Sick

A Belgian woman who converted to Islam after marrying a radical Muslim carried out a suicide attack in Baghdad earlier this month, say Belgian prosecutors.

This Jew said that yesterday

Catholics call church statement confusing

Pot. Kettle. Etc.

How come Bob Woodward missed the biggest story of our time? I think it's because he's the dumb blonde of American journalism, so awed by his proximity to power that he buys whatever he's being sold.

-Arianna Huffington

I'll disregard the 'biggest story of our time' comment and just ask: Can Arianna really be calling anyone 'dumb'? I'm one of like 4 people that read her book 'How to Overthrow the Government' (I blame Half.com for this, they had it listed as a Peggy Noonan book and I had just discovered Peggy and was plowing through her books) and I would say no, no she really can't.

Via Media Bistro.

Hecklers a sign of a doomed Bush presidency?

Sure, because there were no hecklers at his events right before he crushed John Kerry in the 2004 election.

Click

Dead Programmer has cool old pictures, from Russia, with stories.

The good in the bad

Jane Galt has a great piece about the possibility of Islamofascists winning democratic elections in the Mideast. It's not as bad as it sounds.

Now I think we should pull out of Iraq just to piss off France

Just kidding.

Surreal

Arlen Specter is asking Congress to investigate the Eagles' handling of the Terrell Owens case. U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter is "mad as hell" at Terrell Owens, but he feels the Eagles may have violated anti-trust laws in the way it treated the star receiver.

No hoisting today

Ace and I aren't doing the show today and Rightalk is currently airing a repeat. I hope John in Greenville will be ok.

South Park can save the world

I believe it.

How gay are you?

The Vatican has published a document intended to clarify its position on homosexuals in the clergy. And, well, it’s still rather murky. Apparently, someone who is absolutely, positively, 100% gay can not be ordained. But someone who is sort of, almost, kinda gay can be. If someone has already been ordained, but realizes they are the definitely gay type, that can be worked out. About the latter type:

The cardinal said such a priest "has to try to live in chastity … maybe he will need more spirtual (sic) support than others, but I think he should be a priest in the best way possible."

Try to live in chastity? Are the straight priests merely trying to live in chastity? Isn’t chastity a pre-requisite (and one of the big ones) for priesthood?

I’m not sure how these new rules will benefit the Catholic Church. Won’t would-be priests just pretend to be only kind of gay when they are actually completely so? Furthermore, as I’ve written previously, if priests are supposed to be celibate, what actually makes them gay? If the idea is that all priests, gay or straight, must suppress their sexual urges, what difference does it really make what their sexual urges are, or whom they are directed toward, provided these urges are never acted upon? As far as I understand, and Catholics can correct me if I’m wrong, it isn’t the homosexual thoughts among priests that are the problem here, but the homosexual acts. The Vatican is making a move on this because of the high AIDS rate among priests and in reaction to the child-abuse scandals which almost entirely consisted of abuse of young boys and not young girls.

It gets even stranger when you get into degrees of gayness. The document notes that ‘men with "deep-seated" homosexual tendencies should not be ordained but those with a "transitory problem" could be if they had overcome them for three years.’ It just seems to arbitrary. Why this strange three year mark? And how will they decide what ‘deep-seated’ means?

As I’ve written before, in response to Andrew Sullivan calling for priests to ‘come out’ but it applies here as well ‘If you're gay or straight and can't control your urges for the lifetime that your position demands, perhaps being a priest is not for you. It certainly isn't for everyone. But to have priests come out as 'gay' while not acting on it is beyond absurd. Its really stating your sexual preferences in a setting that isn't conducive to have sexual thoughts at all. It's not about being gay, either, it's just as weird as Father McGrady telling the press he fantasizes about ole' Mrs. Margaret who sits in the third pew on Sundays. It's just not appropriate in the context of their chosen life. Priesthood is about devoting yourself to G-d and not allowing earthly pleasures, like sex, to get in your way of that.’ This new policy isn’t very different from what Sullivan is advocating. It is inserting sexuality in a realm where it just does not belong.

