Mrs. Xrlq’s rescue group, Underdog Rescue, was alerted by a local vet that 12 pit bull puppies were turned in by a breeder to be euthanized. Why, you might ask? Because their fur turned out to be a different color than he/she/it was aiming for.

I don’t know which is worse; the fact that Alexander Cockburn is praising Harry Browne, or the fact that Nick Gillespie is proud of that.

The Angry Clam is no more.

The Angry Clam is no more.

Apparently, Dr. Menlo can’t/won’t tell the difference between freedom of speech and endorsement of ugly speech. He offers this quiz (hat tip” Venomous Kate) that likens Charles Johnson’s excellent blog to the Nazis. This comparison is based not on anything Johnson has posted, but rather, by hand-picking a few of the most deranged comments that have been left on his blog by readers. He non-explains this inferential leap thusly:

Yes, the quotes I’ve used here are all “cherry-picked” – from LGF and the Nazis both – but since the webmaster patrols LGF pretty thoroughly it’s fair to say that his site is as defined by what he allows (e.g., calls to “sterilize” the “subhuman” Palestinians) as it is by what he doesn’t (e.g., criticisms of Israel or George W).

Can anyone corroborate that? I don’t read LGF all that often myself, but this is the first time I’ve heard anyone seriously argue that Charles Johnson deletes all comments that are critical of either Israel or George W. Bush. Even if that is true, which I doubt, it might be worth pointing out that hating terrorists for murdering innocent Jews is one thing, and hating innocent Jews for simply being Jewish is quite another. But we wouldn’t want any actual facts getting in the way of a good rant, now, would we?

For what it’s worth, I scored a 92% on the quiz.

UPDATE: If you take the quiz, be sure to log your score here.

UPDATE: Here’s a competing quiz.

The last two “From the Blogs” pieces to run in the L.A. Daily Journal were from Bear Flag League members Justene Adamec and Patterico, in that order. This week’s was from someone who isn’t a BFL member, but should be: Eugene Volokh.

Every once in a while, when I start to wonder to myself how the Dog Trainer stays in business despite putting out such obviously biased tripe, I go and read a few letters from the dogs they train. As usual, today’s letters on Bush and Iraq did not disappoint. Sure, they got in a token reasonable letter by Carole Larcom of La Verne and some token snark John Waugen of Anaheim in the middle, but those letters were written in response to other letters that had run earlier. The other four were not. Here’s what those luminaries have to tell us:

1. Phyllis Lilly of Ridgecrest didn’t like President Bush’s answers to the have-you-stopped-beating-your-wife questions posed by the media on Tuesday, concludes from this that he must be illiterate. She also plays the age card, as if to suggest anyone who has managed to stay alive for 73 whole years must be right. She seems to overplay her hand just a tad in that department, having prefaced her rant with “In my 73 years, I have never seen or heard such stumbling, bumbling ignorance by an American president.” Color me skeptical, but I have to doubt whether even the world’s most precocious one year old would have been able to discern “stumbling, bumbling ignorance” from sheer brilliance during the 1932 election (which, of course, was not televised).
2. Henry Mendell of Los Angeles thinks the Phillipines are a U.S. colony, that the U.S. was the aggressor against Japan in World War II, and that it, not the Khmer Rouge, was responsible for murdering millions of Cambodians in the 1970s.
3. Florence Brawer, also of Los Angeles, can’t figure out why Iraq’s material breach of numerous U.N. resolutions caused the U.S. to invade it rather than Saudi Arabia, which has violated none.
4. Jan Hart of Anaheim wants us all to know that wars sometimes kill people.

Maybe you McCainiacs should try reforming this. Better still, how about admitting that what you really want to reform is this?

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