371111249437064' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109371111249437064'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109371111249437064'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/blog-post.html' title=''/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109371069001238103</id><published>2004-08-28T10:56:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-30T10:44:46.346-05:00</updated><title type='text'>AP Fumbles, Reuters Recovers</title><summary type='text'>Two Arrested in Alleged Subway Bomb PlotBy TOM HAYS, Associated Press WriterNEW YORK - Two men have been arrested in connection with an alleged plot to bomb a subway station in midtown Manhattan, sources said early Saturday.At least one of the men may have an affiliation with a terrorist organization, according to two law enforcement sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The sources </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109371069001238103/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109371069001238103' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109371069001238103'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109371069001238103'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/ap-fumbles-reuters-recovers.html' title='AP Fumbles, Reuters Recovers'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109361751155754823</id><published>2004-08-27T09:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-27T09:50:44.956-05:00</updated><title type='text'>I Loved him in "Benson"</title><summary type='text'>  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109361751155754823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109361751155754823' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109361751155754823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109361751155754823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/i-loved-him-in-benson.html' title='I Loved him in &quot;Benson&quot;'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109358802546787315</id><published>2004-08-27T01:27:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-27T23:09:40.766-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Kerry just gets stranger and stranger every day.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109358802546787315/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109358802546787315' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109358802546787315'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109358802546787315'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/kerry-just-gets-stranger-and-stranger.html' title=''/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109340519334681104</id><published>2004-08-27T01:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-27T01:30:09.853-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Oops, JB Doubtless Did It Again!</title><summary type='text'>Somebody at Fraters Libertas found this. And now JB Doubtless, who was recently credited by the Evangelical Outpost for having written "the most accurate and profound three sentences I’ve ever read on pop music criticism," has checked in with the Biscuit (and I was blessedly unaware of the Laura Billings comment when I named this blog).Naturally, you are missing the point, as most </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109340519334681104/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109340519334681104' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109340519334681104'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109340519334681104'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/oops-jb-doubtless-did-it-again.html' title='Oops, JB Doubtless Did It Again!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109339772689703021</id><published>2004-08-24T20:18:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-24T20:35:26.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Praise Allah!</title><summary type='text'>Allah has smiled upon me which, consequently, has resulted in increased traffic--or, to be more precise, traffic--for the heretofore humble Biscuit. Praise be to Allah!Now, I'm just a hopeless infidel, so I'm not really sure how to show my gratitude properly. Do I stone one virgin to death? or two? And where the hell can I find a virgin...in Minneapolis...at this hour of the night?Of course, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109339772689703021/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109339772689703021' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109339772689703021'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109339772689703021'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/praise-allah.html' title='Praise Allah!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109336232347641417</id><published>2004-08-24T09:10:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-24T20:56:26.976-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Islam is in!</title><summary type='text'>State Department correspondent Phyllis McIntosh steps into the way-back machine to set the record straight about Islamic influence on the shape of American history and culture. (Thanks LGF) The first sentence of McIntosh's article is familiar to anyone who ever struggled with the Introductory Paragraph of the traditional 5 Paragraph Paper that most college students grow beyond sometime during </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109336232347641417/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109336232347641417' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109336232347641417'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109336232347641417'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/islam-is-in.html' title='Islam is in!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109313414850716336</id><published>2004-08-21T18:38:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-24T20:06:48.443-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Moonbats Attack!</title><summary type='text'>It didn't take long for a group of raving idiots in St. Paul to start a petition to recall Mayor Randy Kelly. We, the undersigned registered voters of Saint Paul, hereby petition for the removal of Randy C. Kelly, who holds the office of Mayor; the grounds for the recall are as follows:We put our trust in Randy Kelly to act first and foremost for the best interests of the citizens of St. Paul </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109313414850716336/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109313414850716336' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109313414850716336'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109313414850716336'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/moonbats-attack.html' title='Moonbats Attack!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109293182390544051</id><published>2004-08-19T10:54:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-21T19:53:00.430-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Son of Pot. Kettle. Black.