SNAWWU

And you thought the drones were just for our enemies: I thought I was joking about this.  It turns out, it's true.

Best Read of the Week: Mark Steyn.

The trouble is it isn’t tough, not where toughness counts. Who are the real “Untouchables” here? In Moscow, it’s Putin and his gang, contemptuously mocking U.S. officials even when (as with Secretary Clinton) they’re still on Russian soil. In Tehran, it’s Ahmadinejad and the mullahs openly nuclearizing as ever feebler warnings and woozier deadlines from the Great Powers come and go. Even Obama’s Nobel Peace Prize is an exquisite act of condescension from the Norwegians, a dog biscuit and a pat on the head to the American hyperpower for agreeing to spay itself into a hyperpoodle.

Biden's Week: One day, the Wall Street Journal reveals that the expert analysts couldn't base a military strategy on his hare-brained propsals (his own staff had to pull something out of the nether reaches to counter General McChrystal's recommendations); three days later, the Washington Times finds him comparable in many some a few in one way to Cheney, in the same week that the first Cheney takes the chainsaw to aforesaid hare-brained proposals.  Sandwiched between, this little gem:

Asked what he thought about criticisms former Vice President Cheney had made about the Obama administration, Vice President Joe Biden told reporters “Who cares what – ” and then stopped himself.

The Ladies Are Restless: I, too, was annoyed about the "all boys" basketball game.  Kathleen Sebelius played in college, for heaven's sake: she's shut out, but Timmy The Jockey plays?  This is taking affirmative action too far.  But we all know why it has to be this way:  females would get in the way of all the man-crushy mojo. 

Now Joanne Lipmann whines in an OpEd for the NYT (h/t J-Rub, Contentions.)  It's another "Oh, gawd" moment: she blames 9/11 for the flatlining of "women's progress" then veers off into "But we need to measure progress differently" because "women are different from men." So, by the new metric, women are really doing well, right?  Uh, no.  Forget it, Joanne: everyone knows that it's your progress you're worried about.  You're out of a job and you're projecting.  Get a grip, honey.

Not to be outdone, MoDo is on a tear about nuns being second class citizens in the Catholic Church.  Breaking news from Nought-A.D.

Michelle as you've never seen her:  Is it my imagination or is that hula hoop fitting a little more snugly these days?  I confess, I love the "home movie" quality of this video, especially the part where she kinda runs off into the woods... oh, darn, she comes back.  Watch out- double dutch disaster!  I think she and Kathleen should just crash the damn basketball game and show the boys some moves, like a few personal fouls (is there a right hook in basketball?)

Yay for the Underdog, er, Underbird!:

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"[...] is there a right hook in basketball?"

There is when she plays.