From the BBC: Saddam Hussein’s lawyers say they have not yet been given any details of the case against him. Iraq’s government has said the former leader could go on trial within months over alleged crimes against humanity. But the lawyers say they have none of the estimated eight million documents relating to the case, and have not been formally told of the charges. Saddam Hussein has been allowed two

Under the proper circumstances, a broccoli crown inadvertantly scorched in the microwave can smell an awful lot like the feet of a late-twenties Scotch-Irish woman who’s just completed a spirited game of racquetball.

Ah, the American “progressivist” left: where actual Klan membership is forgiven and tacitly apologized for in favor of the kind of cheap, canned irony implicit in facile suggestions that a bit more than half of the voters in the US are the real racists, even if they don’t know it. Derrida might call such “analysis” arche-writing; me, I just find it sad when this kind of fevered partisanship cooks the

I mean, Batman…?  Please!  Give me Dudley Do-Right over some self-pitying billionaire in a cowl any day. **** cross-posted at sda.

You know what would make an awesome t-shirt?  ‘Happiness is a plateful of cold liver’ spelled out in tiny paw prints below a picture of a tabby kitten in a cute li’l chef’s hat and apron!  Could sell millions of those, I bet! Christ, do I ever need an agent…

From the AP: For years, disposable cameras have been a magnet for last-minute photographic whimsy, encouraging all manner of embarrassing pictures from weddings and other social events. Watch out: There’s now a disposable video camera. The $29.99 pocket-sized digital video cameras are able to capture up to 20 minutes of video and sound. CVS Corp. stores, which has exclusive rights to sell them, will process the camera for $12.99 and

Is there anything in the world better than Anne Murray?  No.  No there most certainly is not! **** cross-posted at sda.

“Jimmy bought a handful of shallots which, having first crushed them with the heavy wooden sole of a Dutch clog he’d salvaged from an Amsterdam cathouse, he cut into pulpy lines and snorted through the hollowed-out wren femur he kept on his person for just such an occasion.”

Admittedly not as big a deal as a few isolated instances of Qu’ran desecration, but nevertheless a timely reminder that not all of the villains in the War on Terror are U.S. servicemen and their crusading, bloodthirsty overlords in the Bushco power cabal.  From FOXNews: A father and a son are among four men who have been detained in a terrorism investigation in Northern California. The son allegedly received terrorist