11/29: Morning Communique

THESE DAYS

Fatter rear ends are causing many drug injections to miss their mark, requiring longer needles to reach buttock muscle, researchers said Monday.

Despite the support for restrictions, 61 percent of those questioned in a CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll were opposed to a constitutional amendment to ban abortion.

MINNESOTA BLOG OF THE DAY

Kevin M is plowing through a myriad of very bad sex scenes at The Dead Postman.

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TIME WASTERS

Relive an SNL classic as Christopher Walken, Walter Matthau, et al audition for Star Wars.

A craptastic webcam karaoke music performance of "I Will Always Love You" by Whitney Houston

FREEDOM OF SPEECH

"There is just no introspection there at all. It is everybody else's
fault--the press, gutless Republicans on the Hill. They're still in denial."

-- A "card-carrying member of the Washington GOP establishment with close
ties to the White House" describes the current West Wing mindset in a New
York Daily News article by Thomas DeFrank and Kenneth Bazinet

"Chewing through staff like an industrial wood chipper."

-- Longtime GOP consultant Rick Wilson, on senate candidate and Florida representative Katherine Harris's congressional and campaign staff turnover