SO, WHAT ARE THE PRESIDENT AND SKIP GATES DRINKING TODAY?

We've known the answer for a couple of days, but Lucianne Goldberg's site offers an alternate theory today:



Yeah, she went there.

I'm sure Justin Barrett thinks that's a real knee-slapper.

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And speaking of Justin Barrett: he's been suspended by the Boston Police Department and the Massachusetts National Guard for writing an e-mail (full text here) that repeatedly refers to Henry Louis Gates as a "jungle monkey" (in one case as a "banana-eating jungle monkey").

Who do you think will be the first right-winger to argue that we shouldn't consider it an insult to call Gates a "jungle monkey" because we liberals believe in evolution?