Last night Ann Coulter spoke at Columbia University in New York.  She commented that she never expected to get as warm a welcome as another recent Columbia speaker, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.  Since I used to travel with Coulter to many of her campus speeches, I enjoy reading the local coverage following the event.  The Columbia Spectator gave a mostly fair portrayal of what Coulter said during her speech.  However, one line did jump out at me:

Coulter went on to criticize Barack Obama’s presidency in light of his recent completion of the first 100 days of his tenure.

President Obama gets an A just for participating!  I can only imagine that the reporter was educated in a modern public school that has been overrun with esteem-building activities.  It reminds me of the people that try out for American Idol, sing horribly and then question the judges by saying, “But I tried really hard and I really want this!”  Better luck next time “Cate Lynn” (or some variation of).  Try running on the Democratic ticket instead!

Here’s a confession: when I’m bored I peruse Craig’s List ads.  No, I’ve never (and will never) responded to one, but it’s entertaining nonetheless.  Since I’m home on a Saturday night (sore throat + it’s generally where I prefer to be), here are a few that made me laugh at humanity:

Headline: Have Fun and Make $$$$
Professional white male, tall, handsome, slightly overweight looking for a nice, white, female to spend two hours with tonight. We can go to dinner, have drinks, whatever, just want some good company. Will send a picture and am very generous.

Headline: For Asian girls who feel comfort in following
I write here on Craigslist because the girl I seek would probably be too shy and gentle to post a personal for herself. She would picture the burden of judging and picking through all the responses as improper and unenticing. Much better for the man to post and then she can reply if she feels drawn. I am a SWM in Northern Virginia. I am easy-going and gentle in many ways but prefer my relationships to be ones in which the man sets the course both will follow. I have always been respectful, and drawn, to the Asian culture, for the way they raise their young girls to be women. In America, we of course do not have this same culture of upbringing and so I ask that girls of Asian descent, and mindset, respond.

Headline: amateur male webcam stripper seeks female viewers
Want to watch an amateur male webcam stripper.  [was this supposed to be a question?]
Females only please.

Headline: let me fill you with bear juice
Top bear with big rubbable gut looking for chasers who want to take some bear juice…

Headline: A Good Man Is Hard to Find
[Hint — They’re not on Craig’s List]

I can’t imagine anyone still reads this blog, so instead I’ll just use it for venting purposes.  For instance, the following things are really getting on my nerves:

- Marley & Me movie previews.  The book is about a man (or family) and Marley the dog.  The movie is NOT about some love story between Jennifer Anisten’s character (in any movie) and Owen Wilson’s character (in any movie). 

- I’m sick of photo Christmas cards.  They require zero effort from the sender.  I don’t need a picture of your kids and the guilt that comes from eventually throwing it away.  (Dogs are ok.)

- People that blame you when they don’t buy a gift, i.e. “You didn’t tell me what you wanted for Christmas, so I didn’t get you anything.”  First of all, we’re all adults now.  If I “need” something, I usually buy it.  So, yeah, I’m not going to give you a list of things I’ve been meaning to buy (trouser socks, Ann Coulter’s new book, Aveeno lotion, etc.).  Second of all, I didn’t ask you for a list, but I still managed to buy thoughtful/awesome gifts.  Third of all, I don’t know your budget and don’t want to be presumptuous.  This year one friend bought me a Blu-Ray player (yay!) and another bought me a Simpsons calendar (yay!).  Both were appreciated.

Merry Christmas!

Or business as usual for the Democrats.

Pam Geller at Altas Shrugged has a great post on Florida Representative Robert Wexler’s residential fraud:

One of the most liberal members of Congress in Florida Robert Wexler (Obamapropagandist and notorious leftist)  is not a resident of his district. He has lived in Maryland since the late 90s.  He claims to live in a  house in Del Ray (owned by his mother-law)  in an active adult community  where no children are allowed, though he has three children). You can’t live there with kids, it’s against the rules of the community.

Another example of Democrat hubris  - I am above the law. It seems he has no connection to Florida at all. Clearly it’s a phantom residence, he ain’t sleeping on monster-in-law’s  couch with his three children.

Even though Wexler lives in Maryland, he doesn’t pay their state taxes.  Instead, he pays under Florida’s system, which has no state tax.  Be sure to read all of Geller’s post, as well as John Fund’s column on the issue.  Not only does Rep. Wexler think he’s above the law, but he viciously goes after those he disagrees with when they don’t release their home addresses.  Hans Bader of the Competitive Enterprise Institute writes:

For example, the conservative author and pundit Ann Coulter, who had been stalked for years by mentally-unbalanced admirers and detractors, followed advice to conceal her actual address by registering to vote at a house just up the street from her actual address, in the very same precinct.  She had actually spent nights at the address she listed, and received her mail at that house, based on advice from the FBI.  (Many states have laws that allow domestic violence victims to list a mailing address rather than their actual address for voting purposes, but such laws generally don’t extend to victims whose stalkers are strangers rather than intimates).

But when Wexler’s office found out about this, they screamed that this was voting fraud, and did everything they could to try to get the (liberal) local prosecutor to indict Coulter.  For more than two years, Wexler’s staff publicly and repeatedly branded Coulter a felon for not registering to vote under her actual daily abode.  They did so even though she did not violate the law, since the address she listed was in the same precinct as her actual daily abode.

Here’s my Human Events column for this week:

Reaction to last week’s historic Supreme Court decision overturning the D.C. ban on guns illustrates how far the American people have come in embracing and understanding  the Second Amendment.  Democrats have accepted that they have been on the losing side, so much so that their presidential nominee is whitewashing his radical anti-gun record. 

Click here to read the rest and make nice comments (please).

It was reported this morning that comedian George Carlin, 71, died after a history of heart trouble.  Carlin is one of the few on the Left that understood that political correctness is the enemy of comedy.  Last summer he was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno.  Also a guest that night was Ann Coulter.  When Carlin moved to the next seat so Coulter could sit down he said, “I never thought I’d be moving to Ann Coulter’s right.”

Click here to watch Carlin’s hilarious bit on death.  (Do I even have to say that the language is a little salty?)

UPDATE: Via RushLimbaugh.com, “Carlin Took on the Arrogant, Environmental Left”

From the people that brought you LOLCats comes GraphJam.

My contribution:

Some that made me laugh:

Via Jennsylvania:

So here it goes…

1.  Link back to the person who tagged you. [I wasn’t actually tagged though ]

2.  Post these rules on your blog. [Check]

3.  Share six unimportant things about yourself.

1. I watch The Simpsons or Family Guy every single day.
2. I’m afraid of frogs, crickets, grasshoppers, pretty much anything that can jump. (Actually, this is rather important.)
3. I don’t like most breakfast foods (pancakes, waffles, eggs, English muffins, French toast, sausage, syrup, etc.)
4. It doesn’t matter what else is on, what time of day it is or how far along it is in the movie, I will ALWAYS watch The Godfather 1 and 2 if it’s on television.  If there were a Godfather channel, all other channels would be obsolete in my house.  Unless they include part 3, in which case I’d give myself a 3 hour break to sleep.
5. I sing to my dog and replace words in the song with his name. 
6. I have over 4,500 Coke points!  That’s a lot.

4.  Tag six random people at the end of your entry.

Robert Bluey

Trevor Bothwell

Stacy McCain

Pam Geller

Michelle Oddis and Ericka Andersen

Rachel Marsden

Plus one more new one: Toni Coultress

I give you the best explanation of the Elliot Spitzer scandal… as given by an adorable 3-year-old dressed as a princess.

Enjoy the Peep Show!