</title><summary type='text'>Kerry: Bush Lets Groups Do 'Dirty Work' By RON FOURNIER, AP Political WriterBOSTON - Sen. John Kerry (news - web sites) accused President Bush (news - web sites) on Thursday of relying on front groups to challenge his record of valor in Vietnam, asserting, "He wants them to do his dirty work."It strikes me as a little disingenuous for Kerry to criticize Bush for "relying on front groups" to </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109293182390544051/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109293182390544051' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109293182390544051'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109293182390544051'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/son-of-pot-kettle-black.html' title='Son of Pot. Kettle. Black.'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109284800458242442</id><published>2004-08-18T11:18:00.001-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-02T11:03:51.116-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Blue Blood</title><summary type='text'>Despite his best efforts to position himself as a "regular guy," Kerry just can't shake his blue-blooded image. This story won't help. After months of research into Kerry's ancestry, Burke's Peerage, experts on British aristocracy, reported Monday that the Vietnam war veteran is related to all the royal houses of Europe and can claim kinship with Czar Ivan "The Terrible," a previous Emperor of </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109284800458242442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109284800458242442' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109284800458242442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109284800458242442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/blue-blood.html' title='Blue Blood'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109254080579701938</id><published>2004-08-14T21:31:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-15T14:16:31.863-05:00</updated><title type='text'>More Sandwiches in the News!</title><summary type='text'>I'm actually pretty surprised at the number of sandwich oriented news stories. Just a quick rundown of headlines here.WHAT’S REALLY COOKIN’ AT QUIZNOS?: Sandwich chain pulls ads on urban stations.This is one of those stories that says nothing but implies a lot. What we know for sure is that Quiznos Subs has decided to pull all of its advertising from R&amp;B and hip hop radio stations. What we don</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109254080579701938/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109254080579701938' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109254080579701938'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109254080579701938'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/more-sandwiches-in-news.html' title='More Sandwiches in the News!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109253627530260766</id><published>2004-08-14T21:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-14T21:29:00.816-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Sandwiches in the News!</title><summary type='text'>First, a story from Beirut, Lebanon. Beirut, Lebanon, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- A Lebanese village has entered the Guinness Book of Records for making the longest sandwich in the world, reports said Saturday. The residents of the village of Kfar Katra in the region of Mount Lebanon, southeast of Beirut, made a giant sandwich from local bread measuring 718 meters long and 15 centimeters wide.The </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109253627530260766/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109253627530260766' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109253627530260766'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109253627530260766'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/sandwiches-in-news.html' title='Sandwiches in the News!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109211340380049293</id><published>2004-08-12T14:29:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-27T01:21:43.896-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Cultural Rollback and the Hipster Manifesto</title><summary type='text'>De gustubus non est disputandum.--Cicero"Whoops, forgot, you don't speak Latin."--Steve MartinThere is no arguing taste.There is no arguing taste because, in the end, you can't really fault somebody for liking or not liking something.That doesn't mean people won't try.Despite some misgivings about blogging other blogs, I'm cautiously linking to this because I think JB Doubtless is, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109211340380049293/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109211340380049293' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109211340380049293'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109211340380049293'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/cultural-rollback-and-hipster.html' title='Cultural Rollback and the Hipster Manifesto'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109207144596091199</id><published>2004-08-09T11:08:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-09T22:26:45.746-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Militants, Insurgents &amp; Rebels, Oh my!</title><summary type='text'>The militants have been busy.Militants Behead Man in Video on InternetVideo Shows Iraqi Militants Killing ManMilitants Kidnap Iranian Diplomat in IraqBut it's not all fun and games.300 Militants Killed in Najaf FightingMeanwhile, a plucky band of insurgents threatens to take the spotlight from the seemingly omnipresent militants.Iran Said Sending Weapons to InsurgentsIran Confirms</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109207144596091199/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109207144596091199' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109207144596091199'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109207144596091199'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/militants-insurgents-rebels-oh-my.html' title='Militants, Insurgents &amp; Rebels, Oh my!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109174061523674126</id><published>2004-08-05T16:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-07T07:31:55.696-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Revenge of The Pet Goat</title><summary type='text'>There's been a new sighting of "The Pet Goat," which continues to haunt George Bush's reelection effort. Addressing minority journalists in the nation's capital, Kerry was asked what he would have done as president the moment he received word of the attacks on the World Trade Center. Bush spent seven minutes reading "The Pet Goat" to Florida elementary school children after his chief of staff, </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109174061523674126/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109174061523674126' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109174061523674126'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109174061523674126'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/revenge-of-pet-goat.html' title='Revenge of The Pet Goat'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109154058798773169</id><published>2004-08-03T08:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-03T23:30:33.683-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Do you want an order of freedom fries with your shrimp vindaloo, Senator?