—and yet al Qaeda, with its medievalist sweet teas and lamb-and-date stews, still thinks it stands a chance against microwavable modernity.  Which is sad, because this IS a delicious, buttery-tasting popcorn that literally cleans your arteries while you enjoy its tasty crunchy cornbuttery goodness we’re talking about—versus, like, mandatory prayer, sand, and chicks rolled in burlap like scratching posts.  So, y’know—you might not wanna put all your eggs in that

It seems the orchestrated administration pushback against a half-year of incessant (and largely disingenuous and opportunistic) media and Dem leadership-criticism has won back—at least provisionally, and for the time being—the majority of Bush supporters, the numbers once again approximating the 2004 electoral outcome.  I wrote several times in earlier posts on Bush approval ratings that I believed, looking at the internals, that it was a GOP / conservative mutiny that

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From the AP: Mexico says its arrested four Iraqis who were trying to sneak into the United States without the proper documents. Mexico’s Attorney General’s office says police—acting on an anonymous tip—found the four aboard a bus in the northern city of Navajoa (nav-ah-HO-. That’s about 375 miles south of the Arizona border). The statement says the Iraqis were in Mexico illegally. Officials are investigating the background of the four

Both Gates of Vienna and Neo-neocon finds a great deal of strangly redundant nuance in Guardian Senior correspondent Jonathan Steele’s suggestion that Europeans use the “recent Hamas victory as a chance for Europe to try its more nuanced approach to the Middle East conflict.” I’ve touched a bit on this myself — the idea that Europe has not been heading this “peace process” for years now while relying on a

Me:  ”I’m sorry, how much?” Serena, the real estate agent: “$350 thousand for this particular configuration.  Which, do keep in mind that the tiling in the bathroom is included, as are both the dishwasher and the range.” Me: “I see.  So, say I let you keep the dishwasher.  Can we maybe get it down into the neighborhood of, I dunno, $200 thousand?” Serena, the real estate agent: “Well, that’s possible,