Nightly Ramble: That’s a Riot, How Bad have You Gotta Be?, Why the Contest? More.

• Ya know, some folks simply don’t learn from history. “Riots in Denver, the Democrat Convention would see to it that we don’t elect Democrats,” Limbaugh said on yesterday’s’s show, saying also, that’s the best thing that could happen to the

• This has been on my radar screen for a while. But that’s where it has stayed. I’ve been frozen by it and haven’t written a word on it. Apparently that is also where it has stayed, if it got that

• I was a little more than slightly tounge in cheek when I suggested last night that it would take a week for the primary returns to show up. We’ve seen it take just that long in other cases this cycle,

• Look, Billy, I’m somewhat sympathetic to the argument, but let’s not lose sight of the fact that they went to this place with the specific goal in mind of pissing off the constabulary. To what end? Don’t tell me

• Yeah, full moon, tonight. And no, I don’t mean the guy with his butt hanging out the window of the Yugo to your left.  It’s been a weird day, already.
• Your first clue, Billy, should have been when the two

• In talking with a few people, I’ve decided that instead of going for an all in one shot theme change, I’m going to try and use the existing framework, and do a slow change over time. Dabble with the colors,

• Look, gang, right off the bat… any server that goes down under 4000 hits in a few hours isn’t worth much.  Are we clear on this?
• For those of you complaining about Bush’s Global Warming day speech… Gang, I

• Has anyone noticed? Ace did… Obama’s back to wearing a flag pin. Boy, I could make a whole seperate post on the stuff we have on file from when this subject first came up. So does Ben Smith. My

I have to tell you, folks, after a few days of playing with themes for WordPress, I’m disappointed.

As developed, the theme we’re using here… Originally called “Boxy But Gold” (Details and contact links in the page footer) needed a

• April 15th. Tax day. It occurs to me as I watch the mail delivery guy in his jeep dropping off more bills for me to pay, that the tax bill may be due today, but by some estimates we don’t

• Scott Fybush over at NERW reports:

*Former MASSACHUSETTS governor Mitt Romney guest-hosted the Paul Harvey show on Thursday, the latest in a line of personalities helping out with the show in the absence of the ailing Harvey, who’s now 89.

• That’s OK, Jon. Tell ya what; Greenwald can claim I’m pro-torture, if he likes… because under some conditions I am. .. and for all the moralizing that’s been thrown at the issue, nobody’s ever come up with an even

• Look, I for one could care less about The Perky One, unless she wants to appear on ‘The Nude News”…(Just so I can see how far that perkiness extends, mind) But this bit with her and CBS was doomed

• “If there is a mystery at the heart of Barack Obama’s “Dreams From My Father”, one thing is not left a mystery, the fact that Barack Obama organized his life on the ideals given to him by his Kenyan father.

• Is there life in Ipse Dixit? It’s moving for the first time in recent memory, and was noticed by a feed I apparently didn’t remember to turn off, years ago.
• Ah, yes, the typical ploy… if you can’t convince