Reader Mail: "What does 'Quid Nimis' mean in [UPDATE] English?"

It means, "Paul Ryan is my homeboy."

I've been scanning the headlines on the web, and the talking points are: bad for seniors, bad for women.

Lemme tell you why the "bad for women" point won't work: Paul Ryan can get away with saying he's pro-life because every woman with eyes wants to have his baby.  And some of the men, too.

And this is the reason the "Scare Granny" gambit won't work:

There are two presidential candidates. Only one, The One, has passed legislation that cuts Medicare, which is already insolvent, by $700 billion.

Wash, rinse, repeat.

Sweet Dreams

[h/t Hey Girl, It's Paul Ryan]

Next up: a Romney/Hey Girl bumper sticker.

Hey Girl

Voting for Mitt just got a whole lot sweeter.

Best tweet from last night: "If Ryan begins his speech with 'Hey girl', I'll donate $1000 to the Romney-Ryan campaign."

Crazed Sex Poodle to Cover Dem Convention

I thought he was giving one of the speeches.  Oh, THAT crazed sex poodle.

It's hard to believe that there was a time when both men were actually hot.

The Veepstakes

Who do you want?  Who do you really think it's going to be?  If you could have one VP debate with a designated hitter against Biden, who would that be (it can be the same as your pick, or a different person.)  

I really want it to be Paul Ryan.

I really think it's going to be Mr. Boring (either TPaw or Portman, odds are Portman.)

In my fantasy football league Vice Presidential Debate, of course it's a Biden-Christie match-up.  Of course.  And the refs don't call time until Christie has regurgitated Joe Biden's hairplugs and flosses his teeth with the earpiece wire.

One of the things I have to deal with

Going to the grocery story with my daughter, who is white, who is an actress, and who decides that she'll stay in character as a girl from the 'hood.  I'm told on good authority that she sounds more 'hood than actual hoods.  

It's the double takes. People wheeling around to see the person who is attached to voice that is decidedly foreign to white-middle-class-with-jogging trails-and-soccer-teams neighborhoods.  The posture is all in character, as are her loud comments, "Oh, I know that's for true" and the exaggerated "unhhh-hunhhhhhh…".  Then they look at me: I mouth, "She's adopted."

Dick Fosbury, Call Your Office

We've found your flop.  It's in the White House.

Why We <3 Jonah Goldberg

From today's Goldberg File:

Oh, speaking of Harry Reid, this morning on Twitter, I was beating the dead horse of Reid's McCarthyite insinuations. I tweeted "Cut Harry Reid some slack, he's breaking in a new set of nipple clamps and can't think straight."

In response someone with the twitter handle @JewishAmericans posted "you are disgusting. comments like that are why people hate jews. please learn to talk with civility."

I love that! Who knew that millennia of cruelty and bigotry aimed at Jews was the result of nipple-clamp jokes and the like?

Speaking of which, AceofSpades is on a long tweetathon about Harry, hashtag: #50shadesofharryreid (or something.)  I imagine it's funny if you've read the book that I won't mention by name, but reading the tweets or even the whole idea of HR having, you know, those kinds of thoughts, is one way to lose weight, and quickly.