I’m not the most religious person in the world, but even I recognize that, to many devout Christians, abortion, say, is an unpardonable sin—a social / physical act that though sanctioned by the laws of the state and therefore legal, is nevertheless irreconciliable with the basic foundational tenets of their fundamental Christian faith.  And yet somehow I can’t for a second imagine that Steve Gilliard would spend as much time

“Drunk by halftime with a t-shirt covered in guacamole dribs and crumbled bits of lime-tinged tortilla chips” is going off at 3-1. $10 minimum bet, please. 

Tigerhawk surveys the leftside of the blogosphere to divine how as a group they are dealing with the Danish cartoon controversy (“row”?)– which today has prompted yet another embassy bombing. The results may surprise you.  If you happen to be a sponge, that is.  Or a lemur with a crank habit that keeps it’s trembling little lemur fingers from taking the pulse of our current hyperpartisan political climate.

From The Hill, Nov 6 2003, the full text of the memo from the office of Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WVa.) on setting a strategy for pursuing an independent investigation of pre-war White House intelligence dealings on Iraq” [with some of my emphases added]: We have carefully reviewed our options under the rules and believe we have identified the best approach. Our plan is as follows:

From the Chicago Tribune: A group of 23 convicted Al Qaeda members escaped Friday from a prison in Yemen’s capital, a security official said. The men were sentenced last year on various charges of terrorism, the official said. They were being held at a detention center for military intelligence in San`a. No further details were available. The escape came a day before the trial of top Al Qaeda suspect Mohammed

…to that one little pudgy orthodox Jewish kid at Camp Mildale who, in 1974 or thereabouts, I hit so hard in the back of his head with the red-rubber Greek Dodge ball that—after one of the hippie counselors finally managed to scoop him off the asphalt and reattach his beanie with a borrowed hairpin—the poor kid spent the rest of the day eating pudding and ice chips in the air-conditioned

Attila Girl emails to let me know that the various photos of Muslim protesters promising violence and vengeance I linked in yesterday’s post—“Protest pics that might not make the Transnationalist Progressives’ photo album”—have been replaced by a single, fairly-innocuous crowd shot saddled with the equally innocuous title, “Muslims Offended by Danish Cartoons.” Is this typical of Reuters (and by “typical,” I’m being straightforward:  does the Reuters feed on the Yahoo