Can someone please explain to me WTF is up with the Bolton nomination? A cloture vote was called for and voted down just a little bit ago -- i.e., he got filibustered, debate continues, and he's not getting his up-and-down vote yet. But Voinovich, who apparently had given a passionate speech about Bolton's awfulness, voted for cloture and Bill Frist voted against. Wha-huh?

(eta: I think the vote against cloture was mostly Dems, and Frist. Guh??)

I have to admit, I need that, if I'm to step up the "no, you don't want my porn" plate.

I never thought I would regret not saving the URL of the werewolf slash online comic book that I ran across once while looking for sites about the Fox TV show. But if I remember correctly it was in similar manga-like style, only with claws and fangs and less clothing. Would have been great for your purposes if you could hold the laughter in.

Have you considered Dave Quinn/Tim Vigil comics? Disturbing porny images with lots of fighting and more bloodshed than Kill Bill.

Updates to Merlin's list of 5ives:

Five fake urban myths I’d like you to earnestly share with your friends and colleagues
1. Computer hackers can now steal anyone’s underpants using their own PC
2. “Starving” people in Africa spend most of their aid money on big-screen TVs, pole-dances, and perfectly good food that they just throw away
3. There is actually no “Norway”—it was invented in the mid-’40s as part of an MGM publicity stunt
4. Studies show there’s more feces on your doorknob than there is in an actual pile of feces
5. There’s a little girl in Arkansas named Ashley-Marie who has full-blown entitilitis, and she’s praying that everyone in America will breakdance for her at noon next Monday

Five things I’d like to see engraved on little rubber bracelets
1. Nap Strong
2. My Other Bracelet is Fighting Colon Cancer
3. America: Shut Thy Pie Hole
4. Kiss Me, I’m Trendy
5. Please Watch Arrested Development

Five favorite spoodely-spoodely guitar solos
1. “Eruption” - Van Halen (Eddie Van Halen)
2. “Hot on Your Heels” - Steeler (Yngwie Malmsteen)
3. “Stairway to Heaven” - Led Zeppelin (Jimmy Page)
4. “One” - Metallica (Kirk Hammett)
5. “Bohemian Rhapsody” - Queen (Brian May)

Five words Madeline would just as soon I stopped using for a while
1. orthogonal
2. notional
3. sciolist
4. functionality
5. janky

Five ways to save The O.C.
1. have Ryan start punching preppies at parties again
2. more Julie Cooper in fuzzy track suits
3. new haircuts for everybody
4. Bring back Jimmy Cooper
5. keep not having Oliver on

Disturbing porny images with lots of fighting and more bloodshed than Kill Bill.

These are krav people. I don't want to turn them on.

Ah, I misunderstood and thought you meant co-workers at the other job. You're right about the Tim Vigil artwork not being especially off-putting to folks looking to learn how to do some of the damage from the comics.

N'Sync manga porn is clearly the way to go.

Heh. The 826NYC Superhero Supply Store has a softball team.

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BULLETS SHOOT DOWN SUPPLIERS, 25 - 2 Can of Evil Opened in First Inning
The DC Comics bullets crushed the Superhero Supply Company softball team in Central Park's North Meadow last Thursday, scoring 25 runs before the game was called in the fifth inning on account of darkness and also so that the teams could eat quesadillas.

826NYC Education Director Joan Kim and Volunteer Michael Coviello scored the only two runs for the Superhero Suppliers.

Joel Press, manager of the Bullets, revealed that their team had opened a Can of Evil purchased from the BSSCo. While the use of Canned Evil is not specifically forbidden by the League of Superpowered Athletes, it is considered extremely gauche and congressional hearings on the matter have been scheduled.

There’s a little girl in Arkansas named Ashley-Marie who has full-blown entitilitis, and she’s praying that everyone in America will breakdance for her at noon next Monday

I must send this to everyone in my family who sends me stupid emails.

And the subject header should be, PLZ FWD IF YOU LOVE AMERICA

I think when people try to be charismatic, they only succeed in being creepy.

I think it is also in the eye of the beholder. Witness. Whatever. See, I've got this friend from way back. Even way back, his "public" persona drove me absolutely insane. So ...slick. Smarmy. Total politician/car salesman. I couldn't help but squirm when he played it.

What was even stranger? People loved it. Ate it up.

It totally worked for a lot of people, and not people I could be all snobby about and say they were getting snowed. People whose judgment I really trusted.

I didn't get it. I still don't. I know others who don't as well.

We ended up being friends partly because he annoyed me so fucking much and I was stuck sitting next to him most of my years of high school. You snipe with a person long enough...

He's a nice guy. He was genuine. But the persona drives me nuts. But he's very successful with it. It gets him in all sorts of places.

Of course, I'm someone who flees from any sort of sales pitch, so maybe I'm the weird one.

I have a critical decision to make in the next half hour.

I'm splurging on a huge high calorie supper uber fattening supper to kick off my long weekend.

Pizza, or Chinese?

On the one hand, fried rice, dumplings, sesame chicken...mmmm.

On the other, melty melty cheese...mmmm.

Chinese, definitely.