Geraldo: “This cannot stand. He has impugned my honor.

Geraldo: “This cannot stand. He has impugned my honor.

Moira Breens applauds American arrogance: I went round and round with a friend in early October on the subject of American “arrogance”. His assumption was that they hate us because we are arrogant, and we are arrogant because we do such things as lob missiles at whomever and wherever we please. I argued that the paltry missile-lobbing was wrong not because it was arrogant but because it was ineffectual –

Moira Breens applauds American arrogance: I went round and round with a friend in early October on the subject of American “arrogance”. His assumption was that they hate us because we are arrogant, and we are arrogant because we do such things as lob missiles at whomever and wherever we please. I argued that the paltry missile-lobbing was wrong not because it was arrogant but because it was ineffectual –

Tony Adragna interviews Claus (the Jolly dude, not some random Austrian guy).

Tony Adragna interviews Claus (the Jolly dude, not some random Austrian guy).

Bruce R. over on Flit has a series of instructive posts on what he

In what Chris Pellerito at Liberty Blog is calling the “Slander of the Year,” <I>The New York Times,</I> unable to control itself until after the holidays (at the very <I>least</I>) takes <a href=”http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nyregion/AP-Time-Person-of-Year.html “>this potshot</a> at His Rudyness:<blockquote>Giuliani had his share of difficulties — from a series of fatal police shootings of unarmed black men in which he reflexively defended the officers, to a losing battle with the Brooklyn Museum

Following up on a report in The Telegraph that uranium was discovered in an al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan, but that the uranium was U-238, Alex Knapp at Heretical Ideas writes: if al-Qaeda’s uranium was U-238 then they got scammed, because U-238 is virtually non-radioactive. The reader also points out that there are con-men who make a living selling U-238 and depleted uranium (non-radioactive) to terrorists. Nice to know that Dark

Following up on a report in The Telegraph that uranium was discovered in an al-Qaeda base in Afghanistan, but that the uranium was U-238, Alex Knapp at Heretical Ideas writes: if al-Qaeda’s uranium was U-238 then they got scammed, because U-238 is virtually non-radioactive. The reader also points out that there are con-men who make a living selling U-238 and depleted uranium (non-radioactive) to terrorists. Nice to know that Dark