…as could have been easily predicted.
[Update a few minutes later]
Speaking of alcohol, Danielle Crittendon explodes the latest urban myth with good old-fashioned empiricism. The science is settled! But just to be sure, I think that Kari should do this on Mythbusters.
Well, this is interesting, I guess, but as commenters note, usually there’s not just one witness in cases like this. Hard to know what’s cause and what’s effect in terms of the guy’s mental condition (that is, is he mentally ill because of real abuse, or is he making up stories about abuse because he’s mentally ill?). Though apparently the mother was aware, and they did have contact.
For whatever it’s worth, when I was growing up, I lived around the corner from Congressman Kildee, and delivered his morning paper. When I collected from him, he never invited me in.
[Update a while later]
Given that he’s retiring this year, I wonder what effect, if any, these revelations will have on the race to replace him? Might make it tougher for nephew Dan.
[Late evening update]
Welcome, Instapundit readers. I have to say that it’s certainly possible that he just wasn’t that into me. Certainly true of a lot of women that I’ve met over the decades…
Seriously, is it possible to parody people who literally elect a border collie as their leader? Who had that in the betting pool?
Then again, beats Nancy Pelosi.
Are masses of exterminated zombies toxic?
A 19st rugby player suffered a stroke while training – and discovered when he woke up that he was gay.
Chris Birch, 26, had proposed to his girlfriend and worked in a bank when he suffered a freak accident in the gym.
The rugby-loving Welshman was trying to impress his friends with a back flip but broke his neck and suffered a stroke.
He was taken to the Royal Gwent hospital where his girlfriend and family waited for news – but said: ‘I was gay when I woke up…’
Chris retrained as a hairdresser and now lives with his partner Jack Powell, 19, above the salon in which he works.
But I thought it was a “choice”?
West Coast
Liberty
Adolph Hitler
That is all.
[Update a few minutes later]
OK, those aren’t the only three — they’re the top three. “Faa” comes in fourth. And “NASA” comes in tenth place.
The Sioux Nation is Siouxing the NCAA over its political correctness:
“Though the NCAA has decided ‘Fighting Sioux’ is derogatory, the NCAA supports the University of Illinois’ use of the name ‘Fighting Illini,’ and the use by Florida State University of the name ‘Seminoles’ along with the Seminole mascot – someone dressed in Native American attire who rides into the FSU stadium on a horse and throws a flaming spear before every home football game,” said Soderstrom. “The NCAA claims these are not derogatory depictions because the Illini people and the Seminole people approve of the use of the name and mascot. Inexplicably, the NCAA fails to accept the tribal vote and the sacred religious ceremony as endorsements of the name ‘Fighting Sioux’ by the North Dakota Sioux Nation.”
The lawsuit claims that the Sioux tribe were “indispensable parties” to a lawsuit filed by the State of North Dakota against the NCAA in 2007, the settlement of which required the state to get permission from the Spirit Lake and Standing Rock Sioux tribes, but were never included in negotiations of that settlement. It also alleges defamation, violations of the Indian Civil Rights Act, defamation and an unlawful restraint on trade.
You know, in the old days, they would have just taken some scalps.
…gone wild? It could be a new show on E!
Why can’t anyone ever get a good picture of a ghost?
Why would you imagine that I would be so stupid as to open an email from “PASCAL,” subject: “From PASCAL”?
[Update a few minutes later]
Here’s another compelling email subject: “RE: RE: hi”
And today it’s Rejected Peanuts Specials. As you might guess, some of them are kind of sick.