“A Saudi prince smuggled a 4,400-pound load of cocaine from Venezuela to Paris on his personal aircraft under diplomatic immunity, U.S. drug investigators charged Wednesday,” The Nando Times reports. “Nayef bin Sultan bin Fawwaz Al-Shaalan, a prince who prosecutors said is not in the line of succession to the Saudi throne, was indicted along with three others on two drug conspiracy counts.” Officials said they don’t know the prince’s whereabouts

Fight the good fight, Radley.

Joe Elliott: “….C’mon. It’ll be just like when Cheap Trick did ‘Live from Buddakan’ — only in our case, we can pick up some deck furniture afterwards, maybe even a couple of those really nice window fans you’re always going on about.” Rick “Sav” Savage: “Well, okay… But only if we get a discount on the fans. I still have my pride, you know.”

Writing in The Weekly Standard, David Tell asks, “Who Is Syed Athar Abbas? And what was he doing with a $100,000 ‘fine particulate mixer’ last summer?” (Note: If you answered, “blending daiquiris,” you’re not half as funny as you think you are. Blunt of me to say, I realize. But so true.)

You’ve really gotta hand it to Joel Mowbray: he just won’t let the State Department off the mat, dag bless him. Nor should he. Let the weasels squirm, I say. Here’s a bit from today’s drubbing in the National Review: The State Department is fighting a terrorism task force’s recommendation that suspected terrorists be denied visas — this is the same department that wants to hold onto the visa-issuance power

And to think, I used to believe that this dude was crazy… Yeah. Crazy like a money-chucking, caravan-leading, rocket launcher-toting Libyan fox, maybe…

Wow. Take away all the cursing I do, and I’m not even remotely funny… [Related: That Noam Chomsky’s one insipid little cockring, ain’t he…? I mean, talk about an assface! Am I right…? Work with me here, people. [tap tap] …Hey, is this thing even on…?]

Commenting on the story of a teenager’s death at a Georgia gun show, Oliver Willis proposes that we pass legislation outlawing all accidents. And all criminals too — just in case the anti-accident laws prove difficult to enforce. …Or maybe it was me who proposed those things, I can’t remember. Whatever. Check Oliver’s comments section for details. All’s I know is, once some dude started talking about giving pistols to

7 more dead in Tel Aviv. Scores injured. All part of the Palestinian peace project — this time courtesy of the fuzzy bunnies of Islamic Jihad. This latest bombing occured as members of Israel’s parliament discussed a plan to provide humanitarian relief for Palestinian “refugees.” Sorry. I just don’t see the shade of grey here.

The site’s been down for close to 16 hours now — and continues to be “down,” in every important sense. In fact, the only reason you’re seeing this page is because I’ve deleted most of the individual archive pages to clear some “space.” By any reasonable accounting, I should have plenty of space — but then, machines aren’t at all reasonable. Which is why Al Gore must never be elected