Dana Milbank thinks Snow might be melting.
“Your tolerance level seems to be slipping,” one veteran newsman observed.
“Really?” Snow replied. “Am I getting cranky like you? Wow.”
Turns out, he’s right.

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From ESPN.com:
HILLIARD, Ohio — A high school student who tricked football fans from a crosstown rival into holding up signs that together spelled out, “We Suck,” was suspended and banned temporarily from extracurricular activities for the prank, according to the school’s principal.
Kyle Garchar, a senior at Hilliard Davidson High School in suburban Columbus, said he […]

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Yup. It’s the way he parts his hair. So say the folks at True Mirror and their patented Hair Part Theory.
When a person has a defined hair part, they are drawing subconscious attention of the viewer to the activities on that side of the brain. Left-brain activities are traditionally attributed to masculinity […]

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Yowza. Mike Young and Terry Madonna make the case for Ed as the Democratic veep candidate.
The critical benchmarks for that choice are well established: vice-presidential candidates are vetted for their ideological and personal compatibility with the presidential candidate. They must also pass some minimal test for presidential succession, and they must carry with them […]

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From The AP:
White House pranksters wrapped Rove’s Jaguar in plastic wrap on the private driveway next to the West Wing. Rove’s car is easily recognizable because of its “I love Barack Obama” bumper sticker and the twin stuffed-animal eagles on the trunk. Oh, and there’s a stuffed-animal elephant on the hood. Rove, the top White […]

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This week, Gov. Ed Rendell announced that the computer database used for background checks on teachers, school employees and prospective gun buyers will be shut down from 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 2 until noon on Thursday, Sept. 6 for system upgrades.
 Vs.
Gun activists and retailers are mad because Rendell didn’t ask them for timing suggestions and failed […]

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Here’s an excerpt from a 1990 paper titled “Ideology and Humor Preferences” (by Glen Wilson, published in the International Political Science Review).
Conservatives, compared with liberals, were found to dislike jokes that are overtly sexual and aggressive, although there are signs of a recent reaction against “sexist” jokes among liberal youth. Within the sphere of nonsense […]

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Every year newbie guards at the Lancaster County Prison are challenged to spend a weekend locked in their bathrooms, to understand the creativity of contraband. So their instructor promises. Take food, water and toilet paper, he says, and see what happens in the next 48 hours. No one has ever taken the challenge.
The prison keeps […]

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Hello Everyone! I’m Anya.
I thought we’d start with an uplifting (?) back-to-school nugget.
For those of you sending offspring into the Pennsylvania public school system next week, you might be interested to know that by the time your child graduates high school, he or she will be expected to freely “analyze the concepts of vehicular […]

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I’ll be out of town for a few days. Whilst I’m gone, the New Era’s county government reporter, Anya Litvak, will hold the keys to the kingdom. If anything goes wrong, it’s her fault.

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