I’m just spitballing here, but how close is Aruba to the Bermuda Triangle, anyway…?

…And Leaning to the Right wants to know why we’re not “all Egyptians now.” Well, I certainly can’t speak for everyone, but for my part it’s because of the rampant anti-semitism in Egypt, and the fact that they don’t have many Jewish citizens.  But the innocent victims of the terror attacks are in my thoughts and prayers, nevertheless. For detailed coverage of the attacks and their aftermath, keep visting here.

From the Times Online (UK): On his last visit to relatives in Pakistan this year, one of the London bombers, Shehzad Tanweer, boasted of wanting to die in a revenge attack over the way Muslims are treated. While his family in Leeds had no idea about his suicide mission, Tanweer confessed to his cousin his ambition to become a “holy warrior”. At his father’s home village 30 miles from Faisalabad,

1.  The latest news in Nadagate involves a State Department memo, Ari Fleischer, the Washington Post, the New York Times, a gaggle of (un)subpoenaed reporters and subpoenaed White House records, Bloomberg News, the scarlet letter “S”, Murray Waas—and now, former CIA analyst Mel Goodman, last seen, after signing this letter the left is using to trumpet the seriousness of Rove’s “crime” (I’m still not at all convinced any such crime—or

Yeah, I know.  But I can’t find him anywhere.  And even if I could (and I have a pretty good idea where he’s heading), it’s so hot in Denver right now that I’d probably just stick the little bastard in the freezer for a half hour, then—when his shell got good and cold—tuck him into my boxers with the hope that his icy smoothness might beat back the crotch rot

Robin Givhan: “Uh, no offense?  But this manger tableau bit has been done to death, don’t you think?  And the whole ‘wrapped in a natural cotton blanket’-thing?  Christ—could we be any more bourgeois…?”* **** (h/t Michelle Malkin; see also Wuzzadem, Captain Ed, The Anchoress, Betsy’s Page, QandO, and Mary Katharine Ham) **** update:  Robin her own self—looking for all the world like a half-eaten chocolate cupcake from a Mary Kay

I’m not a “Star Trek” fan—never watched the show, and only caught one or two of the movies (I suspect I’m not the only one still having frightfully vivid dreams of a glistening, bare-chested Ricardo Montalban)—but I know enough about the series and its cultural impact to appreciate this wonderfully wry and loving tribute to James “Scotty” Doohan, who passed away earlier this week. Rest in peace, James.  **** update: 

…From the Rocky Mountain New’s Mike Rosen: Investor’s Business Daily and the editorial page of The Wall Street Journal, two conservative venues, have been heralding the good news on the sharp decline in the federal deficit. Liberal newspapers have largely buried the story. Now, this isn’t an arcane, technical report of little public interest. These same newspapers were screaming bloody murder when the deficit was growing in recent years. If

Olivier Roy, professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences and the author of “Globalized Islam,” is one of a growing number of scholars advancing the thesis that the most dangerous breeding grounds for radicalized Islamism are Western—not, as conventional wisdom suggests, the madrassas of Pakistan or the streets of Gaza.  From “Why Do They Hate Us?  Not Because of Iraq,” the New York Times: […] if

Victor Davis Hanson’s tumbler of Clynelish single malt scotch (T) Richard the Lionheart / Terry Eastland (T) Mel Gibson / Jesus The Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits CD Season 3 of “Touched by an Angel” A grilled T-bone, two large spoonfuls of potato salad, and a six pack of Miller High Life The Ghost of Joseph McCarthy “The Drudge Report,” Wednesday, June 4, 2003 Wal-Mart **** related; see also.