Many of my Aruban leads drying up—after all, there are only so many shallow marshes and muddy gullies on an Island the size of your average Super Target—I spent the morning recording international news coverage of Fatah protests in the Palestinian territories, moving frame by frame through edited video (my requests to CNN, SKY, FOXNews, and Al-Jazeera for access to their raw footage has thus far gone unanswered) looking for

From CNN: Sen. John Kerry has decided to support a filibuster to block the nomination of Judge Samuel Alito to the Supreme Court, CNN’s Congressional Correspondent Ed Henry reported Thursday. Kerry, in Davos, Switzerland, to attend the World Economic Forum, was marshaling support in phone calls during the day, Henry said. He announced his decision Wednesday to a group of Democratic senators, urging they join him, Henry said. Kerry also

Billy Joel: “A bottle of white, a bottle of red… Perhaps a bottle of Rosé instead?  We’ll get a table near the street, in our old familiar place—you and I, face to face –” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “– Uh huh.  Funny, but I don’t recall you holding ‘face to face’ in such tender regard during those sequin-splashed ‘blow and go’ swinger parties you used to drag me to in

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From Shrinkwrapped: […]The problem for Liberalism is that by living as if their philosophy was not only better, but was true, we have effectively made international relations much more risky and made international disaster much more likely. […] We cannot protect the people of Darfur.  We must fight the members of one of our two political parties, along with a well funded media, academic, and legal elite, in order to

From CNN: The Islamic fundamentalist group Hamas, which has said it favors the destruction of Israel, won an apparent victory in Palestinian legislative elections, officials said Thursday, reshaping the political landscape of the Middle East. “We have lost the elections; Hamas has won,” said Saeb Erakat, a Palestinian lawmaker with the ruling Fatah Party. He said Fatah, which has held power since the creation of the Palestinian Authority, will now

Wanna control pork spending?  France, of all places, has the solution. Although thanks to the slippery nature of interpreting cross-cultural idiom, they seem to have the premise a might confused… **** (h/t )

For those of you interested in the ongoing competition for House leader, Rich Lowry notes this interesing observation from FOXNews’ Major Garrett (who, incidentally, was one of the few FOX Reporters whose work on covering Katrina was rigorous and, in the traditional sense, “journalistic”): It didn’t start this way, but the race to replace DeLay has become a barometer of Republican confidence in an election year. Those who believe the

me: “Dude. It’s 2:25 in the afternoon!  The hell…?” alarm clock: “Sorry.  But I’ve decided I’m no longer comfortable being your bitch.”

Dragged to a hip hop club by a few of my gal pals, I overreached on what turned out to be a bit of dated slang and called one of the women grinding up against me “phat.” Which, it turns out, is not a compliment—particularly when said sister is four biscuits shy of a Hyundai, and when the typical urban bass riff is simply too overpowering to allow for any