Adam Sandler needs an updated Chanukah Song

Paula Abdul, Pink, Billy Joel and Beck are Jews. Who knew?

I heart Fitty more than ever

Fifty Cent said: "I wanna meet George Bush, just shake his hand and tell him how much of me I see in him."

Funny. And I want to meet 50 Cent.

Click if you understand Russian

Because this is hil-ar-ious.

Stop questioning his patriotism

Ted Rall loves our troops.

Just please never let anyone love me that much.

Song of the Day

"Goddess on a Hiway" by Mercury Rev.

Yes, that's how they spell highway.

Hellllllllloooooo advertisers, where are you?

Celebrity Feud Week (by guest blogger Dorian Davis)

My arguments with the rich and famous...coming December 5 to WWW.DORIANDAVIS.COM!

Pants on fire

This is from last week but the Corner just reminded me of it: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has for forty years said that he was drafted by the Kansas City Athletics.

The claim was included in a brief biography released when Richardson successfully ran for Congress in 1982. A White House news release in 1997 mentioned it when he was about to be named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. And several news organizations, including The Associated Press, have reported it as fact over the years.

Turns out, not so much with the drafted:

But an investigation by the Albuquerque Journal found no record of Richardson being drafted by the A's, who have since moved to Oakland, or any other team...

"After being notified of the situation and after researching the matter ... I came to the conclusion that I was not drafted by the A's," he said.

And to think people worry about Bush starting wars with Iran or Syria

Apparently, the real threat is intergalactic war, according to a former Canadian Minister of Defence and Deputy Prime Minister:

"UFOs, are as real as the airplanes that fly over your head."

Mr. Hellyer went on to say, "I'm so concerned about what the consequences might be of starting an intergalactic war, that I just think I had to say something."

Hellyer revealed, "The secrecy involved in all matters pertaining to the Roswell incident was unparalled. The classification was, from the outset, above top secret, so the vast majority of U.S. officials and politicians, let alone a mere allied minister of defence, were never in-the-loop."

Hellyer warned, "The United States military are preparing weapons which could be used against the aliens, and they could get us into an intergalactic war without us ever having any warning. He stated, "The Bush administration has finally agreed to let the military build a forward base on the moon, which will put them in a better position to keep track of the goings and comings of the visitors from space, and to shoot at them, if they so decide."

Hellyer’s speech ended with a standing ovation. He said, "The time has come to lift the veil of secrecy, and let the truth emerge, so there can be a real and informed debate, about one of the most important problems facing our planet today."

Via The Corner.

No, I didn't root for Drago, Allah.

Philip Klein calls Rocky IV the greatest Cold War movie of all time.

Conversations that bring me no closer to picking a football team

Me: When I left it looked like the Giants were going to win.

My brother's friend Gus, a Giants fan: Yeah, they were going to win. Until their kickers decided to get drunk.

I'm still undecided.

Update: Looks like Ace is a Giants fan.

Yikes

I just came home to a small army of police on my block. It seems a woman was murdered right down the street. My neighbor told me she was a 33 year old woman and she had her throat slit. This Fish lives in her building and has a little more on the story.

Baaaaaaad beat

I am dealt pocket aces in small blind midway through a tournament. There are two callers and then a small raise from the button. I think about reraising but decide to slow play my bullets (don't start with me people, you're about to see it wouldn't make a bit of difference). The flop is K K 10. Ok, yes, I'm in trouble. I check, as do the other 3 players. The turn is an A. I check, the second guy checks, third guy goes all in and the fourth guy calls.

