God is my mob enforcer

So, following an election in which eight members of the school board who had supported introducing "intelligent design" to their curriculum were voted out of office, Pat Robertson has warned Dover, PA not to be surprised if God withdraws his protection from them. "Just remember," he tells Dover, "you just voted God out of your city."

Wait, I'm confused now. I thought intelligent design wasn't about religion. It seems awfully mean of God to deliver a town over to disaster just for rejecting intelligent design when its own supporters maintain that it isn't religious.

I remember Robertson warning Orlando in the late 90s that they would be visited by natural and man-made disasters after they extended some symbolic victory to homosexual groups. He's a weird guy.

Dispatch from the Future George W. Bush Presidential Library

You know what the funniest bit is? Picturing Harriet Miers as Eddie Levert.

"Is it me? It's him isn't it?"

After my Master Thespian reference a couple of weeks ago, I seem to be on an 80s Saturday Night Live nostalgia trip (never thought I'd say that...) Coincidentally, NBC is showing a special on SNL in the 80s this weekend. Not looking forward to the inevitable Fernando's Hideaway segment.

I've watched a few White House press briefings recently and can't stop thinking of the Martin Short character Nathan Thurm whenever I see Press Secretary Scott McClellan stammer, pant, and deflect his way through questions. You might remember Thurm as the sweaty, twitchy, spectacled, chain-smoking lawyer character from SNL in the mid-80s who was constantly responding to questions with flat and implausible denials, irrelevant accusations, turning the question back on the questioner, or just not responding at all.

See, for instance, this exchange between McClellan and Helen Thomas yesterday. Now, Thomas can be a bit belligerent at times, but given the mendaciousness of the administration's representatives, her pointed belligerence seems like the best way to get anything out of these things.

Hey, I saw you on TV last night...

Looking over my DirecTV listings, I noticed that C-Span was scheduled to be showing "The Harriet Miers Confirmation Hearings" yesterday evening. Her work picking Sam Alito for the job she's not qualified for over, I imagine it made her cringe as she sat at home watching that scroll by.

Another Judicial Milestone

We could be on the verge of having the funniest Supreme Court in history. Hey, that sounds like a book title. I should write it.