Oops, I Did It Again
A savagely funny takedown of Reynolds, Clifford May, Mark Levin, and Andrew Sullivan.
(Link swiped from Jesse Walker/Reason.)
OK, OK, Just One More
The Pompous Ass Quote of the Day:
IS THE SENATE UNDERMINING IRAQI RECONSTRUCTION? Sure looks like it.
If things go badly as a result, I promise to publish the pictures, names — and home phone numbers, if I can get ‘em — of the Senators voting for this bill.
I’ll also publish weblinks so that people can give [...]
Speaking of Glenn Reynolds…
There’s been much caterwauling about the negative coverage of “postwar” Iraq, including repeated charges that the media never show the progress being made.
Here’s your progress:
Once the Iraqis at the Baghdad Fire Department’s largest station learn English, they’ll be able to read the English-language “Baghdad Fire Department” T-shirts we’ve decked their employees in. The BFD [...]
He’s a Law Professor, You Know
Much praise to blogger Jim Henley for handing Glenn Reynolds his head on a toothpick. Check out this Henley response to Reynolds’ whimpering about the Valerie Plame/CIA scandal:
Leave Me My Illusions! – Until recently I could believe that ressentiment was a malady unique to the Left. Damn the Bush Administration for stealing that, too. Glenn [...]
30,000 WMDs Found
Sure, terrorists can cause trouble, Mideast dictators could threaten their neighbors with nukes, if they had ‘em. Matt Bivens, writing in the Moscow Times reminds us, though, about the threat that could destroy civilization:
“Look, if we’re such great friends, why do we still have around 30,000 nuclear weapons — including thousands on hair-trigger launch alert? [...]
Enough with the Anti-Anti-Semitism Already
Ran HaCohen is back and as BS-averse as ever. Check out “Abusing Anti-Semitism”. A sample:
Nowadays, an orthodox Jew can run for the most powerful office on earth, the president of the United States (I personally hope he doesn’t win). A Jew can be the mayor of Amsterdam in “anti-semitic” Holland, a minister in “anti-semitic” Britain, [...]
“Maggie’s Mauling for Blair”
Great title from the Sunday Mirror. Iraq war quote of the day, from Lady Thatcher:
Britain should never have been involved and it will be very difficult to get our troops out in anything like the near future.
“Story of Isaac”
As a supplement to today’s article, “Toward a Meaningful Yom Kippur,” I’ll include these lines from Leonard Cohen:
You who build these altars now
to sacrifice these children,
you must not do it anymore.
A scheme is not a vision
and you never have been tempted
by a demon or a god.
You who stand above them now,
your hatchets blunt and bloody,
you [...]
If Tom Ridge Has Any Extra Duct Tape…
He might consider putting some over Paul Wolfowitz’s mouth. Another brilliant gem from the undersecretary:
Pressed by House Democrats about whether the administration planned to withdraw U.S. troops right before the 2004 presidential election, Wolfowitz assured them that no decisions were being made on political grounds.
“These are national security decisions; they have to be made [...]
Democratic War
Was looking for a picture and stumbled across this gem:
Clark for President!
Ever Heard of Deir Yassin?
It was the site of a 1948 atrocity. From Ha’aretz:
The attack on April 9, 1948, killed anywhere
from 108 to 254 [Arab] villagers – the number is still
debated – and accelerated Israeli expropriation
of land.
One man’s terrorist and all that…
