me: “For some reason, I have a Bellamy Brothers song playing in a continuous loop in my head.  ‘Let Your Love Flow.’ You wouldn’t know anything about that, would you?” Klonopin:  “You mean, like, a clinical, pharmaceudically-related answer?  No, not really.  But from a psychological perspective, I’ve noticed that you’re prone to nostalgia.  And of course, that you’re crazy as a syphillitic bat.” Klonopin:  “If that helps.”

Cathy Young answers Jane Galt’s argument that “the current law [on reproductive rights] strikes me as a reasonable compromise between the needs of the women and the needs of the child”: It’s interesting that the woman and the child are the only two parties Jane seems to consider. As for the argument that other biological disparities in reproduction favor men, it is something that I have considered myself. But here’s

From the AP: Eyeing House and Senate elections this fall, Democrats are stepping up their effort to cut into the public perception that Republicans are stronger on national security. Congressional Democrats vow to provide U.S. agents with the resources to hunt down Osama bin Laden and ensure a “responsible redeployment of U.S. forces” from Iraq in 2006 in a national security policy statement House and Senate Democratic leaders were announcing

From AFP: Saudi Arabia is working secretly on a nuclear programme, with help from Pakistani experts, a German magazine reports in its latest edition, citing Western security sources. The German magazine Cicero says that during the Hajj pilgrimages to Mecca in 2003 through 2005, Pakistani scientists posed as pilgrims to come to Saudi Arabia in aircraft laid on by the oil-rich kingdom. Between October 2004 and January 2005, some of