Wow.

Yahoo! News - Scientists Find Soft Tissue in T-Rex Bone

Jurassic Park here we come baby.

Lambert at corrente (a liberal blog)

corrente / Leah, Lambert, Tresy, the farmer, Tom, Xan, and RDF:

"I'm coming round to the view that Reid did the right thing by giving the Republicans exactly what they wanted on the Schiavo case. Now we're seeing, up close and personal, what these people are like, and the lengths they will go to, to keep and maintain power. Reid allowed this object lesson to take place, and it seems to be working out for the best."

Good point.

Reason magazine -- July 1975

Reason magazine -- July 1975:

"If you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals–if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."

--Ronald Reagan

Reagan is rolling in his grave these days.

MSNBC - A conservative crackup?

Glenn Reynolds writes:

"In their book, The Right Nation:  Conservative Power in America, authors John Micklethwait and Adrian Wooldridge predict steady growth for the conservative movement in America, unless something goes wrong to derail its trajectory.  But things can always go wrong.  How could the Republican coalition fail?  By being 'too Southern, too greedy, and too contradictory.'

Right now it's aiming at two out of three."

Buckley on Schiavo

WFB on Terri Schiavo on National Review Online

But that question was not directly accosted by the judge, who said only that Terri's rights had not been abrogated. It was unseemly for critics to compare her end with that of victims of the Nazi regime. There was never a more industrious inquiry, than in the Schiavo case, into the matter of rights formal and inchoate. It is simply wrong, whatever is felt about the eventual abandonment of her by her husband, to use the killing language. She was kept alive for fifteen years, underwent a hundred medical ministrations, all of them in service of an abstraction, which was that she wanted to stay alive. There are laws against force-feeding, and no one will know whether, if she had had the means to convey her will in the matter, she too would have said, Enough.

Sully gets it right.

www.AndrewSullivan.com - Daily Dish:

"THE HYSTERIA MOUNTS: I'm beginning to wonder if the Republican party will soon oppose the whole concept of an independent judiciary. Just read William Bennett's screed in National Review. It contains the sentence: 'It is a mistake to believe that the courts have the ultimate say as to what a constitution means.' Bennett and his co-author argue that Jeb Bush should send in state troops to reinsert the feeding tube and break the law if necessary. Screw the science. Screw the court system. Screw the law. I disagree with Jonah that this is a minor spat with no long-term consequences. We are looking directly at the real face of contemporary Republicanism. Sane, moderate, thoughtful people are watching this circus and will not soon forget it. "

Did I mention that I still love Andrew Sullivan. I'm gonna sample the (non-wingnut) true conservative anti-federalist portion of the blogsphere for some choice quotes.

Culture of Life == Universal Healthcare

Till Death—or Tom DeLay—Do Us Part - The "sanctity of marriage" is suddenly negotiable. By Dahlia Lithwick:

"Of all the ironies at the heart of the Terri Schiavo case—alleged federalists who scoff at federalism; the fact that Schiavo, who's in a persistent vegetative state, has lived off the winnings in the same kind of medical malpractice suit that Republicans in Congress seek to limit—the most astonishing is this: Congressional Republicans who have staked their careers and the last election on the 'sanctity of marriage' have turned this case into a mockery of that very institution."

Yahoo! Creative Commons search

Yahoo! Search

Creative Commons is a nonprofit group that has come up with some flexible right to copy licenses for creative work. Want people to be able to share your work, but not lose your right to copy? CC is for you. Yahoo! just started a search engine to look for CC'd work.

Cool.

Say Anything

Salon.com Politics:

"During the 2004 presidential race, Vice President Dick Cheney savaged John Kerry for suggesting that the United States should fight 'a more effective, more thoughtful, more strategic, more proactive, more sensitive war on terror that reaches out to other nations and brings them to our side and lives up to American values in history.' On the stump, Cheney said that a 'sensitive war will not destroy the evil men who killed 3,000 Americans.' And at the Republican National Convention, Cheney blasted Kerry for talking about ''a more sensitive war on terror,' as though al Qaida will be impressed with our softer side.'

Could it be that John Kerry was right? A man named Dick Cheney seems to think so. In an interview in today's Washington Post, the vice president says that the United States must do a better job on the non-military aspects of its war on terror. 'If we are going to be successful long-term in the war on terror and in the broader objective of promoting freedom and democracy in that part of the world, we have to get the public diplomacy piece of it right,' Cheney says. 'Up until now, that has been a very weak part of our arsenal.'

That was exactly the point Kerry was making when Cheney mocked him. Of course, the Bush-Cheney approach to improving public diplomacy isn't exactly the one Kerry advocated: Whatever Kerry might have done as president, it's a safe bet that he wouldn't have nominated Condoleezza Rice and Karen Hughes to top posts at the State Department or Paul Wolfowitz to lead the World Bank. Cheney defends all of those moves in his interview with the Post, saying that Bush has made 'some personnel changes that he felt would strengthen our capacity as an administration to achieve our objectives.'"

Daily Drew

Stay north of the line.

