Polygamist ranch, polygamist ranch.  I’m up to here with these polygamist ranches already!  Are there no Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day VEGAN Saints?                   Where are all the Polygamist farms? Where are Archer, Daniel, and Midland Jessop now that things have gotten dicey?
                                       

-------------------------------OK, yes I also saw the Kos diary yesterday about the "hoax" where they phonoshopped the Big O.  Well, I think we gotta take this in stride here at Kos and not get all exorcised about it. I mean it’s not as if it wasn’t a "turnabout is fair play" kind of thing -- for the same kind of shot somebody engineered of the Prez awhile back.  As I recall that one had quite a good viral run.   It’s just a joke.  I mean you don’t think anybody really expected us to believe Obama would be using the phone upside down like that, do you?                                                                                                  

To our valued inmates:                                           Tired of that boring old nutraloaf? You know, the meat substitute made from cubed whole wheat bread, nondairy cheese, raw carrots, spinach, seedless raisins, beans, vegetable oil, tomato paste, potato flakes, powdered milk and -- rumor has it -- just a light sprinkling of potassium nitrate, aka saltpetre.  I mean what’s not to like?                        Nutria.   photo: Wikimedia.org                                                                                        

A Child’s Garden of Cheap Shots, because if you can’t enjoy yourself at the expense of a guy with $100-million who gets laid better in one hour than you will in your entire sorry life, well who can you kid?

Left: NY Gov. Eliot "John" Spitzer disguises himself as jack o' lantern for D.C. tryst.   Right: Turning that frown upside down to put on a game face for consituents, from whom much has been taken away. (AP photos)

 
       "Martha Feldstein has five              Tibetan Mastiffs" - NYT                                                               Sit Haiku, stay.  The AKC is one thing, but in politics it's dog-eat-dog:                    
                      L:  Mitt Romney >                             R: Mutt Romney >

          Given last week's dire predictions, has your holiday travel turned out so uneventful, that even Benizar Bhutto is suggesting you need to get out more?  

         Long for the good old days when you could count on flight delays, missed connections, and other war stories? Well perhaps you've forgotten that exactly one year ago, the Bush family set that pie just a little bit higher with travel gone awry on visits to Hawaii and the Argentine.  

          But now, thanks to the little known Freedom From Information Act, dKos is able to provide illuminating details from the written transcript of one of those sordid dream vacation incidents.

         Yes, of course it’s a low blow at an unfortunate fellow’s expense. But if dKos readers could find amusement in a lawyer unintentionally shot in the face on a quail hunt, surely this too is grist for the old mill during a sitcom writer’s strike.  At least that’s the spin we’re going with.

       As we Jews from Texas always like to start off our Kos diaries, "Chhhhhhhowdy!"

                                                           
         Chagrined that I totally missed "Talk Like a Pirate Day." However, Burke bilinguality tends to center around English and Broken English anyway. Fortunately in case you hadn’t noticed, it’s still Ramadan, the last of our three great Abrahamic faith holidays along with Labor Day and Jewish New Years.    

< The poet tries on holiday  attire.  
                                                           Left: In questionable taste.    

Right: Absolutely no doubt whatsoever.

       OK, the Taser thing. The kid had a mic.  Both he and the law thought they were on Springer.  Case closed!

       Actually as things develop there may be more to it.  And Oh so many unanswered questions – in addition to the ones directed at Kerry by this particular "perp."

  1) What the heck ever happened to pepper spray?
  2) In fact, doesn’t Heinz grow spray peppers?
  3) Is "Don’t Tase me, bro," the most effective response to your  
     average university cop, even if you are in Florida watching too  
     many "Miami Vice" episodes?  Move on already to CSI.
  4) Will the kid get to play Greg Palast in the film adaptation
     of Armed Madhouse?
  5) Is there a generic name for these electric shockers with the  
     barbs, or will we always have to use the Taser brand name, like  
     Kleenex and Frigidaire?
 
Five more, plus some not quite as silly stuff, as our story continues.  In the meantime, I've got to lie down.
     

As we Jews in Texas like to say, Chhhhhhhowdy!  And a Happy New Year (Yontif Bueno) from high atop Brad Garrett (Gerstenfeld) - arguably the world's tallest individual of the Hebraic persuasion. Here we are overlooking Chaim Square where a ball is slowly starting to descend.  Either signaling the beginning of another year...or I'm just more relaxed.

Lawyer, actor, Nixon quasi-apologist Ben Stein (e.g. the Jewish Fred Thompson), will likely be preoccupied for the next several weeks arguing that Larry Craig merely suffers from RLS (Republican Leg Syndrome).  Also that the Senator couldn’t possibly be interested in airport restroom-stall sex, because every time you move, the toilet flushes.  So he’s apparently opted to channel his latest administration apologia through me, and I can’t think of anything else to do with it.  Yeh that’s it; that’s what happened!