Coulter on the Duke Lacrosse Case

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The lacrosse players denied that any rape had occurred and immediately submitted their DNA to the state, confident that the DNA would prove them innocent.

It did: Not a trace of DNA from any of the lacrosse players was found on the accuser, though this girl had more DNA in her than a refrigerator at a fertility clinic.

-- Ann Coulter, "Stripper Lied, White Boys Fried"

Our Ms. Coulter is as over the top as ever, but she raves in an amusing way, and it does not hurt to get something down on the progress of the Duke lacrosse case, as we have raised the case before.

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Coulter on the Duke Lacrosse Case

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The lacrosse players denied that any rape had occurred and immediately submitted their DNA to the state, confident that the DNA would prove them innocent.

It did: Not a trace of DNA from any of the lacrosse players was found on the accuser, though this girl had more DNA in her than a refrigerator at a fertility clinic.

-- Ann Coulter, "Stripper Lied, White Boys Fried"

Our Ms. Coulter is as over the top as ever, but she raves in an amusing way, and it does not hurt to get something down on the progress of the Duke lacrosse case, as we have raised the case before.

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Living for Today - Monk-Style

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Monk was turned off reading the excerpt of "Casino Royale," but the floodgates have been opened nonetheless. The hit-and-run reading is now open to all fun fiction. In addition to "Shooting Elvis," Monk ordered some Koontz as well as a Hard Case Crime book, and these first-read books are in the queue for the hit-and-run reading.

Monk shrugs, "We're living for today, baby."

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Living for Today - Monk-Style

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Monk was turned off reading the excerpt of "Casino Royale," but the floodgates have been opened nonetheless. The hit-and-run reading is now open to all fun fiction. In addition to "Shooting Elvis," Monk ordered some Koontz as well as a Hard Case Crime book, and these first-read books are in the queue for the hit-and-run reading.

Monk shrugs, "We're living for today, baby."

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Beginners Ranks

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This is the third time that Duke has kept me from advancing, and he is the first of whom I consider to be the intermediate players. Now Monk has to go back down three players into the Beginners ranks and give Sonja another quick fucking over.

Monk is still overlooking the most obvious pitfalls, leaving big pieces exposed and missing the childishly obvious attacks. Like being a little brain dead. But it still feels good the way Monk gets absorbed in these games, and before he knows it, it is thirty moves later and it is a mystery what happened to the time, as Monk falls back in his chair groaning, with his Queen being taken off the board by a fast-charging Knight that seemed to come out of nowhere. Very neat to get lost in another imaginary realm like that.

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Beginners Ranks

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This is the third time that Duke has kept me from advancing, and he is the first of whom I consider to be the intermediate players. Now Monk has to go back down three players into the Beginners ranks and give Sonja another quick fucking over.

Monk is still overlooking the most obvious pitfalls, leaving big pieces exposed and missing the childishly obvious attacks. Like being a little brain dead. But it still feels good the way Monk gets absorbed in these games, and before he knows it, it is thirty moves later and it is a mystery what happened to the time, as Monk falls back in his chair groaning, with his Queen being taken off the board by a fast-charging Knight that seemed to come out of nowhere. Very neat to get lost in another imaginary realm like that.

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Michele Manhart: Babe in Arms

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"I think that the woman's body is one of the most beautiful creations in the world. I don't care who you are," she said. "The body is like art to me. Everybody is their own being and because of that it makes everyone beautiful in their own way. Everyone is their own piece of art."

-- Sig Christenson for The San Antonio Express-News



Yeah, well, perhaps. But, if every body is like a work of art, then her body is like classic Greek or Roman sculpture, whereas my body would be more like some kind of postmodern abstract Dada misconception.

This is the story coming out of San Antonio about Michelle Manhart, a drill sergeant working out of our Lackland Air Force Base, posing naked for Playboy, and who the Air Force has relieved of duties as it decides what to do about her, maintaining that she has violated Air Force standards:

"This staff sergeant's alleged action does not meet the high standards we expect of our airmen, nor does it comply with the Air Force's core values of integrity, service before self and excellence in all we do."

For crying out loud! There is your recruitment poster for you. Just stamp on the words: Uncle Sam Wants You! You put that on a commercial and say, "That would be your drill sergeant, boys, come and get it!"

What is really remarkable about this is that they are having recruitment problems now, for obvious reasons. They are condemning her, and she is the answer staring them in the face with those bedazzling headlights. I give up!

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Michele Manhart: Babe in Arms

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"I think that the woman's body is one of the most beautiful creations in the world. I don't care who you are," she said. "The body is like art to me. Everybody is their own being and because of that it makes everyone beautiful in their own way. Everyone is their own piece of art."

-- Sig Christenson for The San Antonio Express-News



Yeah, well, perhaps. But, if every body is like a work of art, then her body is like classic Greek or Roman sculpture, whereas my body would be more like some kind of postmodern abstract Dada misconception.

This is the story coming out of San Antonio about Michelle Manhart, a drill sergeant working out of our Lackland Air Force Base, posing naked for Playboy, and who the Air Force has relieved of duties as it decides what to do about her, maintaining that she has violated Air Force standards:

"This staff sergeant's alleged action does not meet the high standards we expect of our airmen, nor does it comply with the Air Force's core values of integrity, service before self and excellence in all we do."

For crying out loud! There is your recruitment poster for you. Just stamp on the words: Uncle Sam Wants You! You put that on a commercial and say, "That would be your drill sergeant, boys, come and get it!"

What is really remarkable about this is that they are having recruitment problems now, for obvious reasons. They are condemning her, and she is the answer staring them in the face with those bedazzling headlights. I give up!

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