The slaveholder's position

Fay Wray has died. ‘Twas old age killed the beauty.

Zambia decides that democracy is literally too expensive, postponing local government elections for 2 years.

Bush says that there’s no point in raising taxes on the rich because "the really rich people figure out how to dodge taxes anyway."

Alan Keyes says Barack Obama’s support for abortion rights is "the slaveholder’s position." No, you’re thinking of Jack Ryan, your predecessor as R candidate for Senate for Ill.; he’s the one who was into whips and chains. He also said something about a victory for him being a victory for God. Hard to believe they actually had to go out of state to find a candidate like this.

Last week I advocated smiling on passport photos to screw up the biometrics. But this is better: a German has won the right to stick out his tongue (like the Albert Einstein picture, you know the one) in his passport photo.