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Happy 6th-month birthday, S*tchel! If you’re reading this, I think you’re the cat’s pajamas!

Reuters: “Kidnappers in Iraq released on Tuesday a Lebanese-born U.S. marine they were once thought to have decapitated, his brother said.” Wassef Ali Hassoun’s brother Sami, speaking from the northern Lebanese city of Tripoli, said his family had received word Hassoun was alive and had been freed in the early hours, but declined to specify the source of the information. The U.S. military in Baghdad could not immediately confirm that

Moore: “…Now, when you say cherry bombs, does that mean I shouldn’t have been removing the stems and eating them by the fistful all afternoon…?”

Moore: “…Now, when you say cherry bombs, does that mean I shouldn’t have been removing the stems and eating them by the fistful all afternoon…?”

Today’s must-read article: “There They Go Again,” by the Weekly Standard’s Stephen Hayes. An excerpt: As early as 1994 […] Osama bin Laden had expressed a willingness to work with Saddam Hussein. It was the Iraqis, per the 9/11 Commission report, who were reluctant to work with al Qaeda. But were they? According to numerous intelligence reports dating back to the Clinton administration, Iraq provided chemical weapons training (and perhaps

It’s a holiday. Please, have a daiquiri or something.

From Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist (and frequent blog bash attendee): “Researchers surprised by liberal bias of media” “People trying to persuade others to adopt their views are very likely to cite think-tank experts who agree with them. And the liberal lobbying group Americans for Democratic Action (their description of themselves) regularly grades politicians from 0 to 100 based on their votes on selected issues, with the most liberal

From Linda Seebach, Rocky Mountain News columnist (and frequent blog bash attendee): “Researchers surprised by liberal bias of media” “People trying to persuade others to adopt their views are very likely to cite think-tank experts who agree with them. And the liberal lobbying group Americans for Democratic Action (their description of themselves) regularly grades politicians from 0 to 100 based on their votes on selected issues, with the most liberal

Xerox Candy Bar Michael Moore poem      Ah, you’re just a copy of all the candy bars of all the ‘Michael Moore is a bulging sack of mottled lipids’ poems I’ve ever eaten written.