Limbaugh is addicted to painkillers.

“Well, I am no role model. I refuse to let anyone think I am doing something great here, when there are people you never hear about, who face long odds and never resort to such escapes. They are the role models. I am no victim and do not portray myself as such. I take full responsibility for my problem.”

“At the present time, the authorities are conducting an investigation, and I have been asked to limit my public comments until this investigation is complete. So I will only say that the stories you have read and heard contain inaccuracies and distortions, which I will clear up when I am free to speak about them.”

Palestine Prime Minister (V2.0) is going to quit over – guess what? – disagreements on how much power the Prime Minister will have to crack down on militant groups.

Stupid Israelis. Always trying to push off peace in the mid-east.

Parents are sueing a school that’s installed a wi-fi network.

Where does it end? There’s absolutely NO damage alleged, NO basis for the suit other than “it hasn’t been proven completely safe”. Grrr.

Hopefully the school can figure out if there’s wireless networks, or cordless phones, etc, in these idiots’ homes and get this kicked out. In the mean time, the rest of the folks who pay property tax in the district are on the hook for this action, and the kids who ultimately benefit from exposure to technology and new learning methods are being penalized.

What puts me over the edge here is that the parents are seeking class action status, which is usually code for lawyers looking for a huge payout.

Look, I’m well aware that the Plame affair is beating a dead horse. But, I caught this article in the British Spectator, and had to throw it up since it catches a mastery of English (as a language) that we as Americans haven’t ever quite grabbed.

But, despite the media’s efforts to oomph it up into Watergate — or ‘Intimigate’ — it doesn’t make any sense as a conventional political scandal. Even if you accept that it’s technically possible to leak something that’s widely known around town and published in the guy’s Who’s Who entry, if the object was to discredit Joe Wilson why leak the name of his wife? On his own, Wilson comes over like a total flake — not a sober striped-pants diplomat but a shaggy-maned ideologically driven kook whose hippie-lyric quotes make a lot more sense than his neocon-bashing diatribes for leftie dronefests like the Nation. This is a guy who says things like, ‘Neoconservatives and religious conservatives have hijacked this administration, and I consider myself on a personal mission to destroy both.’ He spends his days dreaming of the first sentence of his obituary: ‘Joseph C. Wilson IV, the Bush I administration political appointee who did the most damage to the Bush II administration.’ Imagine Michael Moore and his ego after dropping 300lbs on the Atkins diet and you’re close enough. By revealing the fact that Mrs Wilson is a cool blonde CIA agent, all you do is give her husband a credibility lacking in almost every aspect of his speech, mien and coiffure.

“Intimigate”? “Dronefest”? “Coiffure”? Man, none of these words would make it in any of the dailies in the US. Nor would compound sentances, or a paragraph that long, make it.

Eggheads like us Porchers is what this country needs, regardless of political stripe. Take it back from the short-bus types who look good, give easy answers, and edit anything over three syllables from the evening news and newspapers.

Check out this review for Viewtiful Joe at GameSpy. Pretty cool looking game and it’s getting really good reviews. (and if you’re a Simpsons fan and you get the ad for Hit & Run, click through and check out the trailer.)

A selection of mini-posters to help you in your support of your drinking habit. Here’s my two favorites.

As the resident backporchbeer feminist, I felt compelled to post this article about everyone’s favorite governator.

I swear this is the only Susan Faludi article I will ever post.