Tête-à-Tête-Tête

I’ll have to pick up a copy of Time - apparently my favorite brother & sister performing team - yes even more than Donny & Marie - are featured this week. (The “making of the article” video is here, but probably only interesting to the hard-core fans.)
Another of my favorite YouTube Galchenko videos:

kos has the roll-call of“no” votes on stem cell research. Assuming the Bush veto comes as expected, we’re all hoping for an override. I’m placing my bets on the most likely “no” votes to swing to a “yes” on overriding the veto:
Sununu (NH)
Nelson (NE) (D)
Dole (NC)
Graham (SC)
I’d tell you why, but that would be [...]

Addresses foreign leaders with “Yo!” (while talking with his mouth full), gives uninvited shoulder massages to female colleagues, wipes his glasses on some else’s shirt, fiddles while Rome burns plays guitar while New Orleans floods: world-class jerk or President of the United States?
Update: The latest word on professionalism, from Tim Grieve. I just [...]

Continuing Vova & Olga week (I’m sorry - I can’t help it — too big a fan)
The accent is fake - the kids are real Russians, but at least Vova’s English is near perfect, probably Olga’s too. The Rootberries beat the Galchenkos in a prior juggling competition.

If you want a serious demonstration of Vova’s [...]

Josh Marshall quotes Bill Odom saying, “A reverse domino theory may be playing out in the Middle East.”
I’m being overly pedantic, but a reverse domino theory would have all the dominoes, once having fallen down, standing up on their own again. That sounds nice, doesn’t it? Unfortunately, future historians may end up describing what’s [...]

Bush, open mic:
Later, Bush added that ‘the irony is, what they need to do is get Syria to get Hezbollah to stop doing this shit, and it’s over,’ though he does not specify who ‘they’ are.
No kidding. Best I can tell is that “they” is the black ops guys who are supposed [...]

I was reading Simon Blackburn’s book, Being Good, last night (I’m a big fan of his other popular book, Think), and I ran across a quotation from David Hume’s An Enquiry into the Principles of Morals:

When a man denominates another his enemy, his rival, his antagonist, his adversary, he is understood to speak the language [...]

I had no idea Hippy Dave had Presidential aspirations. Is the world ready for a President Lebowski? I mean, say what you like about the tenets of National Socialism, Dude, at least it’s an ethos.

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So I have to be out of my office until about mid-day today, for an off campus meeting with a former student. I get back to my building, notice that it’s warm, a bit stuffy, and a bit darker than usual–a power transformer has blown. Surprisingly enough, I can be productive (as productive [...]