Pajamas Media is having a contest/survey to see which is a better term for folks who align themselves with neither the Republicans or the Democrats. Currently the group is called x21 which is not very catchy and sounds more like a vitamin the Cylons would have to take to keep their spine nice and red-glowy. So one can easily see they need a new name. The submitted ones in the contest are:

Autonocrats
Centrocrats
Conglomerates
Positionistas
Flexocrats
Freerangers
Hybrids
Mosaics
PHI (Politically Hybrid Individuals)
Pragmatics
Purples
Patriocrats
Mugwumps

Which mostly sound like they are Democrat outcasts, what with all the ‘crats and general envirowienie-ness . I’m not entirely sure this is the case. However, If I were interested in winning the Pajamas Media logo-emblazoned pajamas I’d have entered the following:

• Fencitarians – Does barbed wire make a comfy seat?
• Middlerodans – That’s where most people that get run over, get run over.
• The For-gainst – We like it, we hate, we hike it ,we late it!
• Vaguens – Our postion is mpflflmmfmthph, did you get that?
• Windblosers (long o) – We use meteor-o-logic to figure out what to do.

That’s the best I could come up with. What would you call them?

Last night, my wife and I went on a shopping adventure in the Galleria-Post Oak area of the city, looking for Jean Michel-Jarre and Michael Oldfield CDs to replace the ones I’ve allowed to get scratched well before I got my lifetime’s listening enjoyment out of them (or get them ripped into MP3 format).
Best Buy had “Tubular Bells” and no Jarre.
Barnes and Nobles had “Magnetic Fields” and the compilations, but no Oldfield.
So I do my usual and pop into Amazon this morning, and sure enough, everything is there. From one end of the discography to well after each jumped the shark.

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I’m tired of you stupid neocons always flying off the handle just because somebody cracks a joke about killing President Bush. Killing President Bush is a perfectly acceptable premise for a joke, a movie, or a party platform.
We at IMAO recognize the genius comic abilities of The Democratic Left. Recently, John F. Kerry joked about killing Presdient Bush. I’m not sure if he was for the killing before he was against it, but I’m sure he’ll change his mind eventually.
Since many of you don’t have time to appreciate the Left’s humor, probably because you’re huddled in a closet afraid someone will expose you as homosexual, I thought I’d share some high quality humor with you. Besides, you can’t spend your time listening to nothing but right wing humor.

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Here’s Jonah Goldberg’s take on the politics of the Battlestar Gallatica season premiere (he needs lots of hits so he can start a BSG blog at NRO which I can then take over when I steal his job). SarahK will have her own thoughts on the subject when the next IMAO Podcast comes out later today.
BTW, for those of you in IMSO (the secret wing of IMAO), you should have gotten an important e-mail from me today.

For the caption contest from Friday, the winning entry is…

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With terrorism still on the loose and North Korea setting off nukes (or, at least, trying to), the Democrats have figured this is the time to go to the right of the Bush administration and show the American public that they are the only ones with the ability to intimidate America’s enemies. Just look at this campaign e-mail I got from the DNC:
THE ONLY THING AMERICA’S ENEMIES FEAR ARE THE DEMOCRATS!
While terrorists, Iran, and North Korea are walking all over President Bush and the Republicans, the Democrats have what it takes to strike fear in the hearts of those who would do us harm. Just listen to soon to be Senator from Connecticut Ned Lamont:

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Sure, Saddam got tossed out of the courtroom once again, making the arrest of the genocidal madman asp aopposed to shooting him and filling in his spider-hole seem like a huge mistake in retrospect. But of all the outbursts, a dollop of wisdom from one of his co-defendants:

A third defendant, Ali Hassan al-Majid, declared: “I want to see the sentence passed now. I wish to be executed and finish with this court.”

No, really, why not go Caecescu on his ass? Or let him self-medicate like Milosevic did?
Or is someone filming a reality show starring these guys for Al-Jazeerah or something?

“It’s a waste of energy away from things that do matter which is poverty, death, disease, the planet itself and fixing things in our own homes rather than fighting wars with others.”
Is this:
A) A sane Imam exhorting his Muslim brethren to lay down their arms and follow a more civilized path.
or
B) Oliver Stone Bush-Bashing.
Click here for answer.

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If North Korea’s bomb really was a dud, should we still enact sanctions against them or should we just point and laugh at them and call them names?
I vote the latter because that sounds like more fun. What do you think?