Bjorn Staerk, on how Norwegian popular opinion favors the Palestinian position in the latest Mideast conflagration: All the major parties and news media appear to agree that Israel is the driving force behind the violence, and holds the power to stop it. (In a recent poll, 44% sympathized most with the Palestinians, 9% with Israel, and 38% with neither. The 9% apparently consisted of elderly Christians.) Terrorism may or may

I’m shocked, Sarge! Shocked, I say! protein wisdom is what one man aspires to. No man can hope to attain protein wisdom alone… protein wisdom. It’s a way of being. [Oh. And Native Deen (“we put the Hizzya in Hizzbollah!”) rawwwwks…!]

Transterrestrial’s Rand Simberg has a thoughtful and detailed post on the often unacknowledged (among the professional pundocracy, at least) breadth of the current war on terror. Reynolds already linked to this, but if you blew it off to follow one of the Prof’s thousand other links (none of which, you’ll note, introduced you to Muslim Supergroup Native Deen— “Give a hollah’ out to Allah! Native Deen’s in the Mizz-osque!”&trade, take

Transterrestrial’s Rand Simberg has a thoughtful and detailed post on the often unacknowledged (among the professional pundocracy, at least) breadth of the current war on terror. Reynolds already linked to this, but if you blew it off to follow one of the Prof’s thousand other links (none of which, you’ll note, introduced you to Muslim Supergroup Native Deen— “Give a hollah’ out to Allah! Native Deen’s in the Mizz-osque!”&trade, take

Megan McArdle has a wonderful post on Price Elasticity of Demand and its application in understanding the economic dishonesty behind impotent CAFE regulations. Hell, she’s even posted charts and graphs.

Megan McArdle has a wonderful post on Price Elasticity of Demand and its application in understanding the economic dishonesty behind impotent CAFE regulations. Hell, she’s even posted charts and graphs.

The famed 9/11

Of frogs and humans, habitats and Aussie public toilets. Somewhere in this post, there’s a Tim Blair joke waiting to come out. (Wait, was that one?)

The Texas Chapter of NORML, the National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, has decided to hold its meeting at Double Dave

Writing in The New York Post on the Palestinian seige of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, Uri Dan quotes Israeli diplomat extraordinaire, Yitzhak Minervi: “The Palestinians in the church are keeping the [estimated] 60 priests there as a shield. They are de facto hostages.” “Three of Arafat’s top lieutenants for Bethlehem,” Dan notes, “are with the 200 Palestinian gunmen inside the church.” The three — who include Arafat’s