I'm a pastafarian

Have you taken sides in the Intelligent Design debate? If not, you better pick a bandwagon soon. Read up on the latest here, an article that begins, "Is the super-intelligent, super-popular god known as the Flying Spaghetti Monster any match for the prophets of intelligent design?"

(Update: My sister has an even better headline for this story than I do: Separation of starch and state.)

The space between

So here's the difference between the authoritarian regime in Moscow and the one in Washington: When we detain legitimate travellers, we make sure the facilities are Stone Age and they know for certain they're not welcome again. When the Russians do it, they apologize.

Thank goodness there's Robin Williams

Just one nugget from among an hour on Bravo: "It's so sad to give Prozac to a cat--they just sit in a corner going, 'me.'"

I've said it before, I'll say it again

America is threatened much more by our own home-grown fanatics than by anyone overseas.

Someone with enough clout to protest

Whoever woulda thunk that the Rolling Stones would be an excellent source for anti-Bush awareness?

Somethin's gotta give

You know you're too getting too much exercise and not enough sleep when: Piglet's Big Movie, which you've seen dozens of times, makes you weepy.