Juan Cole: I don’t try to start an internet campaign very often, because the blogosphere has its own priorities and logic that are democratic and should not be forced. But here is a plea for everyone in the blogging world to help force congress to save our diplomats. Bush is trying to Shanghai several hundred foreign service officers and force them to go to Iraq. They are protesting. Now is

Has further thoughts on marriage (of men and women), at Eternity Road.

I know these scabs, see (they won’t pick it, har har har). Jeff Goldstein and IowaHawk and Ace and Ott and Treacher and Frank J, for starters. These guys are great, they’re fast, they’re desperately broke, and they’re certain to remain true to your artistic vision. Whaddya say? I mean, how wrong could you go, right? Breaking: Boylan apologizes to Gleen(s) (h/t dittybopper) Hosejob. Protein Wisdom out of 2007 Weblog

Lawsuit May Bankrupt Phelps’ “Church” They seemed like such nice young fascists. Careful with the Chinesium Tablet reduces risk of racism “Humor is difficult in cross cultural situations,” he said. “It’s hard to know what’s going to be funny or when to use humor. Some people have suggested that you just avoid it all together; don’t be funny, don’t try to make jokes. We basically reject that and offer some

Washoe, a female chimpanzee believed to be the first non-human to acquire human language, has died of natural causes at the research institute where she was kept. Washoe, who first learned a bit of American Sign Language in a research project in Nevada, had been living on Central Washington University’s Ellensburg campus since 1980. She had a vocabulary of about 250 words. She died Tuesday night, according to Roger and

Mark Gisleson at Norwegianity: When someone exposes you as a racist hater, the obvious response is to call the blogger who exposed you a racist. Obvious, that is, if you’re a demagogic creep trying to perpetuate racist/homophobic bullshit. More demagoguery on display: Dennis Perrin, who posted an irresponsible, libelous accusation at Huffington Post that an LGF reader threatened to “track down his IP address and kill him,” has posted a

Whether Dr. Helen intentionally unlocked this Pandora’s Box for Halloween is an open question, but she wonders, “Should Men Get Married?”  So far, it appears that the answer is, “No.  Only women should get married.” Here’s your chance, both men and women, to vent about your most disastrous “love” relationships.

I know, I know. I make too big a deal about Greenwald(s), and I like these kerfuffles, and they’re all “inside baseball.” Still, my hypocrisy doesn’t, I think, bar me from pointing out the strange paucity of linking sites to this important story, compared to this, per Memeorandum. Outside the Wire with more not news: Beauchamp’s unit in a firefight (h/t Reynolds) Zeitgeist Alert: Toddler Dies in Hot Car While Mom

Details at David Thompson’s. Also with Aldo at the Pub. Maha doesn’t understand how this is the inevitable outcome of identity politics. It doesn’t make any sense, you see. Also, as you can see from the comments, I’m gay. Well, not GAY gay, but gay. It could be my face, but then it wouldn’t be funny, because anyone who believes as I do is obviously racist, whereas that charge levelled

Well, the Breitbart team haven’t posted in 5 days, so I suppose I must have creeped (crept?) that poor girl out. My apologies. Still, I don’t think I’m quite as creepy as either of these stories: Story 1 Story 2 Which one do you think is creepier, and why? Sad news. Somebody else just died. Humor from 1968: Crazy Women Drivers! Time to Euthanize the World?