Headline from The Washington Post: “Suicide Bomber’s Father Shocked“ I suppose if I had my choice between being “shocked” by the news or blown away by it, I’d go with the former, too…

Headline from The Washington Post: “Suicide Bomber’s Father Shocked“ I suppose if I had my choice between being “shocked” by the news or blown away by it, I’d go with the former, too…

Reason’s Mike Lynch, uh, reasons his way through the latest media-fueled

Tsk, tsk, tusk,

Several South Carolina teens have been charged with “second degree lynching.” Nary a rope in sight, either…

BERKELEY: “Campus police arrested 79 pro-Palestinian protesters who stormed into a classroom building Tuesday during an afternoon of student vigils and rallies,” The Sacramento Bee reports (sorry, ‘ts new to me). Assistant Chancellor John Cummins said the arrested student protesters could face a semester of suspension, and that all the protesters — including about 20 non-students — could be prosecuted for trespassing. He said police at the University of California,

“Froguts is the first true

“Britain has imposed a de facto arms embargo on Israel for the first time in 20 years, official sources have told the Guardian. The ban applies to military equipment that could be used in Israel’s continuing operations in the Palestinian territories,” the Guardian cheerfully

“The board of Deputies of British Jews is considering making a complaint to the police over a newspaper interview with the poet Tom Paulin in which he is reported as saying that American-born settlers in Israel should be shot dead,” the U.K. Telegraph this link to his Amazon.com page. Feel free to post a thoughtful review of his books. (Me, I savaged the hateful prick, using the oft-maligned “lens” of

The world has indeed gone