…though I have to admit I wouldn’t mind seeing somebody give O’Reilly a good spanking. And not over the phone this time, either.

“200 professors at CU have stood up, Billy.  They’ve stood up and been counted and have made clear that they recognize that this whole controversy has never been about anything other than an attempt to chill speech that is unpopular with the criminal right-wing establisment and its soulless lackeys.  To try to make this about anything else—my heritage, my scholarship, my art—is yet further proof of the systemic undermining of

From Ronald Bailey’s “Attack of the Killer Crops,” Reason, March 2: Activists are again trying to frighten poor people in developing countries by claiming the U.S. is poisoning them with genetically modified food. Never mind that 280 million Americans have been eating biotech-enhanced crops for nearly a decade with zero evidence that it has caused anyone so much as a sniffle or a bellyache. Friends of the Earth tested samples

Meanwhile, in news that really should concern media watchdogs—on both the left AND the right—Redstate’s Mike Krempasky points to this CNET interview with FEC commisioner Bradley Smith, which suggests the FEC may soon attempt to regulate blogging and other internet activity: In just a few months, [Smith] warns, bloggers and news organizations could risk the wrath of the federal government if they improperly link to a campaign’s Web site. Even

…sure, I can go as many times as you want, Ann.  Only this time, instead of screaming my name, I want you to scream, ‘kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity, bitch…!’

Bill INDC examines inherent areas of conflict between social conservatives and Bush foreign policy-supporting centrists and libertarians who have joined, for the time being, in a tenuous voting alliance.  Bill’s concern is that social conservatives are interpreting recent Republican electoral successes as a mandate to push their social agenda (which, of course, is natural)—but that in so doing, these social cons are, often quite arrogantly, dismissing and alienating an important

From The Weekly Standard, “Wahhabis Go Home”: IN THE PAST FEW WEEKS, Kuwait has been waging its own war on terror at home. The police have engaged in five fierce and bloody gun battles with extremists since January 10, as reported by the Associated Press. Five policemen have been killed in these encounters, along with four security men and two bystanders; foreign observers described police conduct as “ham-handed.” But the

…whether the judge whose identity was revealed last year by famed lefty “journalist” Robert Fisk (against the wishes of the Iraqi Special Tribunal and the British government, mind you) is the same judge who was assassinated today in Iraq? Because, y’know, that would be ironic. And not just ironic, but “Jeff Gannon being opposed to gay marriage despite having been photographed with a ROCK-HARD GAY PORN COCK” ironic. **** update:

From the AP: More than 2,000 people demonstrated Tuesday at the site of a car bombing south of Baghdad that killed 125 people, chanting “No to terrorism!” An Internet statement purportedly by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi’s al-Qaida in Iraq group claimed responsibility the bombing. YOUR COLONIALIST MEDDLING IS PUSHING ORDINARY IRAQIS TO JOIN THE INSURGENCY, MR BUSH,—PUSHING THEM TO JOIN WITH THE NEW GENERATION OF IRAQI MINUTEMEN FIGHTING FOR NATIONAL PRIDE

A little while back I called Mike Gallagher a “third-rate talk show host” after hearing his anti-blogger radio screed.  Well, Gallagher has since apologized for his comments.  And while I still find him a third-rate talk show host, at least he’s a third-rate talk show host with a bit of class. Unlike, say, Al Franken—who, so far as I can tell, is a third-rate talk show host with glasses. ****