Moe Lane brings important news: Pride & Prejudice & Zombies is going to be a real book, and possibly a real movie! And once Joss Whedon gets ahold of it, possibly a new series!* At this moment, one can only wish that Susan Sontag were here to tell us what it’s truly about. *sigh* *Will somebody eat Mr. Collins’s brain? Please? Speaking of brain eating, this gets headlines at NPR,

Hopey in our changeyness! Happy Birthday, Abe! Fortunately for us, we’ve got that other Illinus from Hawaii, Honest O! the Hairsplitter. Contact your Shannen Doherties about the transparency thingie. From Jonathan Wilton: How To Write a Screed—

Trial lawyers hardest hit. By popular request.

Post-partisan Messiah and advocate of new politics President Obama doesn’t stop at politicizing the national census: I am talking here about Obama’s new job for his dirt digger in residence, the newly minted job of “White House counsel research director.” It’s a grand title for dirt digger, but there you have it. As the Washington Times reported on February 9, President Obama invented a new position into which he slipped

As for my being obnoxious, if the truth is obnoxious, then I am guilty as charged.

From Maggie’s Farm via Theo Spark, this Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works piece: This latest warning about global warming alarmism follows the declaration that “the political consensus surrounding climate policy is collapsing” by University of Colorado Professor Dr. Roger Pielke Jr. on February 7, 2009. Pielke, Jr., accepts the UN IPCC view of global warming, bluntly called the current carbon trading based policy proposals to address man-made global

Don’t really link to Pamela much, but this is . . . intriguing: This is un-frickin-believable. The financial crisis was deliberate, planned, staged. Who made the run? “Someone threw us in the middle of the Atlantic ocean without a life raft. We are trying to determine which is the closest shore and whether there is any chance in the world to swim that far. We don’t know.” Hello? Senator Leahy?

Accused Mumbai massacre plotter sexually abused/tortured by white woman interrogator. And some Iowahawk: “The number itself is incomprehensible by human minds, and can only be theoretically understood in a fractional parallel universe which we refer to as the DC dimension,” said Brossard. “The best way to understand a stimulus is to imagine a dollar sign followed by a packed string of hexidecimal nanodigits, wound into a triple helix, woven into

Hurricane Paglia has redescended on Salon: Speaking of talk radio (which I listen to constantly), I remain incredulous that any Democrat who professes liberal values would give a moment’s thought to supporting a return of the Fairness Doctrine to muzzle conservative shows. (My latest manifesto on this subject appeared in my last column.) The failure of liberals to master the vibrant medium of talk radio remains puzzling. To reach the

Were it me running the Republican party, I’d give up on being pragmatic and cut the 3 Senatorial defectors loose. Because if they’re willing to vote for this travesty of a “stimulus” package, they are not in any way committed to free enterprise, personal responsibility, or personal freedom — and so letting them dangle as independents, or even join with Democrats, is preferable to watching them provide a veneer of