Let the black Islamophic  humor begin: A female suicide bomber on a mission to kill a Sri Lankan Cabinet minister is seen patiently answering questions in a bustling government office before calmly standing up and detonating the bomb hidden in her bra. Correction: Sri Lanka

Fee Fi Foer offers a special retraction on Beauchamp, due to TNR’s inability to meet in this case its famously stringent standards of proof regarding the material it chooses to publish. Confederate Yankee likens it to a particular strategy in poker.  How they managed to keep a straight face that long is anybody’s guess.  While that microwaves, since ridicule is a dish best served hot, you may wish to visit the Pub, where there is LOLdeBATS

As the case of controversy over the truthiness of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist” was the catalyst for writing “The Big Picture(s),” I note that TNR now states that it can no longer stand by the stories spun by Pvt. Scott Beauchamp. (h/t HotAir) Of course, TNR editor Franklin Foer takes ten 14 pages to make that announcement, including various complaints about conservatives and the Army, while leaving out a few

Chavez Threatens. You want something with specifics?

Speed camera Gatsos destruction in the UK. h/t Reynolds

Nob Hill.  I don’t suppose that’s been observed, yet. Why the heck aren’t Liz Stephans (and that guy she vlogs with) out there giving us the . . . skinny?  Slackers.

Investigators say they have obtained a tissue sample from a woman’s miscarriage and will have it tested for presence of an abortion drug that her boyfriend allegedly slipped her in an attempt to terminate her pregnancy.Businessman Manishkuma Patel was charged yesterday with attempted homicide of an unborn child. His lawyer says he was to be released today on $750,000 cash bond raised with the help of his friends. But the

From Jules Crittenden: Chavez enemies are “mental retards.” UPDATE: Perhaps that’s because they haven’t had a proper education in Chavismo yet, which is an already iterated collective ideology growing spontaneously out of the aspirations of the Venezuelan masses.

 Anne Elk:  Netherlands authorities are commissioning a study to determine why Moroccan men target gays in Amsterdam, considered one of Europe’s most gay friendly cities.Amsterdam has experienced a growing number of attacks on gays and lesbians, Der Spiegel reported Friday. In 2006, the Dutch metropolis registered 32 hate crimes directed at gays, but during the first half of 2007, 26 had already been counted, the newspaper said. Mayor Job Cohen

jumps successfully to the other side. Isn’t all of life kind of like a Snake River Canyon?  In a nefarious episode, my brother Tim and I sneaked into the attic when Mom and Dad weren’t around, to get a sneak peek at what Christmas was like to bring.  One of the most exciting discoveries was one of these.  As fortune would have it, the open hatch to the attic was the perfect place to test