One of the passengers “with an Arabic-sounding name” positively matched a name on the no fly list.  The plane should touch down around 2:45 EST.  Developing…*

Not in Montgomery County, MD, it isn’t.* **** (thanks to Stephen Meyer)

“We were just good friends.” “We were just good friends, and he seemed so lonely.” “So very very lonely.  And in need of some genuine human warmth…” “Besides, I’m a sick, twisted pedophile.” “Remember that scene in Home Alone where he screams after slapping on the after shave?—how absolutely adorable he looked?  That played a role.  Plus, I’m a sick, twisted pedophile.” “A very sick, very twisted pedophile.” “I really

Like Bronson in Death Wish—only instead of hunting down and killing urban scum, this fed-up civilian tracked and beat a single fat teen. Which, I guess it’s not really all that much like Death Wish after all, come to think of it.  (via Drudge)

Ooh!  Maybe if I dressed him up in a little tiny wet suit and scuba mask.  And flippers!  Now that would be so frickin’ adorable…!

1.  Sharp as a Marble turns one today!  Go. Click and give him the gift of traffic.  But cover yourself in chocolate icing first, if you can manage it. 2.  Tim Worstall alerts me to a regular UK columnist and noted novelist who has, as the British say, “finally tossed in her chips for a barker, the poor twee git.”* 3.  Much to my dismay, I have become addicted to

If it helps, though, try to imagine this space filled with cutesy cat photos.  That’s what I always do.

From contactmusic.com: Director Steven Spielberg wept at a premiere of pal Georg Lucas’ final Star Wars movie, Episode III: Revenge of the Sith. Jurassic Park film-maker Spielberg was so moved by the eagerly-awaited conclusion of the sci-fi saga, he burst into tears at its screening last week […]. But he’s unashamed by his tears, insisting fans will also cry at the end of the film, because its moving conclusion marks

Grey-Cheeked Mangabey:  ”Whoop-gobble whoop-gobble aw aw eet!  Aw aw eet, eet, eet, whoop gobble, eet eet!  Aw aw among increased concerns that the Volcker committee is covering up evidence that implicates UN Secretary General Kofi Annan in the scandal eet eet eet!  Eet eet whoop-gobble whoop-gooble, eet eet eet!*

From the Sunday Times Online (UK): The capture of a supposed Al-Qaeda kingpin by Pakistani agents last week was hailed by President George W Bush as “a critical victory in the war on terror”.  According to European intelligence experts, however, Abu Faraj al-Libbi was not the terrorists’ third in command, as claimed, but a middle-ranker derided by one source as “among the flotsam and jetsam” of the organisation. […] Another