Iraq's Tigris Woods Golf and Country Club

Seriously.

And in the end, maybe that's the answer: absorb them into the Borg (because resistance to luxury commercialism is futile).

Big Turnout for Indiana

And they didn't even have to put gay marriage on the ballot to achieve it.

Over 1.25 million Indianans voted yesterday for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama in the Democratic presidential primary.

Over 1.1 million Indianans voted for Jill Long Thompson or Jim Schellinger in the Democratic primary for Governor of Indiana.

In 2004, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry received 969,000 votes in the state of Indiana...in the general election. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Joe Kernan received roughly 1.1 million votes, just shy of Schellinger and Long Thompson's combined votes in the 2008 primary.

The Democratic vote in the Indiana primary not only clearly outstrips Kerry's total from the general-which is remarkable in and of itself-but it is actually closer to Bush's vote total in Indiana than it is to Kerry's. Bush received 1.48 million votes in Indiana in 2004, 60% of the vote.

So either Dems in general are all fired up and getting involved where they didn't before, or people in general are all fired up and turning Dem, or Indiana folks are all fired up because the spotlight is on them. Regardless, primary numbers like these make me very happy.

Don't get me wrong... I would have been more happy had 51% of Indianians not fallen for a certain someone's paper-thin pandering. But as Donald Rumsfeld would say, you go to elections with the voters you have, not the voters you might want or wish to have at a later time.

Make It Stop

I received a phone call from some Obama staffer soliciting money last night right in the middle of my sacred Hell's Kitchen viewing hour.

I forgave her and donated $20 on the condition that she tells Obama to please get the Hillabeast off my teevee. Hillary and her people are everywhere, like a plague of locusts. I can't stand the thought of another pundit panel discussion with that creepy Lanny Davis.

So, yeah... $20 isn't exactly going to buy me a night in the Lincoln Bedroom. But wouldn't that be a great fundraising idea? "If you want Hillary to just STFU already, send $20 to Obama today!"

He'd break every record in the book.

Moral Relativism

He just wants to be clear about the meaning of the word "monster":

Fritzl, 73 claimed that media coverage was “unfair” and “entirely one-dimensional”, given the fact that he did not kill his daughter and the children he produced with her during 24 years of sexual abuse in a subterranean bunker in Amstetten.

“I am no monster,” Fritzl said though his lawyer Rudolf Mayer, according to the German tabloid newspaper Bild.

“I could have killed all of them, and no one would have known. No one would have ever found about it.”