Erinaceous! Your post in Press reminded me that I heard you on the radio this morning.

I was wondering if that was our erinaceous. I missed any introductory name, but as I was listening I was thinking "she sounds like a buffista."

Speaking or Erin, today's Weird and Wonderful Word is Buffista-riffic:

singerie
[san-zhuh-REE]

a decorative style using pictures of monkeys, often wearing clothes or indulging in other anthropomorphic behavior. From a French word meaning 'monkey business; a collection of monkeys'.

monkadonia.

Singe (the french word, not the english) is one of the most fun words to say. Especially with an affected quebecois accent.

Especially with an affected quebecois accent.

Especially when said by a man with a pencil-thin moustache wearing a red velvet jacket and fez.

I don't know why that image popped into my brain.

My new home decor style is totally going to be singerie.

James Dobson, building a bridge to the 18th century. He's railing against the evils of Marbury v. Madison, the 1803 case that established the concept of judicial review of the constitutionality of executive and legislative decision.

You read right. 1803. Eighteen-oh-three. He wants to undo 202 years of precedent because he has a hate-on for judges.

He also thinks Anthony Kennedy is the most dangerous man in America, and should be impeached, along with every other justice on the court but Rehnquist, Thomas, and Scalia. Here's the full text of the rant: [link]

Vile, evil man. I'm starting to hate him more than I do Bush and Cheney. The way this is going, I wouldn't be surprised if someone tries to assasinate Kennedy in his home or bomb the 9th Circuit Court.

Do you have a lee-sahnse for your minkey?

Happy Birfdays to Beej and beth!

The Blue Jays and Red Sox are playing the Patriot's Day game from Fenway. It was an 11am start. My buddy is giving me pitch-by-pitch by icq from his mlb.tv feed.

James Dobson

Scary guy with the ear of the president and lots of followers. At least so far it doesn't seem like the crusade against Judges has caught on beyond the far right.

James Dobson, building a bridge to the 18th century.

Huh.

So someone wrote a book called James Dobson's War on America. Which isn't surprising that someone would write such a book, but what is surprising is the author: "former Focus [on the Family] vice-president Alexander-Moegerle."

From Amazon (which got it from Publishers Weekly ):

It's no secret that Dobson, as Alexander-Moegerle writes, advocates "smaller government, larger defense, the elimination of the Department of Education and the NEA, and the barring of women and homosexuals from military service." Alexander-Moegerle relies on his more than 15 years of close contact with Dobson to paint a portrait of Dobson as an autocratic manager hungry for political power and recognition. According to the author, Dobson's Nazarene belief that he is sinless and morally perfect results in Dobson's stance that he is morally superior to others, even his employees. Such a stance, combined with Dobson's apparent sexism, racism and homophobia, and his ability to lobby Capitol Hill with "500,000 to 1 million phone calls and letters within hours," according to Alexander-Moegerle, seem to make Dobson a tremendous political threat to the pluralism and diversity of political views in America.