Internal Monologue

Image from engadget . Nintendo has a unique controller called the Wii, but this game has an even more unconventional interface: your wee wee. Too bad the Belgian police banned it : As reported by Engadget , Place to Pee, a driving game controlled via urination, has been given the chop by police in Gent. The game was on display at the GamePower Expo, but cops there ultimately found it indecent.

It will be interesting to see what kind of impact Oprah has on Obama's campaign . She's got an enormous media empire and a huge audience, but will that translate into votes in a primary election?

This front page story on Kos has some pictures and previews of electric vehicles on the near horizon.

...and is now backpedaling furiously : "I had traditionally been a Democrat," Giuliani told me in a recent interview in Las Vegas. "It was almost like a reflex mode. I actually remember saying to myself, 'If I was a person really deciding who should be president right now, I'd probably vote for Nixon, because I think the country would be safer with Nixon.'" What does it say about today's Republican party that Giuliani has to defend a vote against the disgraced Richard Nixon? The guy was a crook. Of course, this is the same Republican party that demands fealty to Bush, the most reviled president since...Richard Nixon. OK, maybe it makes sense. I think what Republican primary voters want to hear is that you're such a partisan hack that you'll say anything, repudiate any position, dissociate yourself from any vote, sell out any principle, in order toe the party line and pay homage to the dear leader. Republicans eat that stuff up. Far from bei

Well, we don't really know. But we do know what the most viewed pages on Conservapedia are (as of this posting): Main Page ‎ [1,935,866] Homosexuality ‎ [1,625,236] Homosexuality and Hepatitis ‎ [518,141] Homosexuality and Parasites ‎ [434,518] Homosexuality and Promiscuity ‎ [422,222] Gay Bowel Syndrome ‎ [402,128] Homosexual Couples ‎ [374,132] Homosexuality and Gonorrhea ‎ [332,115] Homosexuality and Anal Cancer ‎ [294,478] Homosexuality and Mental Health ‎ [293,805] (via The Agonist via Crooks and Liars ) When I read this list aloud to my wife, she innocently asked, "Is Conservapedia a gay site?" I'm sad to see that the famous Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus page didn't make the list. Oh, they removed it.

A good one on a favorite subject of mine (HT: Bill in Minneapolis via email).

Digby is pointing out an interesting wrinkle in the abortion debate: If the anti-choicers really believe that abortion is killing a human being, shouldn't women who get them and the doctors who perform them be prosecuted for murder? Do anti-choicers want this? Apparently not: MATTHEWS: I have always wondered something about the pro-life movement. If—if you believe that killing—well, killing a fetus or killing an unborn child is—is murder, why don‘t you bring murder charge or seek a murder penalty against a woman who has an abortion? Why do you let her off, if you really believe it‘s murder? O‘STEEN: We have never sought criminal penalties against a woman. MATTHEWS: Why not? O‘STEEN: There haven‘t been criminal penalties against a woman. MATTHEWS: Well, why not? O‘STEEN: Well, you don‘t know the circumstances and how she‘s been forced into this. And that‘s... MATTHEWS: Forced into it? (CROSSTALK) O‘STEEN: ... to be effective. We‘re out—we‘re not out—we‘re out to tr