So, clearly I'm calling. I've got the nut full house and I could not be happier about it. I call. The last guy thinks it over and then folds his cards face up: QJ for the straight. The first guy had pocket 10s and, of course, the second guy had pocket kings. "Well, you've still got an out," said a friendly guy at my table. That's true, I could pull the fourth ace for a four of a kind. And I'd love to tell you that that's what happened. But then this post wouldn't be called 'Bad Beat'.

Ann Althouse has problems.

I am not a part of Pajamas Media, I lazy-ed out on filling out the application and missed the boat. I say this to note that, other than the fact that I have respect for many of the people involved, their success is essentially meaningless to me personally. If you haven't been following the launch and the events following the launch, here is the synopsis: a bunch of people, most prominently Ann Althouse, have done gone lost their minds in the criticism of the whole project. I find Ann Althouse's behavior during this whole thing more than embarrasing; but like in other cases where people fall apart in public, I'm like everyone else and can't seem to look away.

Ann has chosen to not just criticize this new venture but cackle with glee with any and every misstep. And despite the fact that her ad pitch on blogads reads 'Arguments are sharp but they are always sane and never nasty and never written in crude language', her rhetoric has stepped over all bounds of civility, including the now infamous 'swapping semen for pus' comment. When the PJM guys pushed back, she cried sexism. I just can't respect that. If she's a strong woman wanting to criticize others publicly, but her arguments are juvenile sexual attacks, then she should be a big girl and take the attacks back at her without crying 'sexism'. She makes the rest of us women look bad. I have all kinds of morons criticizing me, from a fat musician couple in NY who didn't like that me and my girlfriends blogged about going to a strip club, to a lawyer blogger who gets 20 or so hits a day and doesn't like that I'm a happy, excitable person to another PJM obsessive who obviously hates his little life as a columnist of some nothing newspaper and has decided his path to fame and riches will be in joining the PJM complaint squad, but never ever am I going to use the 'but I'm a giiiiiiiiirl' whine to shut them up.

Maybe it's because I'm Russian-born, or maybe it's because I'm Brooklyn-bred, but one of the top lessons I've been taught is that you don't hurt someone that has helped you so much-- no matter what. I'm not saying she shouldn't criticize the venture. I mean, criticize away. But she has gone far beyond criticism, making outrageous accusations, becoming wholly obsessed with wishing for their failure and taking the argument to the lowest common denominator whenever possible. The fact is she would be nowhere without Glenn Reynolds. His constant linking to her put her on the blogosphere map. I hear your guffaws, oh who cares about the blogosphere, hahaha. Well, Ann does. In fact, a lot of her criticism is that PJM doesn't stay true to blogging. Would Ann Althouse be getting $100 a week per ad if it wasn't for Glenn? As they say in Britain 'would she fuck'.

Ronald Reagan is my good luck charm

If you watch or play poker, you'll notice that some people have a little knick-knack that they use as 'card protectors', putting the item over their cards to indicate that they have not folded. For example, Greg Raymer uses a fossil, earning the nickname Fossilman. Usually, it also serves as a good luck charm. I've wanted one for awhile and I finally decided it should have something to do with Reagan. So, I just bought this. I don't know that this will be the permanent token but it'll do for now. Any poker players out there want to share what they use?

Question of the Day

If I'm all done with political campaigns, why have I been looking up the numbers in an Assembly district in Brooklyn all afternoon?

In other personal news, I'm at the 165 mark in my practice LSATs and I'm taking the test a week from today. I'm only planning to apply if I hit 170 as, according to Dawn Summers, even if one doesn't plan to be a lawyer (as I don't; I want to be a lobbyist) you still have to go to one of the top schools in order to get a job when you get out.

Oh, and despite my fascination with the Assembly seat, I am currently looking for a full-time job, so do let me know if you've got any leads.

This woman teaches our children. Our children.

From London Times, via Drudge:

The anti-capitalist freegans — the name combines “free” and “vegan” — are so appalled by the waste of the consumer society that they try to live on the leftovers, scavenging for food in supermarket dustbins.

