To make a baby you need to eat 18 broccolis

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Ol' Dave is a little pissed that McCain has canceled his appearance on Letterman's show to return to the Senate for the bailout debate:

Earlier in the show, Dave kept saying, "You don't suspend your campaign. This doesn't smell right. This isn't the way a tested hero behaves." And he joked: "I think someone's putting something in his metamucil."

"He can't run the campaign because the economy is cratering? Fine, put in your second string quarterback, Sara (sic) Palin. Where is she?"

"What are you going to do if you're elected and things get tough? Suspend being president? We've got a guy like that now!"

Yeah, what could be more unpresidential than leaving a talk show to deal with a financial meltdown. 

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With the economy nosing us down the path to a future where we're all wandering the desert in spiked hockey pads and Captain Bullshit apparently gaining in the polls, you may be tempted to crack open your neighbor's skull and feast on the goo inside.  In other words, it's time to take a deep breath, utter a "Serenity Now" or two, and chillax.  And I'm here to help you do just that, with...bunnies!

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Now with top-of-the-post update: All right, I relent.  It's an okay idea.  I will agree with it just because Harry Reid doesn't want McCain in DC.

As much as I love populism (groan), this is absolutely stupid:

John McCain announced Wednesday he is suspending his campaign tomorrow and returning to Washington to work on the economic crisis, and called on opponent Barack Obama to join him.

He also called on the Commission on Presidential Debates to postpone the first faceoff until Congress addressed the crisis.

“Tomorrow morning, I will suspend my campaign and return to Washington after speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative. I have spoken to Senator Obama and informed him of my decision and have asked him to join me,” he said in New York, according to a transcript of the remarks released by his campaign.

“I am calling on the President to convene a meeting with the leadership from both houses of Congress, including Senator Obama and myself. It is time for both parties to come together to solve this problem,” he said.

Meanwhile, my guess is that the media will play this up as a "cynical" way to delay this first debate.  Because Senile Old McCain just can't handle being in the ring with The One.

Update: Allahpundit seems more positive than me about this move.  Welcome to Bizarro World.  And guess what, Obama isn't playing along.  Gee, who would have guessed?

Update (again): Well, it seems like everyone thinks this is a good idea except me.  I hope they're right.

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PETA continues to test the theory that you catch more flies with honey craziness than vinegar:

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent a letter to Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, cofounders of Ben & Jerry's Homemade Inc., urging them to replace cow's milk they use in their ice cream products with human breast milk, according to a statement recently released by a PETA spokeswoman.

"PETA's request comes in the wake of news reports that a Swiss restaurant owner will begin purchasing breast milk from nursing mothers and substituting breast milk for 75 percent of the cow's milk in the food he serves," the statement says.

PETA officials say a move to human breast milk would lessen the suffering of dairy cows and their babies on factory farms and benefit human health.

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Render unto Obama that which is Obama's...

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"Do you think it hurts him when his defense attorney says 'OJ obviously didn't use a gun to rob that place, he's a knife man!" - Dennis Miller, talking about OJ Simpson's armed robbery trial in Las Vegas. 

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Dude, you would think that MI6 would be better able to disguise their agents.

Here is what happened during the taping of some show on BBC:

Beeb journo Justin Rowlatt was questioning the spook, identified only as "John", when it became clear that all was not well with the government-issue fake face fungus sported by the incognito intelligence officer.

"He was sitting behind a rather grand desk at the Foreign Office and everything was going fine," Rowlatt told the Telegraph.

"Then I noticed that he was touching his upper lip occasionally ... the edge of the moustache was peeling away ... he was aware of what was happening."

For a while the cameras rolled, obtaining some no doubt priceless footage, but then Rowlatt took pity.

"When we had a break in the filming I said to him, 'John, the old moustache is coming off.' He said, 'Oh God, I thought that might happen.'"

The luckless spy was apparently a veteran Secret Intelligence Service (aka MI6) officer who had tangled with enemy counterintelligence operatives on many occasions. According to Rowlatt, he recovered well from what could have been (but evidently wasn't) a sticky situation, nonchalantly trousering the shoddy government moustache and maintaining a stiff (though now unclad) upper lip.

"He was very good about it and just said, 'I'll take it off completely'", said Rowlatt.

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Clay Aiken finally comes out (link to HuffPo). 

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From SYLG, we see that another Philly Police officer has been murdered and another shot, which makes for two in the last eighteen days, and four for the year.  For those unaware, Wyatt is a detective in Philly. 

The citizens of Philly or the leadership of the city have to move to take back control of the city from criminals if they want to keep this sort of thing from happening.  Philly is going to turn into an east-coast version of Detroit if they don't get things under control soon.  I know I do a lot, a whole lot of gratuitous Philly-bashing here, but I'd like to see things get better there.

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It seems that the Mayor isn't down with the Ace of Spades Lifestyleâ„¢. Not during the playoffs, anyway:

Mayor Richard Daley said today the city will ask bars near Chicago's baseball stadiums to voluntarily cut off alcohol sales after the seventh inning of home games where the Cubs or White Sox could clinch a playoff series.

While other city officials cautioned that they had yet to discuss the plan with bar owners, the mayor said it was a no-brainer.

"What we're asking is common sense. You can drink as much beer for seven innings as you want," Daley said. "Give me a break. This is common sense, that's all it is. We're asking for the cooperation of everyone."

Asked what he would tell business owners who fear a loss of business, Daley replied, "I'll have somebody buy their place tomorrow ... If you've been drinking for five hours and you're laying on the floor, don't give that person another beer.

"I mean, give me a break ... It's not going to cost them any business. They made enough money all year, I'm sorry. We're just talking about common sense."

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And reading Megan McArdle over the last few days really drives the point home.  Also, it makes me pretty sure I was wrong when I said the government shouldn't get involved in this one.  It is one thing to stand on principle and object to writing blank checks to failing businesses but another to give large loans (in effect) to businesses that will probably be able to repay them in the middle term.

Anyway, read basically everything on her site if you are curious about the current financial situation and feel like being overwhelmed by economics.

Correction:  After being told what's up in the comments, I have to suggest that Megan McArdle (and the entire Atlantic Magazine) be added to the DPUD banned website list.  I read MA since she started and always found her writing thoughtful and well-informed but in the last several years her writing on politics has strayed further and further from reality.  Now, Gabriel informs me that she's parroting that ridiculous Trig Trutherism horseshit on her blog.

It is always very disappointing when someone you respect lets you down.

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While Joe Biden saying that there's no way he and Obama would support any clean coal production is one of his best gaffes ever, I disagree that this will lose Western Pennsylvania for the Democratic ticket.

Why?  No offense to DPUD or anyone else, but Pennsylvania's just one of those fickle states that always acts huffy toward any Democratic insults, but always shows up on election day to dutifully vote for the Democratic ticket.

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He really wants to see Obama tank, beyond obvious at this point.

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I'd like to dedicate the following to Naomi Wolf, who's apparently been stricken with one of the most acute cases of Palin Derangement Syndrome that's been diagnosed so far:

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I guess I need to offer them a cheap T-Shirt.


Mind you, this happened in Cleveland, so take that for what it's worth.

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What can I say but, "Rove, you magnificent bastard!"

"I thought that was terrible by the way," Biden said of the computer ad in an interview broadcast tonight on the CBS Evening News

Asked why it was aired, Biden said: "I didn't know we did it and if I had anything to do with it, we would have never done it."

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