Via Allah, I’m pointed to this post by Jill at Feministe that begins with a discussion of the mistreatment of women in Saudi Arabia (using the story of Rania al-Baz as its jumping off point) but ends, disappointingly, as a reminder that, like Saudi Arabia, we here in the US are guilty of crimes against women—and that, in our readiness to demonize the Saudi Other, we shield ourselves from our

People see Miers get the Supreme Court slot and it reminds them of when they played Little League baseball and didn’t get to pitch because the coach’s son got the slot even though he wasn’t as good. —Black Jack responds to Hugh Hewitt

Q: What do you get when you cross the UN and Kofi Annan with the internet?* A: A 404 page that loves the Cognac and hates the Zionists. Oh.  And a pissed off Roger Simon, to boot.

From the Dallas Morning News: She may have no judicial record, but Supreme Court justice nominee Harriet Miers took firm stances on issues ranging from taxation to democratic reforms abroad as a one-term member of the Dallas City Council, a Dallas Morning News study of city records indicates. For example, in 1991, Miers voted in favor of a council resolution reaffirming economic sanctions Dallas had imposed against South Africa, then

Jay Caruso needs your help—though his cause is a helpless one.  The substitute Rally Monkey, who has led the Angels to two straight victories, chortles at Jay’s presumptuosness…

From the Times-Picayune: Acting New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday that as many as 40 officers from the department’s 3rd District, including the commanding captain, are “under scrutiny” for possibly bolting the city in the clutch and heading to Baton Rouge in Cadillacs from a New Orleans dealership. “It is a subject that is under review,” Riley said, stopping short of saying he has launched a formal investigation.

—well, before you get too excited, I should let you know that the little guy signed on with the Angels as a substitute “Rally Monkey” when their first-string Rally Monkey, “Pierre,” came down with food poisoning from eating spoiled mashed banana off the pocked breasts of some enormous Bronx hooker. The pay is decent—and the team plane is like an airborn Ritz-Carlton, he tells me—but he hates wearing the monkey

Rox Populi wants to know what would it take for the Dems to get your vote in ‘06 and ‘08?  Serious answers only, please.  And if you can manage it, post your responses onto both sites. My answer, which I left in the comments at RP: In 2000 I didn’t care who won, though I disliked Gore, who seemed impossibly artificial. But now, after 5 years of listening to Dems,

Krauthammer on Harriet Miers. From “Withdraw This Nomination”: For half a century, liberals have corrupted the courts by turning them into an instrument of radical social change on questions—school prayer, abortion, busing, the death penalty—that properly belong to the elected branches of government. Conservatives have opposed this arrogation of the legislative role and called for restoration of the purely interpretive role of the court. To nominate someone whose adult life