• Unwelcome fantasies of Rush Limbaugh
• Sounds you didn’t know you were capable of
• Last night’s dinner
• A brief, fleeting vision of the solution to the Rubik’s Cube
• Cowboy Walk

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Title: The Federalist Papers

Authors: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay

Rank: 82

Blurb: “Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.”

Review: “We need to wake up before we destroy the greatest country known to man. Don’t let liberal greed for power win!”

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Reader-submitted humor at WorldNetDaily:

• What is the difference between God and Obama? God doesn’t think he is Obama.
• What do Barack Obama and Bill Clinton have in common? Neither one is an African-American.
• Obama is a very wise man. He has come up with an excellent plan to get distressed homeowners back on their feet. He is going to take away their vehicles.

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We do a great impression of Mr. Ed in the throes of passion — Willllll-bur! — but of course that’s our wicked imagination at work. We’d never engage in that kind of activity in real life. At least not when there are carrots at hand.

But in Florida, a plague of Gene Wilder reenactors are ignoring the local t-shirt stricture “Baaaaa means No!” and creating a dilemma for state lawmakers.

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• Conservatives looking for a distraction from AIG: 1 point
• Liberals seeking to prove they’re capable of criticizing the President: 1 point
• Outrage from people who used “retard” in conversation only hours earlier: 1 point
• Bowlers: 1 point

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“Today there’s another sucking sound going on in Washington, D.C. And that’s the tightening of sphincters on both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.” (Rep. Steve LaTourette, R-Ohio, Thursday)

“From my standpoint, it’s irresponsible for corporations to give bonuses at this time when they’re sucking the tit of the taxpayer.” (Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Tuesday)

We’ve always been amused by the biblical authority of dictionaries in our culture, almost as much as we’re amused by the biblical authority of the Bible. Dictionaries, last we checked, are compiled by harmless drudges, and we consider our judgment as good as theirs. For that matter, most dictionary editors are observers of linguistic usage, not dictators of meaning. Their job is to follow the crowd, not lead it.

That, and provide 300-point solutions to Scrabble problems.

So we’re not surprised that the dictionary meaning of “marriage” has been evolving in recent years, much like the dictionary meaning of everything else. Webster notices that many folks use it to describe any couple in a committed relationship. And the OED sniffs that they’ve always called it “husband and wife”, not “man and woman”.

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