…critical thinking is elevating fear of giving offense over willingness to speak frankly about the nature of the enemy you face. Oh. And Stiller is Meara. But then, you already knew that. (h/t CJ Burch; via LGF)

Not so much an “open” thread as it a thread dedicated to taking pot shots at the Kid Rocks while simultaneously extolling the virtue of having a team in a market where you can spend $50 million just for the rights to speak to a Japanese star — then spend an additional $55 million to sign him. So that he can win 15 games. And post an ERA around 4.

Chuck Norris to star in sequel.

Roy at Alicublog has this to say about PW: As Jeff Goldstein is apparently deep into one of those frequent cataleptic trances from which he only emerges to cadge spare change, the Protein Wisdom second stringers try their hand at semioticking. Dan Collins: Frank Rich: Suicide Is Not Painless Well, at least the Times are speaking to something they know. Of course, such a thing could never have happened [Vince

I hope this Catherine Gund doesn’t have custody: Sadie has a daddy and two mommies – and her adoptive mother is suing the child’s biological parents because the unusual family unit was anonymously featured last year in The New York Times Magazine. Filmmaker Catherine Gund says in court papers that her former lover, poet Melanie Hope, and the gay man who fathered Gund and Hope’s daughter violated a 1996 agreement

Whether it’s the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, deadly news out of Pakistan and Myanmar or Friday’s stock market tumble, moviegoers seem disinterested in more bad news at theaters with films about child-kidnapping, torture, widowhood and heroin addiction. (h/t Hot Air) Bernie Sanders’s My Space page. HoDe and Willie Nelson are among his friends. Max McGee falls down sober, dies. Max McGee, the free-spirited Green Bay Packers receiver who became

ABC, simple as Do Re Mi: While she is winning wide support in nationwide samples among Democrats in the race for their party’s presidential nomination, half of likely voters nationwide said they would never vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, a new Zogby Interactive poll shows. Sure, Zogby polls are always a bit suspect.  But that result has been consistent all year long, and not just from Zogby.   She has the highest

Roger Simon on the “looming” Hollywood writers strike: But that doesn’t stop me from observing the situation, which seems more dire than I can remember, even than those several times we writers actually went out on strike and paraded around the studios with picket signs, producer friends allegedly sending their assistants out to ply us with copious lattes (that never happened to me). This time there is a genuine atmosphere

Last night before the big screen behind the Eiffel Tower, tens of thousands of English rugby fans died a slow, drunken death as France South Africa beat England 15 to 6 Read the rest. In defense of Dr. Watson: There is a deeper issue here. Society should not base its morality on a denial of facts. Word. Belated congratulations to Andrew & partner. The insane vulgarity of wretched humanity: The

Our friend Chuck blows up at another blogger, threatens to take out a hit. Probably TMI, but . . . Free Speech has the details, in case you’re interested in the peculiar pathology. (h/t Darleen) Others blogging: BitsBlog, Cold Fury