Anorexia by proxy

Couple starved infant to keep her from getting 'fat'

Thanx to copperwise

Revisionism

Everyone knows Ulysses S. Grant was a great general, and many people know that he was a great memoirist, but this is the first time I can remember seeing someone say he was a great president.

Thanx to Making Light.

I forgot that Chris Mathews was white, but then he said something stupid.

SOTU fails to contain MF-word and other signs of negritude

Thanx to Pandagon.

Rich fantasy life

Pandagon notes that Maureen Dowd writes real-person fanfic. There's no reason she shouldn't do it, but why does the Newspaper of Record publish it?

Son of Watergate?

Majikthise (several posts; keep scrolling down) is trying to figure out what was really going on in that third-rate burglary of Senator Landrieu's office by the fake pimp and his friends.

In Memoriam

* Gregory Jarvis
* Christa McAuliffe
* Ronald McNair
* Ellison Onizuka
* Judith Resnik
* Dick Scobee
* Michael J. Smith

24 years ago, they died trying to lead us in a jailbreak. I hope it wasn't in vain.