In light of fast approaching 400 posts on ProseBeforeHos, I’ve decided to compile a ‘best of’. Maybe you’ve missed these or if you’ve seen them, they’re worth a second viewing:

Top 10 PBH Posts

1. The Domino Effect by Jesse. If this is an original piece, this is one of the funnier observations on modern melodramatic romance to be written.

2. A Commentary on Transitional Iraq by International Relations. A piece done by me (Alec), so I guess this stinks of self-selection. However, I wrote this in a painstaking fashion and is one of the more well-crafted of my ideas regarding our involvement in Iraq.

Blaine Harden at the WP writes an excellent expose on the socio-economic realities facing the post-Katrina rebuilding of New Orleans.

“I am not a conspiracy person,” said William Quigley, a professor at Loyola University Law School in New Orleans and director of its Gillis Long Poverty Law Center, “but it is pretty hard to argue with the facts on the ground. If you are black in the Lower Ninth and you don’t have electricity, water or a FEMA trailer and nobody is giving you a timeline when you will, that is a hell of a lot of conspiracy dots to connect.”

From a WP Chat:

Dupont Circle, Washington, D.C.: Just a quick note to the O’s fans coming down for the games this weekend — at the D.C. Armory on Saturday and Sunday they are having a giant jeans-shorts expo. You might want to skip the game and stock up on these Baltimore summer fashion staples, for the Nats are going to give your team a terrific drubbing!!

BBCNews has an excellent report on what states are under the microscope for the 2006 midterm election. The one saving grace for the Republicans, associated with an unpopular war and an even more unpopular President, is that they get to run against Democrats, who are perennial experts at proving their incompetence at running campaign.

The UN has released a list of the top 10 most underreported stories concerning the world. In the ‘obvious’ section: “Every year, the U.N.’s Department of Public Information (DPI) unveils its list of the world’s 10 most under-reported stories, implying that politics, murder and sex scandals still take precedence over poverty, peace-building or economic developments.”

That’s why we have to crush mankind!

having just heard that tom petty cancelled tickets to scalpers and sold them at a reasonable price to real fans, i’m peeved that radiohead is doing nothing about rampant scalping of tickets to their us tour. check it out; tickets inflated 600%…

Give it a try.

Because YouTube is being flakey (nothing new), I present to you a video of my new hamster (note the flailing limbs):

Do you like Sex and the City? Do you enjoy mundane conversation? Are you of average appearance and thought? Then this essay is for you:

“How do women’s minds work?”

Try this question on any man: All you’ll get for an answer is a
shrugging of shoulders along with a puzzled facial expression. The one
thing neither rocket scientists nor astrophysicists will ever be able
to comprehend is how women think and feel. Bill Watterson’s eternal
six-year old Calvin (from “Calvin & Hobbes”), no smart scholar, but
the epitome of the self-assured yet forever puzzled boy, summarizes
his incomprehension of the opposite gender: “What is it like to be a
girl? Is it like being a bug? I imagine bugs and girls have a dim
perception that nature has played a cruel trick on them, but they lack
the intelligence to really comprehend the magnitude of it!”

I randomly received this message on MySpace:

You know when the shits hit the fan? When Joe Scarborough, someone who attempts to be more smeary and conservative then his Fox News FUHRERS, denounces the policies of the NSA and George Bush amid the recent NSA-spy-on-every-American scandal. It also doesn’t help if you are easy prey, with new polls showing less than 30% approval ratings and thousands have died in Baghdad alone in the pastmonth.

In similar affairs, Salon has an expose on ‘The Rise of Christian Nationalism’. For further evidence, John McCain, once a staunch opponent of the proposed federal ban on gay marriage, has been moving further to the right to pander to the ultra-right that did not back his 2000 nomination.

In his MSNBC TV program in May 2005, Scarborough criticized Arnold Schwarzenegger by repeating an allegation in a British newspaper that the California governor had advocated blowing up the moon as a way of controlling women’s menstrual cycles.

Also: Moon Money

Royce: That’s the miracle of the franchise. You get all the equipment and know-how you need, plus a familiar brand-name people trust. You’ll be on a rocket-ride to the moon! And while you’re there, would you pick up some of that nice, green moon money for me — Royce McCutcheon!

Homer: No deal, McCutcheon, that moon money is mine!