The Who’s bassist John Entwistle died today in Las Vegas. He was 57.

The Who’s bassist John Entwistle died today in Las Vegas. He was 57.

“Judge Puts Pledge Ruling on Hold.” [via FOXNews breaking news]

“Judge Puts Pledge Ruling on Hold.” [via FOXNews breaking news]

Next up? “Palestinian newpaper slurs Bush as a ‘Jesus-loving bi-ped.’” Oh well. Is it really so surprising that statements pointing to the obvious are being flung around as insults by those who have such difficulty grasping the obvious in the first place?

Frequent protein wisdom comments contributor and fellow Coloradan “Walter in Denver” has succumb to the siren song of self-adulation and started his own blog, which “promises to be heavy handed, poorly thought out, and dull. Link at your own risk.” Will do, Walt. But only because I’m a sucker for confidence and arrogance, you understand…

John Podhoretz, writing in The New York Post, thinks “the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals handed the Republican Party the keys to a political bulldozer and invited the GOP to flatten American liberalism”: Why am I so sure this is a political, ideological and financial windfall for Republicans? Take a journey with me down memory lane back to 1988, when Michael Dukakis, governor of Massachusetts and Democratic presidential candidate, found

In his most recent “Impromptus,” Jay Nordlinger fairly concisely echoes my own sentiments re: Martina Navratilova’s critique of the United States (which first appeared in the German press). Writes Nordlinger: Et tu, Martina? The Czech-born tennis champion Martina Navratilova made her fame and her fortune in the United States, land of the free, home of the brave. Now she has blasted us in — of all places (I would say)

The American Prospect’s Adam Kushner thinks Dubya’s speech on the future of the Mideast was a poor excuse for a “peace plan”: Bush should have called for a real state, not a provisional one, and established a timetable contingent on reforms in the Palestinian Authority. This couldn’t be more wrongheaded. As several commentators have argued convincingly, Bush’s speech wasn’t intended to outline a “peace plan” at all, and so shouldn’t

The American Prospect’s Adam Kushner thinks Dubya’s speech on the future of the Mideast was a poor excuse for a “peace plan”: Bush should have called for a real state, not a provisional one, and established a timetable contingent on reforms in the Palestinian Authority. This couldn’t be more wrongheaded. As several commentators have argued convincingly, Bush’s speech wasn’t intended to outline a “peace plan” at all, and so shouldn’t