From the Times Online (UK): ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI, the most feared commander in the Iraqi insurgency, may have been forced to surrender his leadership by rival groups, angered by his bloody tactics and the interference of foreign fighters in the Iraqi conflict. According to Huthayfah Azzam, the son of Abdullah Azzam, al-Zarqawi’s former mentor, the notorious commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq was stripped of his political duties at a meeting

Q: “How many WHITE people does it take to change a lightbulb?” A: “None.  Because they make the BLACK MAN do all their manual labor for them, while they hold all the WHITE COLLAR jobs!  And answer me this:  why are all the GOOD jobs called ‘WHITE’ collar jobs, anyway? “Stumped you, didn’t I?  You RACIST CRACKERS!”*

To Jon Lane, for the Mister Roberts DVD!  I’m a huge fan of both William Powell (of Thin Man fame) and James Cagney—and Henry Fonda and Jack Lemon are no slouches, either.  Can’t wait to watch this one. Which reminds me:  I’ve been watching a lot of Harold Lloyd stuff recently—including a 1928 film (Speedy) that featured Babe Ruth as a guest star (playing himself).  For those of you unfamiliar

Fear the Rockies, bitches!  Fear them like you would a federal prosecutor set to grill you about the unnaturally rapid growth of your head, neck, buttocks, and arms! And yeah, I’m looking at you, Barry. **** update:  Rockies win 3-2 in 11 innings.  At Coors.  The bullpen?  4 innings, 1 unearned run.  FEAR THEM!  FOR THEY SHALL SHOCK THE WORLD!

Q: Why did Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) cross the road? A: Clearly you have your story all wrong, Mr. Racist Interlocutor.  As the facts will show, it was the ROAD who crossed CYNTHIA.  Because it hates Blacks.  And women.  And liberal Democrats.  And probably puppies, too.* Though it loves Jews.  Stupid Jew-loving racist road.  How we loathe you. **** (h/t George Gaskell)

The Late Night TV Page lists this Thursday’s guest on “The Colbert Report” as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Which, cool for Daily Kos, I guess, but super bad for the universe.  After all, so many levels of irony and ideological blindness colliding at once are sure to rip a hole in the space-time continuum big enough to suck us all back to 1969, where we’d be forced to listen to Joan

From SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a military jail for more than three years as an “enemy combatant.” The Court, however, declined to dismiss the case as moot, as the Bush Administration had urged. Only three Justices voted to hear the case, according to the order and accompanying opinions. The case was Padilla v.

Along with the WSJ’s John Fund, Yale alum and Towhall.com writer Clint W. Taylor, proprietor of the Nail Yale blog, has been doing yeoman’s work documenting the story of Yale Talib Sayed Rahmatullah Hashemi, the former Taliban spokesman and “diplomat” recruited by Yale—presumably to check off “misogynists who will drop a wall on queers, given the chance (Allah be pleased)” on their “diversity” sheet.  This morning, Clint emails to highlight

McKinney:  “Bring me the linguini.  With the clam sauce.” Josh the waiter:  “White?” McKinney:  “Excuse me?  What exactly does RACE have to do with my spaghetti topping? “Honkey bitch.”

Commenter Terry Hastings emails me this WaPo piece by Geoffrey Lambert, a retired major general who commanded the Army Special Forces Command (Airborne) from 2001 to 2003, who under the headline “Don’t Politicize Our Soldiers,” does just that: I was a soldier in 1969, and I witnessed misguided students and adults attacking individual soldiers because of their disgust with national policy. In the ‘60s the purveyors of hate on the