Iowahawk has a DIY Letter to the Editor. Fill in the blanks. Like a Mad-Libs!

Don’t vote for a crappy bill in the hopes that it can be changed later; that’s like going out with or marrying a person who has some really bad qualities in the hopes that he/she will change…

Or you’re the mistress and once he divorces his current wife and marries you it will be forever…

because a parent complained that 4th and 5th graders (10-11 year-old children) could look up “naughty” words.

Why do we still let one or two “offended” parents tyranize the rest of us? Why don’t we just tell them where to get off?

h/t Walter Olson at Overlawyered.com…

from the comments at Overlawyered:

What’s this lady going to do when her kid goes to web-dictionaries and discovers that you can make your PC audibly pronounce such terms?

From the ballots for the primary elections, next Tuesday, February 2nd, 2010. * = incumbent (my endorsements at the end, fwiw)

Federal: United States Senator (for the open seat that was Barack Obama’s, now Roland Burris’. Dick Durbin is up for re-election in 2012.)

Democrat

Robert Marshall
David Hoffman
Jacob J. Meister
Alexander “Alexi” Giannoulias
Cheryle Jackson

Republican

Donald (Don) Lowery
Mark Steven Kirk
Andy Martin
Kathleen Thomas
John Arrington
Patrick J. Hughes

Green

LeAlan M. Jones

State Offices

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Nobody’s gonna get the beer away from him…

That’s what Dave Pollak, former NY State Director of the Obama Campaign has to say (just after 6:00 mark) when talking about the Brown win in Mass and whether or not incumbents in general and Dem incumbents in particular might be in danger in November this year. Gretchen Carlson asks him about Obama coming to campaign. Dave Pollak says that he was invited to come campaign for Coakley too late, that he should have been invited weeks earlier, then he says:

But when you talk about the power of incumbency, it sort of reminds me of that scene from Star Wars where Darth Vader chokes the head of the Death Star and says okay now you’re in charge and the guy who’s about to be in charge looks like a total panic, I think that’s what’s going on right now in American politics. The voter is Darth Vader.

This was frozen four cheese ravioli served with a “sauce” made from bacon lardons and one beefsteak tomato, chopped and my left over grape tomatoes that were a little too ripe for salads, with a bit of salt, pepper, and basil. Topped with shredded Parmesan cheese.

It was wonderful!

I took some small steaks and wrapped them with bacon and tied them up with string. I cooked them in the grill pan and then topped them with crumbled bleu cheese.

Served with asparagus and a blueberry and Clementine salad topped with a dollop of Greek yogurt and a sprinkle of brown sugar.

MMMM good.

Ace brings us audio of Martha Coakley suggesting that Catholics perhaps shouldn’t be working in emergency rooms. The question was should health care personnel have the right to be “conscientious objectors” to procedures that conflict with their religious beliefs. Coakely also said that  people can’t decide not to provide services required “under the law and under Roe v Wade”… Note to Martha: Roe v Wade does not require that abortions be provided. It just says it’s legal to provide one.

Via Althouse a list of 40 quotes exemplifying ‘liberalism’ at Right Wing News that she feels “illustrate a theme among today’s liberals that can and should be abandoned.”

Also at Althouse: Dems are trying to equate Coakley with Creigh Deeds. Her loss (if she loses) won’t be a reflection of Barack Obama or the Democrat Party policies and strategies.

The Anchoress has updated her Haiti post yet again. Lots there. Go read.

Charles Krauthammer’s column today.

As Walter Olson puts it: “Actual Funny Lawyer TV Ad”

This morning Patterico informs us Poll: Brown Up by 15 Points

No need to rub your eyes; you read that right.

From an article in the Sunday London Times about the northern hemisphere’s cold winter:

A period of humility and even silence would be particularly welcome from the Met Office, our leading institutional advocate of the perils of man-made global warming, which had promised a “barbecue summer” in 2009 and one of the “warmest winters on record”. In fact, the Met still asserts we are in the midst of an unusually warm winter — as one of its staffers sniffily protested in an internet posting to a newspaper last week: “This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has [sic] already been recorded. For your information, we take the highest 15 readings between November and March and then produce an average. As November was a very seasonally warm month, then all the data will come from those readings.”

So to prove that this is “an unusually warm winter” the British Meteorological Office will take the 15 warmest days from November through April and average those figures to prove the “warmest winter in living memory”.

That doesn’t even give you an average high temperature for the period. You would get that with taking every day’s high temperature and averaging those data. You could do the same to get the average low for the period – take the low temperature for each day and average those data. Your average temperature for the period would be to take the average temperature per day and average those data.

Remember the sentence from the above quote:

This will be the warmest winter in living memory, the data has [sic] already been recorded.

I have put a [sic] after “has” in the above sentence because the word data is plural. The singular form is datum. Data are; data have. Datum is; datum has…

h/t Instapundit