“Trust me, woman.  If you can’t get a simple pizza stain out of a bowling shirt, I assure you I can find me a little honey who’d be happy to put in the extra work.  And that’s not a threat—it’s a promise.” **** update:  “And she’ll have bangs a man can comb his mustache with, too.  Make no mistake about that, either, missy.”

Via ABC News: An Afghan court on Sunday dismissed a case against a man who converted from Islam to Christianity because of a lack of evidence, and he will be released soon, an official said. “The court dismissed today the case against Abdul Rahman for a lack of information and a lot of legal gaps in the case,” said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was

An interesting (alternately distressing and heartening, as I read them) set of polls from World Public Opinion.org regarding the Iraq campaign, the analysis of a few I think it essential should be pointed out to the American public.  From “Comparing Americans and Iraqis”: […] How Things Are Going in Iraq Americans … have a more negative outlook overall on the current situation in Iraq than most Iraqis themselves. Americans largely

From the March 20 WS “Scrapbook”, “Profumo After the Affair”: The Scrapbook is feeling especially decrepit at the moment, having just learned of the death of John Profumo at 91. Profumo, as readers of a certain age will recall, was the British secretary of state for war who carried on an affair with a winsome young woman named Christine Keeler who, as it turned out, was spending quality time with