in Pakistan, protesting low-mileage American imports.

Pee-wee: I don’t remember. Texan: Where are you from? Pee-wee: I don’t remember. Texan: Do you remember anything? Pee-wee: I remember… the Alamo. [Texans cheer] Pearl Harbor can be placed in the same line as the Alamo and Custer’s Last Stand. They are stories of surprise defeat and a military response. Sept. 11 fits there as well. Pearl Harbor is part of another line, though, Mansoor said. That one includes

After eight solid years of Trooferist howling about teh eeeeeevil BOOOOOOSH REGIME? Their little crusade won’t go anywhere. But to them that will mean only that the Supreme Court has joined the mainstream media and perhaps Congress in a great conspiracy to put a foreignlike man in the White House to launch a Marxist revolution with the help of his terrorist friends. For four years, maybe eight, we’ll be hearing

I denounce it: A man who got carried away at a karaoke bar has been stabbed to death for singing too much and refusing to hand over the microphone. Abdul Sani Doli was performing in Sandakan town, Malaysia, and not letting others share the limelight. A group of men grew furious that Mr Doli was hogging the stage and a brawl broke out, police said. The 23-year-old was punched and

From Politico: Obama had committed just before Thanksgiving to saving or creating 2.5 million jobs in the next two years, more than twice his campaign promise of 1 million new jobs over an unspecified period. But he didn’t say how he would do it. On Saturday, he began to spell it out, offering “five key parts” of his economic plan: —ENERGY: “[W]e will launch a massive effort to make public

From Blitz, via Theo Spark, on this day before Pearl Harbor Day: Saturday, 6 December 2008 The embers glowed softly, and in their dim light, I gazed round the room and I cherished the sight. My wife was asleep, her head on my chest, My daughter beside me, angelic in rest. Outside the snow fell, a blanket of white, Transforming the yard to a winter delight. The sparkling lights in

First, given cynn’s anger over the cheesecake photo of Bettie Page, I thought I’d put her out a little bit more by touting You Sexy Thing, a Brazilian blog that publishes glamor and arty nude shots. The guy who runs it is really nice, and it might make a nice holiday gift for someone you know. But contact the site owner first, because he hasn’t posted since 11-26. Maybe he’s

A little more deserving than, say, Krugman. None of this is news, exactly, but it might make for some stimulating discussion. And if you’ve only read about it in AP reports, this entire article is worth reading: When historians chronicle the stem cell research wars, Shinya Yamanaka will likely go down as a peacemaker. The Japanese scientist has helped send the field on a surprising end run around the moral

I Stumbled upon this. I’d read this years ago, but with the popularity of Twilight and related vampiremania in pop-culture, I thought it worth posting: Rabies causes hypersensitivity to strong stimuli, as well, so patients are often repelled by light, by bright things — such as mirrors, and by strong odors — including the smell of garlic. Rabies victims may vomit blood, Gomez-Alonso explains. And since the disease causes hydrophobia,