Bob Dole doesn't like this

Bob Dole on the imprisonment of Judith Miller.

Like many Americans, I am perplexed by the federal investigation into the alleged leak of classified information that exposed Valerie Plame Wilson, the wife of Joseph C. Wilson IV, a former ambassador, as a Central Intelligence Agency officer. So far the special prosecutor, Patrick J. Fitzgerald, has achieved one notable result: putting a New York Times reporter, Judith Miller, in jail for refusing to break her promise of confidentiality to her sources in response to a grand jury subpoena. The incarceration of Ms. Miller is all the more baffling because she has never written a word about the C.I.A. flap....

Not enough self-references in third-person, but awesome nonetheless.

Tuesday grabbag

The Royals' consecutive losses at team-record 16, five more for the AL record. C'mon, guys, you can do it.

Good: $50 used iBooks. Bad: resulting stampede. Urinary malfunction, lost flip-flops, crushed strollers, dogs and cats living together, mass hysteria....

Overwhelmed at the upgrade from 50 to 100 icons? Need a quick-and-dirty way to make some? Try El Jay icon maker, complete with Firefox plugin. Okay, I'll stop mentioning it now. I just think it's neat.

Happiness in today's TWOP Staff Special Achievement Awards:
Most Questionable Advancement of Disabled Persons
Arrested Development and House tie in this category, the former for showing us the hilarious consequences of having one's hand bitten off by a seal, and the latter for having a main character whose crippledness has helped make him a bitter drug addict who is mocked for his disability at least once an episode. On one hand, it's great to see more disabled people represented on television. On the other hand -- oh, wait. That one got eaten. By a seal.
and
The Manos: The Hands Of Fate Memorial Golden Pen for Best Unintentional Comedy Writing in a Police Procedural
To the Law & Order scribes, for saddling Elisabeth Röhm with the most hilarious departure line in franchise history. No, it's not because you're a lesbian, honey. It's because you act about as well as an oar. From a lifeboat on the Titanic.

Okay, back to Dungeon Siege 2. Ah, Tuesday.

Meme time, 'cause...*shrug*

Stolen from kateshort by way of anw, marysiak and a few others....

1. When you look at yourself in the mirror, what's the first thing you look at?
Between my eyes, looking for the scar I got when my dad slammed my head in a car trunk. No, not kidding.

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Derka derk?

Brian Stokes Blog: My beloved San Francisco Bay Area Puppeteers Guild is under investigation by Homeland Security. According to their latest newsletter, its assets have been frozen ever since my friend and Treasurer Pam Brown resigned after 20 years and passed the miniscule nestegg to a new bank account a few months ago. The bank apologizes but legally can't do anything until Homeland Security determines this group of puppet fans and professionals is not planning to attack our country.

Obviously, we need Team America.

I think it's safe to say she lost

LAWRENCE, Kan. - A teenager found hanging from a dresser drawer with a coated bicycle chain lock around her neck apparently died while playing the "pass-out game," the girl's parents said.

Kimberly Wilson, a 15-year-old student at Veritas Christian School in Lawrence, died last week.

Her parents, Tim and Carol Wilson, began discussing the details of her death Monday because they wanted other parents to be aware of the dangers of playing the choking game, which cuts off the oxygen supply to the brain. Those who play achieve a type of "high," they said.

...The game has been in the news in recent weeks. Just last month, a 10-year-old Idaho boy was found dead, hanging from a tree. Authorities said he apparently died while trying to get high by playing the choking game. The case was similar to that three months ago in the Idaho town of Nampa, where 13-year-old Chelsea Dunn was found dead after apparently hanging herself in her closet.

...What's wrong with drinking like everyone else in high school? Try something safer. Like smoking.

New Onion Day!

U.S. Intelligence: Nukehavistan May Have Nuclear Weapons

What Has Our Society Come To When March Of The Penguins Is The Blockbuster Hit Of The Summer? By Michael Bay, Director, The Island

and the dealmaker: Evangelical Scientists Refute Gravity With New 'Intelligent Falling' Theory, dateline KCK.