Courtesy of Rick, here’s a “news bulletin” from Uruknet alleging “In the new Iraq, US soldiers rape schoolgirls in the daylight”:

Sure, our enemies are laughing at us—but hell, at least we had the moral highground. Until that asshole Bush came along and muddied the waters with all his neocon warmongering.  Now, not only will Iran get nukes (and likely use them), but we don’t even get to claim we stood astride history yelling “peace, my Muslim brothers” right up until the moment the immense flash and the glorious, purifying fire

From the Washington Post:

We’re off here in a bit to the birthday party for our friends’ little girl, who turns 2-years-old today.  Unfortunately, we’re in a bit of a rush, given that we’re going to have to pick up a new present and wrap it in the car on the way. Seems the “Tickle Me Elmo” doll I bought off of eBay was actually something called a “Tickle My Elmo”—which essentially is a

Will the forced resignation of Lawrence Summers initiate a widepread rebellion in favor of academic freedom among today’s professoriat?  Probably not, I don’t think:  most of the academics I know, while fine people, are happy with the safety (and, with tenure, the security) that comes from not rocking the political/administrative boat—which, sadly, is why we see a kind of ideological homogeneity in many departments, particularly in the humanities. So when

—You may as well stop right there.  Because here’s the thing:  though Dasypus novemcinctus has few natural enemies—hunters, dogs, coyotes, automobiles—it turns out they’re not too fond of foul-mouthed, mendacious “progressive” trolls, either, and the nest of those creatures who’ve taken up residence here of late has the little guy resigned to shelving his disco shoes and wide-collared satin shirts until such time as that particular infestation is (to borrow

Evidently not, if you can believe this piece from The New Editor. I could be wrong, but I suspect that one of the keys to breaking up the overwhelming African-American / Democratic voting bloc will be the voucher and charter school issues, which will force the Democrats to choose between the teachers’ union and an increasing number of blacks (among others) who are looking for an alternative to a public

Offered as definitive proof we are living in the ideological Bizzaro world of 1992, here’s one-time Marxist Christopher Hitchens on Francis Fukuyama:

The Disgruntled Chemist sends along a 4 part post documenting the proceedings from a meeting of the College Republicans at the University of California, Irvine: It was a panel discussion; the main issue was whether or not Muslims in the United States are doing enough to distance themselves from terrorists and to support the War on Terror. As you’ll see, the conversation soon diverged from that. The narration / recounting

From “The Straight Dope (classics)”, a critical look at cannibalism (which just so happens to intersect with the idea of sociopolitical motivations for embroidered meme propagation: