"TERMINATOR 4: RECOUNT DAY"

The best thing on the ESPN webpage, Gregg Easterbrook's Tuesday Morning Quarterback, returns with some amusing suggestions for future movies Arnold Schwarzenegger can do.

But it's *holy* fecal matter

US evangelist Leroy Jenkins is in trouble for handing out well water from his farm that has been condemned by health officials. The story on this is here.

A new meaning to the term "radiant beauty"

A 1918 newspaper ad that promotes Radium Face Cream, with "a definite amount of Actual Radium--nature's greatest aid to Beauty" can be found at the online Gallery of Art and Illustration from the Pages of American Newspapers.

Thanks to Exclamation Mark.

"When politicians speak of children, hide the spoons."

National Review is unimpressed with Arnold and still likes Bill Simon

Time for book lovers to cry

My favourite Portland bookstore is Powell's, but Jeremy's affectionate tribute to the recently closed Fritzler's bookstore makes me wish that I had known about that bookstore too.

Not that it would have helped much, as whenever I have gone on a daytrip to Portland, it's been with my grandmother and she likes to stay in downtown Portland where Powell's--a used bookstore the size of a large department store--is. No usedbooks megastore where I live, unfortunately. If I ever hit the lottery, maybe I should open one.

Orgasm watch

"....In any event, it is my strong belief that the moment when Western Civilization became obsessed with the female orgasm coincided exactly with its final collapse...."

Kevin Michael Grace's post commenting on a response to his piece on The Vagina Monologues is very interesting reading.

Penthouse asks for bankruptcy protection

News item: Penthouse Publisher Files for Bankruptcy.

What, you can't make money on sex? What gives?

It's almost as odd as Hustler for the Lord, that quickie Christian publishing house's book celebrating Hustler publisher Larry Flynt's alleged conversion to Christianity in the 1970s.

Memo to fellow Report-sters: one slightly used magazine publishing empire, for sale, cheap! :). I can just imagine..."Dear editor, I am a student at a small Midwestern college. I never believed any of the letters that I read in this magazine until I had a recent experience of my own. One day the pretty girl who lives next door to me accidentally left her copy of The Conservative Mind in the common room of our dorm...."

Beware a "cult of personality"

I like how Rush explains that Arnold isn't another Reagan.

I would like to add however that some strong California conservatives thought that Reagan was a liberal in conservative's clothing. Kent Steffgen's book Here's the Rest of Him develops this thesis interestingly.

I'd much have another Reagan than a Governator, though. To paraphrase Jack Warner: "No, no, Ronald Reagan for governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger for best friend!"

Former Report-nik acquires power to decide who lives and who dies

My former colleague Jeremy Lott has some neat news about his new editing job. Check it out!

Congrats...

Good ol' free enterprise

Want Arnold for governator, er governor, bumper stickers? This site has 18 non-official ones.

It only took four days after his announcement. Are they slow or what?

I liked this bumper sticker, which opens for $5 on eBay.

Meanwhile, der Arnold has one webpage for his campaign. No position papers, but you can donate money.

I wonder if Arnold has slipped up. Does he plan to make no bumper stickers or other campaign stuff that he could sell around the world? Well, perhaps if he had ordered these to be produced that would have meant that a leak would have spoiled his surprise announcement on the Tonight Show.

"Hasta la vista, Grayby"

Mark Steyn's take on der Arnold's prospects:The Gubernator?

This might be Arnold's best chance to be elected governor, writes Steyn.

That will buy a lot of Humvees

Columnist's Daniel Weintraub's California Insider is following everything about the California gubernatorial election, including der Arnold's tax returns from 2001 and 2002. In 2002, he earned $26 million US!

Can you guess which one of these I own?

Yes, I own one of these Incredibly Strange Religious Records, which I bought on cassette? The page is fun to read at any rate, if you don't care to hazard a guess....

Do that to us one more time

Britney Spears is being considered for her own talk show, according to this weblogger, who is, shall we say, kind of sceptical.

When do I get my own talk show?

"I will throw you like the hammer throw!"

Kathy Shaidle has come up with a neat idea as she compiles the best quotes from the SCTV TV show. Are your favourite SCTV quotes or moments there yet?

Watch out, it's raining TVs!

Rachel Marsden watch

If you have come here looking for the latest information on Republican Babe Rachel Marsden, you may be interested in this National Post article, which shows that she likes to fudge and mislead in regards to her past.

Alas, I am not a hottie, so I must get by with the truth.

Zzzzzz....

My condolences to anyone who has to get up this early to go to work...as I just did. Anyways, I hope to have more posting and less kvetching soon.

What you running for, Willis?

Gary Coleman is running for goveror of California too, as a protest against what he says is the silliness of the recall process.

California governors race will end in tie--one vote each--after everybody in state runs

In a quick moving day for politics, Arnold Schwarzenegger announces that he will run for governor of California, as will Arianna Huffington. Jerry Springer, meanwhile, has withdrawn for his Senate bid and plans to concentrate on his TV show.

Buns ahoy!

By the way the aforementioned weblog below has weekly photo caption contests. See how you do!