“It’s fun. It’s a thrill. It’s more fun and more satisfying than just going to the store and saying, ‘I wanted some bread and I got it’. It’s the surprise — and the prize,” said Janet Kalish, a New York high school teacher who describes herself as “60 per cent freegan”.

Best personal ads ever

Esquire magazine has a feature called 'Brutally Honest Personals' "in which single people described themselves without euphemisms or exaggerations or any truth-hedging." See the ugly truth here. Most are pretty horrific but I like this guy. I too sleep with my feet outside the covers and like Thai food and beer and poker nights. And, of couse, it's a plus that he likes redheads.

Via Allah.

Because being a child molesting freak of nature wasn't enough

Michael Jackson becomes an anti-Semite.

I'm just curious:

Did anyone not have turkey?

Lil Kim must be having doubts about her hotness right about now

Hot chicks don't do time.

Wes Clark's entry into adulthood

In a NY Observer story about Hillary's nuanced position on Iraq, Ben Smith has this:

To the Senator, however, immediate withdrawal is the “big mistake,” and her position has drawn fire from the anti-war left and put her in a group of Senators that Marshall Wittmann, a conservative Democrat who is close to Senator John McCain, labeled “the coalition of the adults.”

“She’s a charter member,” Mr. Wittmann said of a group that also includes Mr. McCain, retired General Wesley Clark and Senator Joe Biden of Delaware, who, like Mrs. Clinton, is eyeing the 2008 Presidential contest.

The Democrats must find adults hard to come by if Wesley Clark is considered in this coalition. Just to review, Clark was the Michael Moore-endorsed candidate in the Dem primaries of '04. Mark Steyn wrote this about Clark back in January of '04:

General Clark’s general position is that, as a general, he’s above most positions. Ask him whether he’s pro-war or anti-war and he replies, as he did to the New York Times, ‘I think that’s too simple a question.’ But, if you can find a way to rephrase the question more complicatedly, broadly speaking he used to be pro-war but he’c getting more and more dementedly anti-war with each new setback (Saddam’s capture, the decline in insurgent activity, etc.). Or, as he puts it, ‘I’ve said it both ways because, when you get into this, what happens is you have to put yourself in a position.’ Exactly.

Other 'adult' positions that Clark has taken:

Europe will have first refusal on any US security concerns.

Bush is a deserter.

Gay marriage is wrong because G-d created Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve.

All Americans should have representation. Even if they're stupid and from the south.

Here's Andrew Sullivan on Clark back in September of '03:

If he had been president, the war in Afghanistan would probably not have taken place, let alone the war against Saddam. His first instinct after the deadliest act of war against the American heartland in history was to help the United Nations set up an International Criminal Tribunal on International Terrorism. I'm not even making that up. Maybe Syria, Iran and Saudi Arabia could head up the committee. If I were to imagine a parody of what a Rhodes Scholar would come up with in such a moment, I'd be hard pressed to come up with something more perfect.

Let's also not forget that Clark is the favored candidate for '08 of the Kossacks, do they know about his 'adult' status? I know they wouldn't be pleased.

Nothing wrong with a little luxury....

...even if you are the Pope.

Action.

Two people I was sad not to meet at the OSM (now Pajamas Media) party were Richard Landes and Pedro Zúquete who do a site called Second Draft. Second Draft highlights staged events by Palestinians, specifically to get widespread media attention. Watch the Pallywood movie, it's really eye-opening.

Free booze around NYC

This is the coolest site ever.

Today, 4-5pm EST

(Click this graphic to listen)

Our guest will be Peter Schweizer, Author of Do As I Say (Not As I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. Call in 866-884-TALK.

If the government can't kill it, the criminals will

Poker Room in NYC robbed at gunpoint

Via Dawn Summers.

Give that Minister Sochua a promotion.

Gary Glitter, who was convicted in the UK on child porn charges, arrested for child rape in Vietnam.

Boy did Cambodia make the right call back in April.

