—No, I didn’t forget.  But if you want the truth, I simply can’t find the little guy.  No note, no email, no messages on the answering machine, nothing. Normally, I’d be getting a little worried about now, but when I went to the fridge to grab a snack, I noticed that my bucket of Corona Light minis was missing—along with a foot long roast beef and cheddar hoagie, and a

“In the land of hungry blinkered horseflies, everything looks like a tasty and inviting dungheap.”

[update:  for those Mahablog / Greenwald readers who happen to click through (and not simply rely on the inference that I have called for the prosecution of all reporters, or called them nefarious, traitoress cockroaches), see both my second and penultimate paragraphs.] From FOXNews: A CIA officer has been relieved of his duty after being caught leaking classified information to the media. CIA officials will not reveal the officer’s name,

Allah brings to my attention this subhead from an ABC News report:  “Lack of Fund and Support May Force Hamas to Return to Violent Ways.” Which, were one to restate it more directly, would look something like this:  “Failure to Give in to Terror Group May Force Terror Group to Turn to Terror.” But I guess that kind of directness makes one appear to have an ideological agenda with the

From James Taranto, WSJ Opinion Journal: […] The idea that “politics ends at the water’s edge”—that whatever political differences exist between Americans, it is important for the nation to present its enemies and allies with a united front—largely prevailed in both parties from 1941 until 1968, when it was shattered by intraparty Democratic dissent over Vietnam. Today every prospective Democratic presidential candidate except Hillary Clinton is going out of his

A frightening vision of the future?  Or a dream from which Atrios awakens—simultaneously aroused and a bit ashamed—to find his stumpy Duncan jr. still semi-tumescent, his sheets puddled and tacky from a longing that, alas, millions of slackjawed Rethuglican voters refuse to let come to pass…

A new Pajamas Media feature, in podcast form: Among this show’s topics are the rise of nuclear Iran, the US visit of China’s President Hu and how that relates to the behavior in China of Google, Yahoo and Microsoft, and the departure from the White House of press secretary Scott McClellan. Discussing these issues and more are bloggers Glenn Reynolds, Tammy Bruce and Eric Umansky. They are moderated by blogger