For those of you still interested in the plight of heavyset folk vis-a-vis airplane seats (and other slights against “people of size”), you might check out Stephen Hayes’ “The Girth of a Nation.” Me, I’m gonna chew on Dubya’s speech for a bit. I’m hopin’ that after further mastication the whole thing’s won’t prove as difficult to swallow as did that one bit about Arab-Muslim culture being a culture of

Yasir Arafat claims that he was born in Jerusalem, but he was actually born in Cairo. He claims to belong to the prominent Jerusalem family of Husseini, but he is at best only distantly related to it. He claims that he turned down a chance to go to the University of Texas, but according to one biographer, the Palestinian-born writer Sa

The Weekly Standard’s Jonathan Last has seen the future, and he’s impressed: ‘Minority Report’ is a fully adult movie, different than anything he’s done before. Gone is the desire to give high-minded civics lessons. Gone is the obsession with the inner-child’s sense of wonder. Instead, he gives us a character driven movie. Spielberg may be working on a gigantic canvas, but in many ways, ‘Minority Report’ is a small movie.

From the editors of The New Republic, whose tolerance for the Palestinian collective — and for the Bush/Powell handling of the Mideast crisis — has reached the breaking point: Of course Palestinians went and slaughtered Israelis: The president of the United States was about to propose the creation of a ‘provisional’ Palestinian state. This presented the Palestinians with an emergency. The Palestinian dream was drawing closer to its realization; the

…And evidently, so does Jay Nordlinger, who in his latest “Impromptus” column questions Dubya’s recurring fitness trope: So, President Bush is leading a war on fitness, or a war for fitness, or against unfitness, or whatever we should call it. Great. Most people will hail him for doing this, or at least not object. But is this really what the chief executive of a liberal republic should be doing? Should

…And evidently, so does Jay Nordlinger, who in his latest “Impromptus” column questions Dubya’s recurring fitness trope: So, President Bush is leading a war on fitness, or a war for fitness, or against unfitness, or whatever we should call it. Great. Most people will hail him for doing this, or at least not object. But is this really what the chief executive of a liberal republic should be doing? Should

Here’s one of those sentences you imagine you can go your whole life without hearing, but then you hear it, and you’re like, “Wow. I figured I could go my whole life without hearing that crazy sentence”: A man who hammed it up in an Australian bar by donning pork chops as shoes is being sued by a customer who claims he broke his arm when he slipped on the

Somebody out in blogland sent me the following note, which I found a little strange: That’s the Way the Blogosphere Judicates: So Tony has got this new proposal. Seems that Tony is No. 20 when you do a Google search for “Tony,” and if enough people link to Tony to get him to be the No. 1 Tony by July 9, he (Tony, that is) won’t pull the plug on

Oh Lordy! Now my pals the Skunkfuckers have gone and bought themselves a man-eatin’ plant! Is there no end to the perversion? Man, that Canadian beer must be strong…