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LoL Saturday

Things that caught my eye in blogs by some League of Liberals members this afternoon (going alphabetically by surname, then by first-name-onlys, then by pseudonyms):

LoL leader Barry Bozeman has some depressing casualty numbers. And that's not counting the thousands of Iraqis we're killing and maiming in the name of liberating them from... um, something. Their resources, I think. New member Stageleft is skeptical that we couldn't count Iraqi casualties if we wanted to.

James Chappell thinks it's news that Guinness is officially good for you, but heck, we've known that in the Riggs household for years. Did I ever mention that one of Robin's mutant powers is, when we're out with a group of people, the ability to order a Guinness and suddenly have everyone at the same table crave a Guinness as well?

Len Cleavelin explains The Differential Theory of US Armed Forces (Snake Model).

Natalie Davis (I'll come back to Reindeer Games soon, Natalie, I promise) says, "Murder, he wrote!" with a great sum-up of Aaron McGruder's appearance on America's Black Forum.

New member Robert Dobbs seems to be into CafePress in a slightly skewed way...

Jo Fish has more damning evidence against Governor-Elect Ahnuld.

PZ Myers warns us of a threat from God, via radical fundie wacko Bryce Gaudian. Wow, I didn't know you could pass the buck that high up!

N. Todd Pritsky reports on an EFF alert that the students (and their ISP!) being harrassed by Diebold are fighting back.

Maru Soze reveals that Bush gave an interview to Murdoch's Sun tabloid, famous for its Page 3 babes. As Gene Kelly's character said in Singing in the Rain, "Dignity, always dignity..." Kriselda Jarnsaxa has also picked up on this.

Mike Stabile examines Bill O'Reilly's desire to run for the White House.

A very happy birthday to Joe Vecchio - and his wife! Go crazy, kids. Someone give Joe a way cool job so he can celebrate in style. Byte Me Back mentions that it's also the birthday of an honorable opponent named Michael. Meanwhile, Futurballa's Rick and his wife are off to Vegas; don't y'all bump into my parents, hear?

BJ (new member?) at The Sesquipedalian provides some needed perspective for people who take this blogosphere thing a bit too seriously.

Dawn notes that China's currently in the lead as far as serial killers go. And what the hey, we aren't even tops in spies any more; Manis2Society reports that the Iraqis have us beat in that category!

Gunther recommends reading up on Kennedy's neurosurgeon.

Hammerdown recommends we stay away from Chi-Chi's hepatitis-linked green onions.

Jesse at The Gotham City 13 visually captures Bush's rhetorical style.

Only eight entries so far in Norbizness' Wolfowitz caption contest?

Northstar creeped me out with his news about the Hungarian corpse. The really tragic thing is, Americans are no less immune to the stupidity of (and confusing real life things with) performance art.

Find out why Pompey at The Felonious Elephant singles out the Ithaca (NY) Journal for this week's Pollyanna Award.

Rick at the Cafe Americain outlines what would make him vote for Bush.

Scout sizes up the competition for this week's New Blog Showcase. Not to worry Scout, we gotcher back.

Veralynne observes that things don't look so good pharmaceutical-wise for oceanic species.

Blogs Canada asks us to just suppose the shoe were on the other foot as far as invasions go...

The Estimated Prophet tracks down where 9-11 terrorist asshole Mohammad Atta actually partied.

Hell for Halliburton says those Enron legal fees are mounting up.

Indigo Ocean catches us up on her "holographic healing" career. Wow, a LoL blogger more into String Theory than me!

Ink from the Squid tells us about rich zoo honcho Damien Aspinall letting a gorilla babysit his daughter Freya. So this is, what, thinning the herd or survival of the fittest?

Awww, the Poison Kitchen has birthed news about the Embrio! Don't you just want to chuck it under its widdow chin? (And where's my friggin' jet pack already?)

New member the Politburo Diktat translates, I think, the Gettysburg Address.

Savage Cruel Bigot says Japan don't want to play the Iraqi soldier game neither, nuh-uh.

The 18½ Minute Gap provides more bad news about health insurance.

And finally, Treason Online celebrates the Bush version of the economic boom, with a 98% increase in bankruptcy filings! Woo hoo, we're Number 1, we're Number 1!