Friday Roundup

• A LA House panel voted 4-1 to approve a bill that would ban low-slung pants. Bill sponsor/LA state Rep. Derrick Shepherd (D): "In our society we have a line of decency that should not be crossed, and that line starts around the waist area" I guess there aren't a lot of skaters in his district, at least ones that vote.



• "I know the left like I know every inch of my square body" -- Rush Limbaugh on his show today. Talk dirty to me Rush! Limbaugh on the Abu Ghraib prison scandal: "This is no different than what happens at the Skull and Bones initiation [which Kerry and Bush are a part of] and we're going to ruin people's lives over it and we're going to hamper our military effort, and then we are going to really hammer them because they had a good time. You know, these people are being fired at every day. I'm talking about people having a good time, these people, you ever heard of emotional release? You of heard of need to blow some steam off?" Josh Marshall has the best response yet: "You know when you're worked to the bone and you really need to unwind there's just nothing like grabbing a half dozen Arab dudes, stripping them naked, tying their bodies together against their will and pressing one guy's penis up against another guy's butt to make it like they're having anal sex. Right?"



• Arizona Senator John McCain blames Karl Rove for the loss of New Hampshire's "Man of the Mountain," on tape!



• The class of 2004 at William and Mary College are so lucky: Jon Stewart (class of who knows) will return to W&M to receive an honorary doctorate (and give a speech), Stewart once offered this sage advice to W&M students: "If you're gonna go to Nags Head, and you're gonna get high. ... Just wait til you get there. There are a lot of cops on Yorktown Pike."



• Quote of the Day: "Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy" -- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790).