Withal, as trial lawyers are alternately known as "gunslingers" (it never bothered me a bit...) someone needs to ride into town and destroy two subhuman life forms, if only by way of crushing punitive damages.

It's not enough to have talent, you gotta have character.

Evidently utterly unmanned by fear of alienating the remaining three undecided voters in the country, "Mr. Nice Guy" (aka The Great Left Hope) actually let Willard get away with a version of "Don't bullshit a bullshitter" to his downcast face, viz, "Don't bullshit a father of five sons".

Willard no doubt wishes that he had been able to confiscate all cell phones at the door, but that's a non-starter.

Withal, someone paying 50k to attend (or a beautiful "paid for" guest...), someone surely not in the reviled 47%, did a real number on the guest of honor.

The floor is open for nominations.

I rule out the disgruntled help as too visible and too harried to pull off the taping.

The more I ruminate, the more I lean towards a female hand on the record button.

I love you, baby.

So much attention has been drawn by the proposed substitution of "vouchercare" for Medicare that many voters have overlooked a companion disaster bearing down on them.

A moment of truly spine tingling synchronicity:(cue the Twilight Zone theme music...): Just as Clint Eastwood was proving that 82 is too old to vamp, back in Afghanistan, a member of the people once described as Clint Eastwood in a turban was proving that 70 is not too old to die fighting.

"No fuckin' way". The nurse had asked of I wanted to be resuscitated if my shit went south while they were fixing my broken neck. She was surprised. "Really?" "Really, no heroics. They always work out badly "

Because the Repugnants in the Senate minority routinely refuse confirmation of any presidential nomination, Acting Director Edward De Marco's tenure as overseer of the now nationalized mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac is unprotected from termination by replacement should a new acting director be named.

I have elsewhere voiced my opinion that under the regime of George W. Bush it made sense to conduct one's business as a christian church. The tax benefits alone are substantial. More importantly, your self declared religious enterprise is entitled to numerous exemptions from otherwise onerous public laws

Consistent with my social circles, I encounter very few individuals who are thinking about joining the armed forces. Nonetheless, on the rare occasions when I do, Along with advice to keep your head down so it will not get shot off, I ask if they have thought through the creepy things they will be obliged to do as part of their job.

Fooled ya, suckah! You're thinking that some dude named Price has leaked state secrets. Nope. It's the program without which the beloved free market would instantly render commercial nukes economically unfeasible as they are uninsurable

"Judge, do I look crazy? Of course it was loaded!"

I won't bore you with the details, but anyway, instead of the 60 days in jail that the prosecutor was pushing for, my getting caught with a combat tuned Smith & Wesson chief's special ended me up doing 20 hours of community service at Glide Memorial Church, in San Francisco's Tenderloin, back when it was still skid row.

Just to flesh out the scenario, let us suppose that Scalia blew a brain aneurism reaching for a high note while jovially regaling fellow opera buff Ruth Ginsburg with his favorite Scarpia aria. "Presto, Nino, i fortissimo" urges the cagy Ginsburg, taking quick note of Scalia's reddening face. His body has barely hit the floor when she calmly conveys both the awful news and her own resignation to the White House.