Liberal Media, My Ass

From Max Blumenthal of The Nation: Just returned from CPAC, where I caught Ann Coulter call John Edwards a 'faggot' (Crooks and Liars has video). The crowd roared their approval, of course. Then Coulter endorsed Mitt Romney. Another gem from Coultergeist: Discussing black Republicans, she declared, 'Our blacks are better than their blacks.'"

Michael Moore, Rosie O'Donnell, or, for chrissakes, Harry Belafonte say something inflammatory about Dubbya, and suddenly every so-called "journalist" is there, brows furrowed in faux concern, sticking microphones in the face of Democrats and demanding they comment on it. So when are we going to see journalists doing this to Mitt Romney?

*sound of crickets chirping*

UPDATE I:

I posted this query on the Romney campaign blog:

Governor Romney, At CPAC, columnist Ann Coulter referred to a Democratic presidential candidate as a "faggot" and said "our blacks are better than their [the Democrats] blacks."

Since Democrats are routinely asked to comment on inflammatory statements by celebrities who support Democrats, I was wondering if you'd care to comment on Ms. Coulter's remarks?

I know it's the "unofficial" blog, but it's the only site that supports comments. We'll see what happens.

UPDATE II:

I found a contact e-mail, policy@mittromney.com, on Romney's site and sent the same query there. I invite interested Hellions to do the same. Politely, of course.

Congratulations!

Congratulations are in order for a couple of friends...first, belated congrats to my buddy Toni L.P. Kelner, nominated for an Agatha for her short story "Sleeping With the Plush." Fingers crossed for you, Toni...it's an honor just to be nominated, as various Hellions have noted.

And to the much abused James O. Born, congratulations on winning Best Novel (popular fiction) in the first ever Florida Book Awards. Good work, Jim...but you realize we'll all be ripping on you again tomorrow, right?

Switzerland Accidentally Invades Liechtenstein.

ZURICH, Switzerland - What began as a routine training exercise almost ended in an embarrassing diplomatic incident after a company of Swiss soldiers got lost at night and marched into neighboring Liechtenstein.

According to Swiss daily Blick, the 170 infantry soldiers wandered just over a mile across an unmarked border into the tiny principality early Thursday before realizing their mistake and turning back.

A spokesman for the Swiss army confirmed the story but said that there were unlikely to be any serious repercussions for the mistaken invasion.

"We've spoken to the authorities in Liechtenstein and it's not a problem," Daniel Reist told The Associated Press.

Officials in Liechtenstein also played down the incident.

Interior ministry spokesman Markus Amman said nobody in Liechtenstein had even noticed the soldiers, who were carrying assault rifles but no ammunition. "It's not like they stormed over here with attack helicopters or something," he said.

Liechtenstein, which has about 34,000 inhabitants and is slightly smaller than Washington DC, doesn't have an army.

We've got our eye on you, you clock making invasion monkeys! One more slip like this and we might just get all Desert Storm on your cheese-eating asses.

Well, I Guess That's Okay Then

Courtney Love praises sheared Spears:

Rocker Courtney Love has offered her support to troubled star Britney Spears - and praised her decision to shave off her hair.

Love - who has herself spent time in rehab to battle substance abuse - claims losing her hair was a good move for the pop princess.

She told website TMZ.COM,, 'I think that was a cool thing she did, I'm dead serious.'"

I actually was trying really hard not to comment on the whole Britney trainwreck, largely for the reasons that Craig Ferguson so movingly goes into here.

But this was just too damn good to pass up. I mean, Jesus. When Courtney Love tells you shaving your head's a good move, shouldn't that tell you something?

"I Find Your Lack of Pants Disturbing..."

25 lines in Star Wars that can be improved if you substitute the word pants.

Maine Again

First Naked Bowling, Now This:

Indoor pot farms a growing trend in rural Maine:

ALFRED - The recent arrests of two men accused of running large indoor marijuana-growing operations in York County is the latest example of what police say is a trend for growers to buy "shell" homes in rural areas.

The innocuous rural locations allow growers to produce year-round crops and operate sophisticated cultivating operations that are difficult for neighbors or police to detect.

These operations are a far cry from the old practice of finding a remote stretch of public land, planting a lot of seedlings and letting Mother Nature do most of the work until harvest time.

Modern growers are virtually professional horticulturists, investing thousands of dollars into growth lights, plant food and automated feeding and maintenance systems. Tens of thousands more are poured into real estate and elaborate heating, ventilation, soundproofing and power systems to conceal their crops.

"On the outside it appears like suburbia, but on the inside they are producing a crop every 90 days," said Roy McKinney, director of the Maine Drug Enforcement Agency.

In 2006, officials seized 2,356 plants in 38 indoor growing operations throughout the state, McKinney said. The year before, officials discovered 71 indoor growing operations, seizing 2,175 plants. The numbers are significant considering there wasn't a lot of talk about major indoor growing operations -- involving hydroponics, automatic lights and crops of hundreds or thousands of plants -- even five years ago, he said. The trend was established by gangs in Canada, he said, who would buy homes or take over abandoned industrial sites to set up large growing operations.

What IS it with you people? Is it the long winters? The dark and brooding landscape? Stephen King hanging around casting his twisted aura over everything? What?