A hip-hop gossip question

Is it true that BET's Free is pregnant with/has given birth to Jay-Z's baby? Or is this rumor total nonsense? I count on Perez Hilton for all my celeb gossip but he's got nothing on this story and I've heard this from several different people now.

Seeking team. Cute quarterback a plus.

I'm not a big football fan but, as most of my friends are of the male pursuasion, I'm often in a football-watching situation. My brother and a great majority of my friends are Jets fans. And, well, the Jets are having a really, really bad season. Like the worst possible, I think. Are they on their 5th Quarterback at this point? In any case, I like having a team to root for and my options seem to be limited to these:

NY Giants- I guess this is the reasonable alternative to the Jets but it seems awfully frontrunnerish to root for the Giants this year. I may, just for NY pride, though.

Dallas Cowboys- One of my best friends is a Cowboys fan but he's the only fan I know. Seeing him hop around the room last Monday night when the Cowboys pulled off a stunning last-minute victory was pretty fun.

Houston Texans- David Carr. Yummy David Carr. Mmmmm David Carr.

I'm open to other suggestions.

I feel like I've seen this someplace before

Over on Talking Points Memo, Josh posts an email from a Democratic reader, someone who observed the Kerry campaign 'fairly up close', on the GOP response to Murtha:

I was not the least bit surprised by the attack on Murtha (remember how they attacked Kerry). I'll bet you a dollar that the Democratic response (if there is one) will be a) unorganized (from Biden through Dean), b) incoherent (or at least internally inconsistent), c) slow, d) measured, and e) cerebral. All the wrong things to do. What they need to do is show some blood and gore, use a couple of veterans, and ask the question -- is this worth it? If it is, why are the families of Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, Delay, Hastert, Rumsfeld et. al. not on the front lines? As we say in Marketing, an anecdote is worth a thousand data points.

Blood and gore? Howard Dean was the angriest little man in the land back in '03.

Using veterans? Kerry did plenty using of veterans. Then the veterans didn't like that and Kerry's Swiftboat Vet nightmare began.

The chickenhawk argument at the neo-cons? Oh c'mon. What is this, 2002?

Asking if it's worth it? Kerry said Bush 'misled every one of us' back in June of '03.

The Democrats really need some new material if this is considered innovative enough advice to post on TPM.

Via Ragged Thots.

Update: Welcome Instapundit and Vodkapundit readers. Just a quick note, my comment section is a little wonky. If you get an error message, that just means your comment is being held for my approval. Please do not repost the comment. Thanks for visiting!

And it's not just because it's 6am

I'm back to not understanding Plamegate: Rice Says She Wasn't Woodward's Leak Source

George Galloway: Not anti-war, just on the other side

Proof here.

S-t-crooked I-d-e-s-

Chicago politician wants to ban 40oz beers.

I was a St. Ides fan in my youth, but most of the guys I hung out with drank Olde English 800 or Crazy Horse. I saw a lawyer drinking a 40 at a poker game recently. He fascinated the hell out of me sitting there with a 40 in his hand while I was drinking a 12 oz Brooklyn Lager. The politician's reason for wanting a ban? 'The people who buy this usually do not have the money to buy a six-pack or more.' O-k.

Credit where credit is due

Sometimes, the Republican party is a weak-willed, wishy-washy, scared-of-its-own-shadow excuse for a majority party.

And then other times it's not.

Funny that

I don’t want to visit the abortion debate right now, but it does strike me as odd that the same liberals who would jump all over you if you don’t use the current politically correct term for somebody with Down syndrome (whether it’s retarded, mentally handicapped, mentally challenged, etc.) will defend a woman for aborting a baby simply because of his handicap.

-Philip Klein

Notice

Dawnie and I are going to see Walk the Line at the AMC theatre on 42nd street at 3:45pm, in case anyone wants to join us. I'm headed to the aformentioned Republican Riot comedy show right afterward, and everyone is welcome to come to that too.

