“A patient at a drug treatment center died of an overdose of heroin that was smuggled into the facility by another resident, police said. “Aaron Kononitz died Saturday, a day before he was to graduate from Operation PAR’s residential drug treatment program in Largo,” Newsday reports. Yep, died of an overdose. At a drug treatment center. The day before he was to graduate. …That sound you hear is the sound

So, I’m on this kinda mini-vacation while I try to get some things done around here, which means blogging is going to be spotty today and tomorrow. On the other hand, Letter from Gotham is not on vacation. And she’s taking it out on a handful of leftyblogs in workmanlike fashion. Or, er, “workwomanlike” fashion, I guess. Stupid PC language butchers.

…Speaking of movies (yes I was), I’ve been working on compiling a hyperlinked list of the movies in my collection. Y’know, in case anybody wants to trade or anything. You can peruse that list by clicking on “Jeff’s Movie Collection,” over there on the left. If you’re interested, I mean.

Aaron Hawkins responds to my earlier post on “race” and genetics (a post itself prompted by an exchange I had with Steve Sailer of the Human Biodiversity Institute), noting how “[…] there is no explicit mention of affirmative action” in my previous entries on race — the implication being that my failure to mention affirmative action by name weakens my position vis-a-vis racial identity politics, at least insofar as such

Women suicide bombers? Why, it’s the patriarchy, stupid..! (And not just the Palestinian patriarchy, either.) At least, so insists radical feminist Andrea Dworkin, writing for feminista: The Online Journal Of Feminist Construction. (Of course, you have my permission to take Ms. Dworkin about as seriously as you would, say, a blind dwarf in clown makeup who tries mugging you with nothing more than an unloaded Super Soaker and some harsh

From the “Books” section, The Times of London: “‘I had no idea that madness in the Islamic world had gone so far.‘” “V. S. Naipaul, at 70, speaks about his controversial career and reveals that ‘for the first time in my life, I’m doing nothing.” But what has really stung some Indians is [Naipaul’s] sympathy for Hindu revivalism in the form of the BJP, now in government, and his unwillingness

“The percentage of ‘deadbeat’ moms is actually higher than that of dads who won’t pay, even though mothers are more consistently awarded custody of children by the courts,” FOXNews reports. “Census figures show only 57 percent of moms required to pay child support — 385,000 women out of a total of 674,000 — give up some or all of the money they owe. That leaves some 289,000 ‘deadbeat’ mothers out

“So I like, drank a couple of shots of Goldschlager and a few beers at this party, right? And then I had like, a cigarette or three? And so they totally took away my cheerleading captainship! So I’m all like, no way! — y’know? ‘Cuz smoking and drinking can’t change the fact that I’m like, the real captain of this squad. And it’s not like everybody doesn’t know it, either.

“It was a strange place to sleep. But for some reason known only to her, a woman who regularly wandered the Ridgemont subdivision in far southwest Houston decided to lie down beneath a pickup outside somebody else’s house,” the Houston Chronicle reports. That ill-fated decision cost the woman her life early Thursday. The truck owner, not knowing anyone was under his vehicle, left his driveway to go to work. The

A few days back, I engaged in an extended set of debates with several interested parties on the idea of race — the back and forth of which prompted Steve Sailer, founder of the Human Biodiversity Institute, to pass along the link to his speech, delivered in abridged form at the Reagan Library on July 17, 2002. The occasion and purpose of Mr. Sailer’s speech I’ll let him describe: For