</title><summary type='text'>"Y'know, I was in Vietnam."John Kerry took some time out from his busy campaign to commune with the great unwashed at a Wendy's in Newburgh, NY. The dynamic duo won praise from Wendy's manager John Garrett.  “I’m for anyone who comes in and likes double cheeses,” Garrett said. “I’m a big supporter of anyone who orders our food.” Other patrons were put off by John Kerry's indecisiveness at the</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109154058798773169/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109154058798773169' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109154058798773169'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109154058798773169'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/do-you-want-order-of-freedom-fries.html' title='Do you want an order of freedom fries with your shrimp vindaloo, Senator?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109140913555266754</id><published>2004-08-02T10:43:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-09-04T14:45:51.660-05:00</updated><title type='text'>View from the Peanut Gallery, pt 4</title><summary type='text'>I've given up all pretense of being timely with these posts.Reading, again, through some key speeches from the Democratic National convention, I notice some interesting motifs. The most obvious are, of course--references to John F. Kerry's heroic "defense" of our nation,--pleas for unity, sharing, and togetherness,--references to John F. Kerry's heroic "defense" of our nation,--the threat </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109140913555266754/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109140913555266754' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109140913555266754'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109140913555266754'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/view-from-peanut-gallery-pt-4.html' title='View from the Peanut Gallery, pt 4'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109146135114680080</id><published>2004-08-02T10:42:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-02T10:50:46.416-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Aahhh...unity</title><summary type='text'>Democrats favor shared responsibility, shared opportunity, and more global cooperation.  Dogs favor shared frisbees.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109146135114680080/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109146135114680080' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109146135114680080'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109146135114680080'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/aahhhunity.html' title='Aahhh...unity'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109141593114791961</id><published>2004-08-01T21:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-02T08:37:51.200-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Mayor Kelly Breaks Ranks</title><summary type='text'>This is interesting.After twice refusing to endorse a Presidential ticket this year, St. Paul, MN, Mayor Randy Kelly announced his support for President George W. Bush today.Read the full story hereHere is the complete text of his announcement today:Thanks for being here; it's a wonderful day in St. Paul. It may be too nice a day to talk about politics, so I won’t keep you long.I take a </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109141593114791961/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109141593114791961' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109141593114791961'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109141593114791961'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/mayor-kelly-breaks-ranks.html' title='Mayor Kelly Breaks Ranks'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109139079047060130</id><published>2004-08-01T13:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-01T15:24:54.260-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Wellstone!</title><summary type='text'>I'm happy to report that the Wellstone! campaign continues to surge forward, despite what one might charitably call a "major setback" a couple of years ago. Or, as CNN dubbed it, a "complication."An army of Wellstone! supporters have been instrumental in the Senator's valiant effort to return from the dead (politically and literally) . Among the creepier efforts to keep the Wellstone! dream </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109139079047060130/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109139079047060130' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109139079047060130'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109139079047060130'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/08/wellstone.html' title='Wellstone!'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109128168806225747</id><published>2004-07-31T08:48:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-31T09:11:21.806-05:00</updated><title type='text'>"I love the smell of ass in the morning!"</title><summary type='text'></summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109128168806225747/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109128168806225747' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109128168806225747'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109128168806225747'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/i-love-smell-of-ass-in-morning.html' title='&quot;I love the smell of ass in the morning!&quot;'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109119530729396234</id><published>2004-07-30T07:59:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-31T10:57:18.156-05:00</updated><title type='text'>View from the Peanut Gallery, pt. 3</title><summary type='text'>This article nicely explains my own disdain for the rhetoric from the left.As easy as it is to say that we can't abide the president because of the gulf between what he espouses and what he actually does , what haunts me is the possibility that we can't abide him because of us--because of the gulf between his will and our willingness. What haunts me is the possibility that we have become so </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109119530729396234/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109119530729396234' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109119530729396234'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109119530729396234'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/view-from-peanut-gallery-pt-3.html' title='View from the Peanut Gallery, pt. 3'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109112491434591775</id><published>2004-07-28T13:05:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-29T13:18:10.933-05:00</updated><title type='text'>View from the Peanut Gallery, pt. 2</title><summary type='text'>From Senator Ted Kennedy's remarks at the Democratic National Convention: We bear no ill will toward our opponents. In fact, we’d be happy to have them over for a polite little tea party. I know just the place – right down the road at Boston Harbor.Thank you, Senator. That would be lovely. But Chappaquiddick is much nicer this time of year. </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109112491434591775/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109112491434591775' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109112491434591775'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109112491434591775'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/view-from-peanut-gallery-pt-2.html' title='View from the Peanut Gallery, pt. 2'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109102396459642895</id><published>2004-07-28T08:52:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-29T13:41:25.710-05:00</updated><title type='text'>View from the Peanut Gallery, pt. 1</title><summary type='text'>Those of us who couldn't get press clearance from the DNC will have to lob cheap shots from the peanut gallery.  Let's start with some excerpts from Jimmy Carter's speech (in pink) at the Democratic Convention in Boston:  Carter's speech begins with a recollection from his days on the campaign trail... Twenty-eight years ago I was running for president, and I said then, “I want a government </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109102396459642895/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109102396459642895' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109102396459642895'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109102396459642895'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/view-from-peanut-gallery-pt-1.html' title='View from the Peanut Gallery, pt. 1'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109098087985166714</id><published>2004-07-27T20:50:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-27T21:14:39.850-05:00</updated><title type='text'>It's Like Rain on Your (Gay) Wedding Day</title><summary type='text'>File under: IronyCouple Launches Canada's First Same-Sex DivorceTwo Canadian women who were among the first same-sex couples to get legally married, may become the first same-sex couple in Canada to get a divorce. The two, who decided to call it quits after getting married last summer, are trying to get the country's Divorce Act amended so they can go their separate ways, a lawyer for one </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109098087985166714/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109098087985166714' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109098087985166714'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109098087985166714'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/its-like-rain-on-your-gay-wedding-day.html' title='It&apos;s Like Rain on Your (Gay) Wedding Day'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-109010345841575115</id><published>2004-07-27T17:30:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-01T15:28:28.516-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bamboozled?</title><summary type='text'>    So John Kerry's a Black man, now.Well, as many have noted, he is married to an African American--and in an Interview on MTV, Kerry professed a keen interest in hip-hop.  More surprisingly,  last March Kerry told the American Urban Radio Network,"President Clinton was often known as the first black president. I wouldn't be upset if I could earn the right to be the second."And why not? </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/109010345841575115/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=109010345841575115' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109010345841575115'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/109010345841575115'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/bamboozled.html' title='Bamboozled?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108997178876614186</id><published>2004-07-16T04:44:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-01T15:56:03.700-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Update: Pot. Kettle. Black.</title><summary type='text'>This is an update to an earlier post.On July 12,Matt Drudge reported that the Bush/Hitler ad referenced in the Bush-Cheney Campaign's "Coalition of the Wild-Eyed" spot was still posted on MoveOn.org's Website.Bush Haters worldwide are still watching the famed 'Bush is Nazi' add on MOVEON.ORG -- despite repeated claims by the site's founders that the short had been removed more than six months</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108997178876614186/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108997178876614186' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108997178876614186'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108997178876614186'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/update-pot-kettle-black.html' title='Update: Pot. Kettle. Black.'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108996976694097339</id><published>2004-07-16T04:22:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-16T04:22:46.940-05:00</updated><title type='text'></title><summary type='text'>Dog </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108996976694097339/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108996976694097339' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108996976694097339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108996976694097339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/dog_16.html' title=''/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108993387004263926</id><published>2004-07-15T17:53:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-01T15:27:57.606-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Half Blind Mutt</title><summary type='text'>Shortly after we adopted our dog, we discovered that he was born with a severe congenital birth defect called Collie Eye Anomaly.  His left eye was severely afflicted, but he could still see with it.  The retina in his right eye, however, was completely detached--thus accounting for the strange red glow of that eye whenever light struck it at the right angle.  I was devastated, at first.  We'd </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108993387004263926/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108993387004263926' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108993387004263926'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108993387004263926'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/half-blind-mutt.html' title='Half Blind Mutt'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108992097160437784</id><published>2004-07-15T14:47:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-01T15:27:31.963-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Eyewitnesses to History</title><summary type='text'>As a follow-up to that last, admittedly long, post, here are some more perspectives on the President's visit to the Emma E. Booker Elementary School.   They aren't all laudatory--but they aren't really all that critical of the President's behavior that morning.  They strike me as the most realistic and most human accounts of what happened on the morning of September 11, 2001. Update: This </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108992097160437784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108992097160437784' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108992097160437784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108992097160437784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/eyewitnesses-to-history.html' title='Eyewitnesses to History'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-10899111867140445</id><published>2004-07-15T09:07:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-08-01T15:26:31.006-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fahrenheit Conspiracy, pt. 2</title><summary type='text'>Read pt. 1 first Strangely enough, the most commonly cited evidence damning George W. Bush's behavior before, during, and after September 11, 2001, is the video footage of the President reading a story with a classroom full of students at the Emma E. Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida. Spurred by Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11, several bloggers have pointed these 7 minutes of video as proof</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/10899111867140445/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=10899111867140445' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/10899111867140445'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/10899111867140445'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/fahrenheit-conspiracy-pt-2.html' title='The Fahrenheit Conspiracy, pt. 2'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108981654890317697</id><published>2004-07-14T09:20:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-17T15:28:57.693-05:00</updated><title type='text'>The Fahrenheit Conspiracy, pt. 1</title><summary type='text'>People are still arguing the veracity of Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11. One particularly damning piece of evidence, according to Moore devotees, is the approval of a flight carrying 26 members of the BinLaden family. One poster at Little Green Footballs writes: Bush White House (Clarke said Bush knew) flew the Bin Ladens out of the US after 9/11. Bush sat like a dunce as the US was being attack</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108981654890317697/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108981654890317697' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108981654890317697'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108981654890317697'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/fahrenheit-conspiracy-pt-1.html' title='The Fahrenheit Conspiracy, pt. 1'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108947059595337229</id><published>2004-07-12T12:25:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-12T21:20:33.863-05:00</updated><title type='text'>What Media Bias?</title><summary type='text'>First, look at the headline:Pentagon: Bush Military Records DestroyedSounds sinister, doesn't it?  Can't you just imagine a small team of shadowy, black-clad conspirators holding penlights in their teeth and rifling through the file cabinets in a darkened office looking for...here it is!  The evidence that conclusively demonstrates George W. Bush's desertion from his National Guard duties!  </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108947059595337229/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108947059595337229' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108947059595337229'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108947059595337229'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/what-media-bias.html' title='What Media Bias?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108948542035276136</id><published>2004-07-10T13:49:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-10T13:50:20.353-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Is Bush your Homie?</title><summary type='text'>Just in case the banner ad changes in a few days, I thought I'd save this last link for all the brothas in da house.</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108948542035276136/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108948542035276136' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108948542035276136'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108948542035276136'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/is-bush-your-homie.html' title='Is Bush your Homie?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108948529923514427</id><published>2004-07-10T13:46:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-10-18T23:13:20.186-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Bush is my Homie?</title><summary type='text'>And now Blogger thinks I might want a Bush is my Homie T-shirt. Oh, Blogger, now you're just being silly.Update: Judging by search requests, this is the most popular post on this blog. For those of you looking for the web site that sells the Bush is My Homie T-Shirt, you've come to the wrong place. I'm sorry. I feel I should explain.Remember those banner ads that Blogger used to put at the </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108948529923514427/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108948529923514427' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108948529923514427'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108948529923514427'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/bush-is-my-homie.html' title='Bush is my Homie?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108948517170931463</id><published>2004-07-10T13:40:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-10T13:46:11.710-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Just What Kind of Person Does "Blogger" Think I Am?</title><summary type='text'>Okay, so I just glanced up at the banner ad at the top of this screen, and it turns out that, because of the several links posted in "Pot. Kettle. Black," Blogger thinks I am a Neo-Nazi Democrat, or possibly a Liberal Fascist.  Why else would they try to sell me Mein Kampf and Kerry Edwards '04 Campaign T-Shirts?</summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108948517170931463/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108948517170931463' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108948517170931463'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108948517170931463'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/07/just-what-kind-of-person-does-blogger.html' title='Just What Kind of Person Does &quot;Blogger&quot; Think I Am?'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7370120.post-108830957957179624</id><published>2004-06-26T22:21:00.000-05:00</published><updated>2004-07-17T16:17:48.540-05:00</updated><title type='text'>Pot.  Kettle.  Black</title><summary type='text'>The Kerry campaign has taken a firm stance on references to Hitler in a recent Bush/Cheney '04 campaign spot. Read on Kerry Spokesperson Calls on Bush to Apologize for Using Images of Hitler on Website June 25, 2004 For Immediate Release Washington, DC Kerry campaign spokesperson Phil Singer issued the following statement in response to the Internet ad on George Bush's website featuring </summary><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/feeds/108830957957179624/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=7370120&amp;postID=108830957957179624' title='10 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108830957957179624'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/7370120/posts/default/108830957957179624'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://rubberbiscuit.blogspot.com/2004/06/pot-kettle-black.html' title='Pot.  Kettle.  Black'/><author><name>tjd</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/06760604038731565822</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>10</thr:total></entry></feed>