Some IMAX theaters not screening volcanoes flick

Some IMAX theaters in the south are not showing a film about volcanos because it contains references to evolution. Where are these IMAX theaters? Museums of course. Jeez...

Suck it Clear Channel

Clear Channel hit with $90 mil. verdict

Utah violates the Constitution

Utah enacts net porn law | The Register

Government mandated Internet filtering for private citizens. That'll last about three seconds in court.

A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request by Steve Goodman

A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request by Steve Goodman:

By the shore's of old Lake Michigan
Where the 'hawk wind' blows so cold
An old Cub fan lay dying
In his midnight hour that tolled
Round his bed, his friends had all gathered
They knew his time was short
And on his head they put this bright blue cap
From his all-time favorite sport
He told them, 'Its late and its getting dark in here'
And I know its time to go
But before I leave the line-up
Boys, there's just one thing I'd like to know

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League

Told his friends 'You know the law of averages says:
Anything will happen that can'
That's what it says
'But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan'
The Cubs made me a criminal
Sent me down a wayward path
They stole my youth from me
(that's the truth)
I'd forsake my teachers
To go sit in the bleachers
In flagrant truancy

and then one thing led to another
and soon I'd discovered alcohol, gambling, dope
football, hockey, lacrosse, tennis
But what do you expect,
When you raise up a young boy's hopes
And then just crush 'em like so many paper beer cups.

Year after year after year
after year, after year, after year, after year, after year
'Til those hopes are just so much popcorn
for the pigeons beneath the 'L' tracks to eat
He said, 'You know I'll never see Wrigley Field, anymore before my eternal rest
So if you have your pencils and your score cards ready,
and I'll read you my last request
He said, 'Give me a double header funeral in Wrigley Field
On some sunny weekend day (no lights)
Have the organ play the 'National Anthem'
and then a little 'na, na, na, na, hey hey, hey, Goodbye'
Make six bullpen pitchers, carry my coffin
and six ground keepers clear my path
Have the umpires bark me out at every base
In all their holy wrath
Its a beautiful day for a funeral, Hey Ernie lets play two!
Somebody go get Jack Brickhouse to come back,
and conduct just one more interview
Have the Cubbies run right out into the middle of the field,
Have Keith Moreland drop a routine fly
Give everybody two bags of peanuts and a frosty malt
And I'll be ready to die

Build a big fire on home plate out of your Louisville Sluggers baseball bats,
And toss my coffin in
Let my ashes blow in a beautiful snow
From the prevailing 30 mile an hour southwest wind
When my last remains go flying over the left-field wall
Will bid the bleacher bums adíeu
And I will come to my final resting place, out on Waveland Avenue

The dying man's friends told him to cut it out
They said stop it that's an awful shame
He whispered, 'Don't Cry, we'll meet by and by near the Heavenly Hall of Fame
He said, 'I've got season's tickets to watch the Angels now,
So its just what I'm going to do
He said, 'but you the living, you're stuck here with the Cubs,
So its me that feels sorry for you!'

And he said, 'Ahh Play, play that lonesome losers tune,
That's the one I like the best'
And he closed his eyes, and slipped away
What we got is the Dying Cub Fan's Last Request
And here it is

Do they still play the blues in Chicago
When baseball season rolls around
When the snow melts away,
Do the Cubbies still play
In their ivy-covered burial ground
When I was a boy they were my pride and joy
But now they only bring fatigue
To the home of the brave
The land of the free
And the doormat of the National League

One at a time please.

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | Australian MP loses long lost son

Remember the 27 year old adopted guy who went looking for his biological parents only to find that his bio-dad worked in the same building? He found Mom first. Mom says your Dad is... Turns out Mom, according to DNA tests, was wrong.

"Mom, why we're you such a ho in the 70's? You can't even figure out who my Dad is!"

Free multimedia hosting?

Ourmedia Homepage | Ourmedia

Ourmedia in conjuction with archive.org claims to be offering lifetime free multimedia hosting forever. I should note that the page is /.'ed all to hell right now. Not a good sign for a multimedia host.

Permanent Bases in Iraq?

Matthew Yglesias: The Elephant In The Military Base

Yglesias on the administration's (speculative) want of permanent military bases in Iraq.

/me hangs head in shame.

CBS News | Report: 108 Died In U.S. Custody | March 16, 2005 11:30:03

A quarter of them have resulted in investigations of potentially abusive troops. How many of the remaining 3/4's should have? Granted people get sick and die in prisons too, but as these are "insurgents", fighting age men not to sickly for combat, one would assume they were fairly healthy going in (though possibly injured of course).

I am not Coconut man.

this.is.anfield: I'm a bad, bad person.

Evild over at this.is.anfield and the forum365 crew are running a prank worth of lowtax and his crew.

Who looks better and who looks worse on HDTV

Why Britney Spears Hates HDTV!

Recently got time to watch a few movies on a pimped out HDTV, and I noticed the first thing mentioned on here. Cameron Diaz has clearly visible acne scars. (I was watching Charlie's Angels 2 for the Drewness of it all). I also noticed one of the people that they list as looking better, Scarlett Johansson, did in fact seem to look better in HD while I was watching Lost in Translation.