Well, maybe not, but we check the old joint on occasion to see whether John McLaughlin is still wishing us a happy new year. Only this afternoon — the first of the month — the lights seem to be out. (We can still “ping” the server, which is what makes us wonder whether the end is nigh.)

If this is indeed the closing of a chapter in Our Neverending Legend, we thought we’d take this moment to share a logo we proposed early in CP’s existence. It still captures for us the spirit of the site — and this one.

Update, 9pm: McLaughlin’s back! Happy New Year!

Update, Oct. 21: Now it looks like it’s really gone. Except for the Wayback Machine.

Six more things pushing me towards that inevitable psychotic meltdown:

1) D.L. Hughley – I have never sought this person out.  On the few occasions when I’ve been watching CNN and he has appeared, he has not been funny.  Yet his entire job is to be funny.  Why does he have a show, much less a career?

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Crypto-nazi hatecaster Sean Hannity’s show has always been a rallying venue for the chickenhawk, militiaman, neonazi and neoconferederate crowds, but as the reaction to the savage looting of America grew and the prospects of an Obama Administration seemed more likely, Hannity grew ever more enraged and desperate, and finally, extreme to the point of advocating extra-political confrontation with “the extreme left” — basically anyone to the left of Julius Streicher.

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Title: Atlas Shrugged

Author: Ayn Rand

Rank: 46

Blurb: “Atlas Shrugged is the astounding story of a man who said that he would stop the motor of the world — and did. Tremendous in scope, breathtaking in its suspense, Atlas Shrugged stretches the boundaries further than any book you have ever read. It is a mystery, not about the murder of a man’s body, but about the murder — and rebirth — of man’s spirit.”

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Radio Legend Paul Harvey Dies [ABC]

Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum wants you living on the street:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyGtJuYmIRw

Why is this shitbag saying anything?

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Dobson Resigns [Washington Monthly]

Focus on the Family to cut 202 more jobs [Denver Post, 11/17/2008]

Conservatives Pick Soft Target: A Cartoon Sponge [NYT, 1/20/2005]

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