The Great Debate

Lincoln and Douglas have nothing on the great Latkes v. Hamentashen debate. Which is the ultimate holiday food? There is a book on the subject, debated annually at the University of Chicago. One website (above) proposed these topics for discussion:

• Shape: Two hamantashen glued together to form one of the ultimate Jewish symbols – the Star of David. BUT The latke is the circle of life!
• Name: Hamentashen, stands for ears of Haman. "Would you like to eat the ears of the villain?" Latke is Yiddish for pancake - can you be more Jewish?
• Health: "The latke could be an easily banned substance in New York City" (trans fat ban)
• Popularity: "Citing Google, which returns an impressive 380,000 hits on a search for "latke" and only 62,000 for "hamantaschen"
• Literary: "But soft, what latke through yonder window breaks?"
• Materialist-Feminist (Penn): "For women, it is clear that hamentashen offer far more scope for self-realization, egalitarian relations, and social progress than do latkes."
• Variety: Hamentaschen have so many variations (prune, fig, jelly, apricot) while Latkes are burnt or not burnt
• Duration: Last time I checked you get 8 days of Latkes, and only 1 of Hamentashen (2 if you are in Jerusalem)
• Dressing: Latkes rely on apple sauce or Sour Cream for taste, while Hamentaschen can stand on their own.
• Taste: You be the Judge.

EXIT POLLS SAY.....

"I shoot for the stars, and often hit Senators." Werner Von Bush

The Sub Prime Loan Gunman, paranoid blogger of Conspiracy theories, reports that the missile fired in the Pacific that was ostensibly aimed at a falling spy satellite veered off course and took down the helicopter carrying three Democratic Senators that oppose the Bush Administration. Is it a coincidence that the helicopter went down the same day they shot at the satellite? There are no coincidences if you're just paranoid enough.

Miss Congeniality

Miss Congeniality? Yes, I do.

Mitt "Mittens" Romney has dropped out! Now we're poor little kittens who've lost our mittens!

Hillarycare--what's deductable about it?/ Uniting the Republicans?

I was watching MSNBC (which is NBC with a bad case of Microsoft) and some snide Republican commentator talked about Hillarycare. I don't think he was comparing it to Republicandon'tcare....
There is one candidate that does seem to be able to united the Republicans and engerize their base--Hillary Clinton.

My Client's Signing Statement

Recently I settled a case for a client. The other side drafted an agreement along the traditional lines: he admits certain things, agrees the other side did nothing wrong, agrees that the agreement is no precedent for anything and cannot be used in any other forum, each side would not make statements about the settlement or disparage the other side, etc. We put the agreement on the record in front of the judge. Then the client said he wanted to make a statement "for the record." He proceeded to say that he was not guilty of anything, the other side was, that they were unfair and coerced this settlement, and were generally disreputable individuals with the slipperyness of the most amoral of the Medici.
The judge told him he could not do that if he signed the agreement. He told the judge he had seen on TV that President Bush just signed a bill that said the US could not build permanent bases in Iraq, and then issued a signing statement that he could build permanent bases in Iraq. If the president could sign something and repudiate it at the same time almost 600 times in signing statements, then so could he.
The judge could not persuade him the president had the power to say what he was signing was not what he was going to do.