Update: Dawn cancelled on the movie, I may still go but not sure. I am, however, definitely going to the comedy show so do come.

I could not be more shocked.

Headline: I took Saddam's cash, admits French envoy

Song of the Day

'The drugs don't work' by The Verve.

I've been in a mellower mood than during my recent hip-hop kick.

I'll be there, anyone else?

Nov. 18, 2005, 6:30pm: (seating starts at 6): A rare Republican Riot starring The NY Post's Robert George and a visiting Julia Gorin (fresh from her comedic spread in December's "Penthouse") from Las Vegas. Special Guests: Dave Rosner "U.S. Marine Veteran, Comedian, Jew" and Greg Banks "the only gay Republican comic willing to admit it" Don't Tell Mama Cabaret, 343 W. 46th St. (between 8th & 9th Avenues). Reservations (call after 4pm): 212-757-0788 $10 cover (again, those shysters accept only cash).

We'll confirm, then rejoice

"They’ve killed me so many times," he joked. "They kill me every day. The day that I really die, nobody will believe me."

-Fidel Castro on rumors of his death.

Yeah, it's called the 'Imagine' album

Headline: Lennon speaks - and blasts McCartney; Tapes to air in UK...

Seriously, they can just play 'Crippled Inside' and 'How Do You Sleep' to get Lennon's feelings on McCartney out there.

This post took over 3 hours to write.

I've been pretty underwater for the last few months and I didn't even hear about the big 'Open Source Media' launch that happened in my city yesterday until just the day before. I called the organizer on the day of the event and asked if it was too late to RSVP. He assured me that it wasn't and that the party would be at the W Hotel at 6pm. 'Which W,' I asked since there are 5 or 6 throughout the city. 'The one on Lex', he said. There are 3 W's on Lex. 'The one with Wet Bar in it?' I asked, guessing the 40th street location. 'Yes!' he replied. Of course, no, that wasn't the one and I ended up walking up Lex in the rain, not at all bitter.

The first person I saw was Mr. Ace of Spades smoking cigarettes outside the place. That didn't seem promising. Not that Ace isn't generally smoking cigarettes wherever he is, just that there were free drinks and famous bloggers upstairs and smoking cut into drinking/shmoozing time.

We walk in to the party and the first person I run into is Evan Coyne Maloney, confirming that this party is the place to be because Evan is the harbinger of a good times. It was a little awkward because Ace has this huge crush on him but Evan took it all in stride.

Inside, it's like blogger-celebrity overload. I don't know where to start because there are all these familiar faces. So, I start where I always start- the bar. Let me just say that the booze at the party was really top notch. I can't remember the last time I was at an open bar event that had Grey Goose or Ketel One vodka. The OSM boys know what's up.

Here are some of my highlights of last night:

I've been a huge fan of Cathy Seipp since discovering her a million years ago in the NY Press. I always find her so refreshingly candid. She doesn't take any crap and she's not afraid to write what's on her mind. She also has this amazing daughter who is brilliant beyond her years. Anyway, here's a pic taken on my phone of Cathy+Me:

Cathy and I had a funny conversation with Andrew Breitbart and his beautiful wife, where Andrew was describing something and gave us the initials 'HF' to figure out what he meant. Apparently, this is an Andrew trick to avoid saying something dirty and I totally fell for it.

I saw Steve of Vodkapundit, who I had had the pleasure of meeting last year when I was in Colorado. Regular readers of my site know that I'm not a particularly mushy person but when Steve talks about his wife and his marriage, it makes me want to run out and get hitched. 'Best thing I ever did', he said while drinking his, uh, Merlot (well, he can't be perfect, can he). So cute.

A really cute couple in attendance was Steven I. Weiss and Rachel, who recently started a dance blog called Downtown Dancer. They invited me for Shabbot dinner and I told them my problem of finding a synagogue in Manhattan that isn't compulsively trying to marry off the young people.

