Jawa Report has posted the first part of his 4 part interview with the family of Roy Hallums, a civilian contractor held hostage in Iraq since November.  As Rusty notes in his email, “the Hallums family has asked that we not forget the plight of Roy and other civilian hostages in Iraq.” So if you can tear yourself away from the week-long televised excitement of Pope-a-palooza—or the blogging spectacle of

‘Microwave on high for 4 minutes’?  Why, even I can do that, he thought. And so it happened that for the first time since she left him, the wheels of her suitcase tracing a trail of broken black scuffs to the lip of the foyer, he enjoyed a nice hot lunch—in this case, low-carb roasted turkey breast with mushroom gravy and a good-sized serving of cut green beans.

Q: How many Pope Benedict XVIs does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Yeah, right.  God didn’t invent Bishops for nothing, you know.

Takes the name Benedict XVI; immediately blesses Norm’s barstool. Huh?