With apologies to our foreign readers, who don't give a shit about the Fourth of July.... Holy shit! If this doesn't make you love America, you're just a red-blooded commie what has no business enjoying today's holiday. A raging hard-on of a hat tip to Kissing Suzy Kolber....

When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separati...

You know how I know this is going to be the best 4th ever? Because with this as the lead-in, how can it not be? Happy 4th y'all!...

Over in the UK, a British student was taking something called the GCSE English exam, when he was faced with this question: "Describe the room you're sitting in." The student's eloquent response? "Fuck off." A senior examiner was grading the paper and gave the student two points out of a possible twenty-seven, saying: "It would be wicked to give it zero, because it does show some very basic skills w...

The DOJ is digging its nose into the Google/Yahoo deal to make sure there's nothing sketchy going on there. (Washington Post) Whoops -- seems that the Supremes made a teensy factual error in their "no death penalty for kiddy rape" decision. (NY Times) W is all sorts of blinky. (Legal Antics) Richard Posner decided to use one of his opinions to defend the good name of ostriches everywhere. (Supreme...