Reason #86,476.

Annan has ordered all the flags in the plaza flown at half mast for the murderer Arafat.

[Update at 5:37 PM EST]

Ed Wright points out that I didn’t read carefully–only the UN flag is being lowered. But still…

Here’s someone who claims that Vietnam vets who said that they were spat on (and worse) upon return are liars.

Somehow, I suspect that it may suck to be him over the next few days.

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That’s what this post seemed to have semi-usefully turned into while I was gone (when it wasn’t a thread about how I was a hateful bigot, and twisted, and creepy, and other adjectives that seemed to substitute for actual argument, though not very well).

I’d like to think that this story about some poor souls who need hypnotherapy to get over the election is a story from The Onion, but it’s from my new home-town paper:

Boca Raton trauma specialist Douglas Schooler said he has treated 15 clients and friends with

I, too, would like to see that Arlen “Not Proven” Specter doesn’t ascend to the chairmanship of the Senate Judiciary Committee. In fact, I wish that we could just appoint him as ambassador to Scotland, where perhaps he’ll find the law more to his liking.

I’d even be happy to accept a Rendel-appointed Democrat in his place. At least he’d be an honest one.

The race is finally completely over. Bush was just awarded Iowa, and all the electoral votes have been assigned. A thirty-four point difference.

Alan Boyle has some state and county maps that are more, well, nuanced.

For the record, I should note that I am on the “red” side of the political spectrum only in the very limited sense that I favored George Bush over John Kerry.