One of the most amazing people I met last night was Lisa Vincent, who I've written about before here, the widow of journalist Steven Vincent who was murdered in Iraq. We talked for awhile at the party and then took a cab downtown together when we both had to go. Steven is buried at Greenwood cemetary in Brooklyn, where my grandmother and her sister are buried too, and Lisa and I made plans to go visit his grave.

I had some fun conversations with the blogger at Sense of Soot, who happens to live all of three blocks away from me. Small world.

I also met Pamela of Atlas Shrugs who was nice yet kind of intimidating and told me that I have good skin. I answered that I partied too much for that to be true and she told me it'll all show up when I'm older. So, you know, I've got that to look forward to. Pamela has some great pics here and here.

I also had a funny late, late night conversation (I actually left the party because I had to go Archives Listening Project and came back to the W around midnight with two of my hottie girlfriends, Lon and Mil, but everyone had apparently gone to bed) with Magnus, the tech guy for OSM. Funny Swede who refused to tell me the URL to his anonymously written blog. I'm pretty sure he gave me some clues to google but hell if I remember any of them, which I think might've been the intention.

Obviously, everyone there wanted to meet Glenn Reynolds. He was talking to Evan when I came over to introduce myself. It's been said before, but Glenn Reynolds is a man of men. While I'm just getting around to blogging at like 2pm because I woke up really hung-over after all that free Ketel One, Glenn has already blogged a week's worth of news, and, I believe, is traveling back to Tennessee. Also, while I'm a big fan of myself, I realize I'm a virtual nobody in the blogosphere. My thousand or so hits a day is what Glenn gets in around 10 minutes. And he actually knew my site, which is unbelievable and just proves how much he is able to store in that big brain of his. Evan was saying that he sees Glenn as a bellwether of American politics, since he's not a partisan and seems to call things as he sees them. I noted that I love him and my super liberal 'friend' loves him so I can see Evan's comment being quite true. During the conversation, Glenn said to me 'you know, I hope you don't mind me saying so but you're a lot younger and cuter than I thought you be.' I took it as a great compliment (Instapundit thinks I'm young and cute! Instapundit thinks I'm young and cute!) but it did get me thinking that conservatism is just so often associated with stodginess. I try to mix it up by throwing in hip-hop or debaucherous tales from previous nights, but I still come off as old. Even more alarmingly, I seemingly come off as not cute. How does one fix that?

I very excitedly met Charles Johnson and got to see Roger Simon who I had had the pleasure of meeting during the RNC convention last summer.

I saw two of my favorite DC boys, Kevin of Wizbang and Mike Krempasky. It was unfortunate that they couldn't stay in NY longer, those two are always a good time.

Tim Blair is beyond hilarious. I'm pretty sure I just giggled the entire time we talked. He's in NY for the next few days and then going on some cross-country expedition so bribe him into meeting you for drinks and be ready to laugh your ass off.

I briefly met Stephen Spruiell of National Review's Media Blog and he promised to invite me to future NR poker games since this guy has been totally slacking on the invite.

There's a pic of me with LaShawn Barber, Cathy Seipp, Astute Blogger and Asher Abrams over here.

I also got to see some of my favorite NY bloggers some of whom have varying wrap-ups of their own:

Young Curmudgeon here, here, here and here.

Kesher Talk

Brain Terminal

Urban Grind

And some who don't:

An Unamplified Voice

Cake or Death?

Englishman in NY

Exit Zero

UPDATE: I totally forgot to note that Allahpundit is a big loser for not showing up because so many people mentioned him and wondered if he'd be there. Boooo Allah, boooo.

Blogroll Update

NY:

News Copy

NYYRC Record (blog of the state-affiliated NY Young Republican Club)

I feel like I told someone else I'd blogroll them in my next update but I can't remember who.

Update:

Also in New York I've added the Astute Blogger and