—Meh.  Not gonna happen, I’m afraid.  When the little guy slipped out of his shell for a 12 pt EKG this morning, he inadvertently caught a glimpse of his reflection in the stainless steel tip of the nurse’s stethoscope.  And, judging by his reaction—he burst into tears and cursed the maker’s of Cajun Jerky and Yoohoo—he won’t be shoveling his folded gut bulk into dance leotards anytime soon, I don’t

Via Allah, guest posting for Ms Malkin:  “Unconfirmed:  ABC Suspends John Green for one month.” Green, you’ll recall, had one of his emails bashing the President published by Matt Drudge, causing him some rather temporary grief; now, The New York Observer, who—along with TV Newser—is reporting on the suspension, also notes points out a New York Post “Page Six article” that […] quoted from another Green e-mail, this one about

Decision ‘08’s Mark Coffey emails: Followers of PlameGate will be delighted to hear that the agenda-less, objective Joe Wilson will be appearing with such luminaries as Jane Hamsher, Dan Froomkin, and Larry Johnson to discuss matters at the YearlyKos convention. I swear I’m not joking… …to which protein wisdom replies, “wait, there’s something called a ’YearlyKos Convention’?  Christ.  They’ll probably be enough tinfoil at that thing to grill up a

Tigerhawk discusses what he learned while attending a “roundtable” discussion on the Iranian nuclear crisis at Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School last evening.  Participating were Ali Ansari (University of St. Andrews in Scotland), Johannes Reissner ( head of the Department for Near East and Africa at the German Institute for International Politics and Security in Berlin), Frank von Hippel (professor of public and international affairs and co-director of the Program on

No word on those irregular moles, which I’m told to take as good news.  So one worry down. On the heart front, I spent this morning at the cardiologist.  My EKG was normal; the cardiologist scheduled me for a stress echo next Wednesday—an echocardiagram, then some treadmill work, then a second echocardiogram.  I can’t wait! He also put me on an antacid, Protonix, to see if it relieves some of

Fact:  if I don’t eat this last delicious mini Hostess fruit pie (peach), somebody else certainly will.  So, unless one happens to adhere to either an ascetic or a showily magnanimous philosophical worldview—which, blessedly, I don’t—gobbling this puppy down is like, a no-brainer, when you stop to consider it…

Via PJ Media, whose Iraq Files Project is gaining a good deal of attention worldwide, comes yet another translation of a captured Iraqi document, this time appearing on Ray Robison’s site (with analysis).* This particular document, if the translation is correct, is of a memo that “contains a detailed list of instructions on how Iraqi intelligence personnel should conduct themselves while ‘visiting’ Afghanistan’”. The memo itself is not too lengthy,

Canada’s Western Standard Magazine / blog (which publishes Mark Steyn and Kate McMillan, among others) is being sued for publishing the Danish Mohammed cartoons.  I hate to keep beating this drum, but the Orwellian concept of “tolerance” driven by the implied authority within identity politics for a particular identity group to determine the parameters of acceptable speech relating to that group, is completely anathema to western classical liberalism—and in fact

American journalist Jill Carroll has been released.  This is a good thing.  The Jawa Report and Stop the ACLU have more. **** update:  Apparently Ms Carroll was treated like a princess by her noble and gentlemenly kidnappers, who snatched her up three months ago simply to protest the occupation of their country by the forces who liberated 25 million Iraqis from under the boot heel of Saddam Hussein.  Such a