In an excellent Weekly Standard feature article, Christopher Caldwell argues that “Spain’s problem with terrorism is Europe’s” problem, namely, that “it does not want to defend itself”: […] Spain’s entire sense of its safety rests on the idea that March 11 was condign punishment for its participation in the Iraq war. If Spaniards stopped believing that, they would fall into a panic, and they are fighting against a great deal

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Blogging will resume when I get the respect I damn well deserve. And not a moment sooner. Period. I hope I’ve made myself clear. **** update: Ooh, muffins, thanks! But wait, no milk…? update 2: When I said “respect,” what I really meant was muffins. Muffins. That is all.

eg. “Is that your rectum?” “Yes, that rectum belongs to me.”

eg. “Is that your rectum?” “Yes, that rectum belongs to me.”

A very loose* paraphrase of a jaw-dropping exchange between Oliver North and Alan Colmes on “Hannity and Colmes” moments ago: North: “These masked terrorists took a long knife and sawed the head off of this young American civilian contractor, then held his severed head aloft in front of the camera while yelling ‘God is great.’ Yes, what happened in Abu Ghraib prison was terrible and should never be condoned. But