A few days ago, our good friend Jill at Feministe expressed the requisite feminist outrage over t-shirts being sold by Abercrombie that, to Jill’s way of thinking, “[promote] female stupidity, vapidity and competition […].” Others, too, found these shirts outrageous — and soon a “girlcott” against Abercrombie forced the clothier to pull the line.  Evidently, self-effacing irony is not a favorite literary technique among the perpetually earnest activist set. Anyway,

From Drudge: Sources tell Drudge that early this afternoon House Speaker Hastert and Senate Majority Leader Frist will announce a bicameral investigation into the leak of classified information to the WASHINGTON POST regarding the “black sites” where high value al Qaeda terrorists are being held and interrogated. Said one Hill source: “Talk about a leak that damaged national security! How will we ever get our allies to cooperate if they

…to the whole Wally Hettle / Paul Deignan dustup. A few things, for the record: 1.  I don’t hold Bitch PhD responsible in any way for the comments made by Wally Hettle.  I also don’t think Paul should be trying to out her identity.  My beef has always been with Hettle’s actions, which its seems to me were an egregious misuse of his position.  In the comments on this site

From the AP : Police arrested 17 terror suspects in Australia’s two biggest cities Tuesday in raids authorities said foiled a plot to carry out a catastrophic terror attack. A radical Muslim cleric known for praising Osama bin Laden was charged with masterminding the plot. More than 500 police backed up by helicopters were involved in raids across Sydney and Melbourne, arresting eight men in Sydney and nine in Melbourne