For eating plants and barfing on the rug, ten minutes in kitty jail.

"He's a shoot-from-the-hip kinda straight-talkin' guy, with a lot of spunk, and he can pound 'em like I used to, before Laura took my fun away. He claims he's got a solution, which is what we're lookin' for..."

Joining Rox Pop, TBogg, and Pharyngula, here's the American Idle Friday Random Ten:

1. Caravan - Groove Junkies
2. Start! - Beastie Boys feat. Miho Hatori
3. Murder (Or A Heart Attack) - Old 97's
4. Good Night - The Beatles
5. Enlightenment - Van Morrison
6. Fly - Nick Drake
7. Green Eyes - Coldplay
8. He Wants You - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
9. News Of The World - The Jam
10. The Kissaway - Mates of State

Tell me yours!

Thought the story of conservative creationists losing control of the Kansas Board of Education below the ad featuring the middle-manager monkey was amusing. (Click to enlarge the screenshot)

UPDATE: A variation on the theme

Vincent J. Fuller, the famed Washington attorney who successfully defended would-be presidential assassin John Hinckley, died last week of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Hinckley shot President Reagan, press secretary James Brady and two law enforcers, outside a Washington hotel on March 30, 1981. Retained within hours of the shooting, the lawyer centered his defense on Hinckley's mental state, maintaining the gunman was delusional, insane, and obsessed with the actress Jodie Foster. During Fuller's career he also defended boxer Mike Tyson and Teamster union boss Jimmy Hoffa. He was 75.

Actor Mel Gibson entered rehab after his arrest on suspicion of driving under the influence and being an anti-Semitic douche bag.

Gov. Mitt Romney has apologized for referring to the troubled Big Dig construction project as a "tar baby" during a fundraiser with Iowa Republicans, saying he didn't know anyone would be offended by the term some consider a racial epithet.

In a speech Saturday, Romney, a Republican considering a run for president in 2008, acknowledged he took a big political risk in taking control of the project after a fatal tunnel ceiling collapse, but said inaction would have been even worse.

"The best thing politically would be to stay as far away from that tar baby as I can," he told a crowd of about 100 supporters in Ames, Iowa.

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