“China is expected to have between 75 and 100 long-range nuclear missiles pointed at the United States by 2015, roughly quadruple the current number, according to a CIA report released Wednesday,” The Washington Post reports. Many of those intercontinental ballistic missiles will be on mobile launchers, helping China maintain a nuclear deterrent against the vastly larger U.S. missile force, says the report, titled “Foreign Missile Developments and the Ballistic Missile

For whatever reasons (bandwidth?), publishing to Blogger has been impossible today. We were able to add posts this morning, but — with the exception of a five minute window (in which time, I posted the URL to this mirror site) — we’ve been unable to post all afternoon or evening. What’s so distressing about this is that some sites using Blogger have been uneffected by the bandwidth “problem.” In fact,

from the February 2 Reason (print edition): “To attract new recruits for traffic police, British officials planned a TV commercial extolling their good works. To film the spot, they cordoned off part of a major highway at rush hour, backing up traffic for miles in several directions”…

Post-9/11 words to live by (well, words to consider living by, at least), from Jonah Goldberg of The National Review: There is nothing

Blogger’s been having all sorts of problems, so we’ve set up a Mirror Site with Greymatter.

Trying this for now, until Blogger gets less buggy.

“Two days before Charles Bishop killed himself by crashing a small plane into a skyscraper, the 15-year-old student pilot told his best friend to keep an eye on the news,” according to an AP report. “‘He said an airline was thinking of hiring him and he’d be on the news Saturday,’ the friend, Emerson Favreau, said Tuesday.” Favreau didn’t think much of the claim, since Bishop had said the same

“The makers of Minute Maid orange juice are strongly denying suggestions that its television ad campaign featuring Popeye the sailorman promotes a homosexual agenda,” WorldNetDaily reports. “‘”There’s nothing hidden in our intent,’ company spokesman Dan Schafer told WorldNetDaily. ‘There’s no hidden message to it.’” The issue gained worldwide attention after a report in the Daily Star of London featured the headline: ‘Oh Buoy! Popeye’s gone gay!’ The report analyzed a

“Paul H.,” a longtime friend and Bush-baiting New York novelist (author of a wonderfully reviewed book I won’t be plugging any time soon — at least until he takes a ride in my nice, roomy SUV and admits he likes it!), forwarded me this AP report: WASHINGTON – Enron Corp. representatives met six times with Vice President Dick Cheney or his aides about the nation’s energy policy, including a discussion

Robert Redford — ever the champion of social justice — is not content to instruct people in strategies of proper land use (“conserve,” he says — from the comfort of his sprawling ranch, of course). Nope, now the leathery Horse Whisperer-turned-Chattering Sandyblond Man-nanny is criticizing Hollywooders (and Hollywood-ettes) who opt for plastic surgery in order to stave off the debilitating effects of gravity on once perky bosoms or once strong