Fonda:  “Well, I hate to sound all, like, petty and materialistic—and as you probably know, I’m very big into the whole sharing of ideas-thing, because I think creativity is best served by collaboration and the give-and-take you get with the genuine exchange of thought by those with truly artistic dispositions—but it kind of cheeses me off, to be honest, that this whole ‘Hookergate’ thing is getting so much media play. 

AJ Strata emails: [Patrick] Fitzgerald’s investigation appears to have learned two things: (1) somebody outside the WH and under SC protection leaked Plame’s name to the press, and (2) there is a mound of evidence there was no effort to attack the Wilsons by outing Plame. So why is this man still around distracting the nation? AJ draws on the latest filing by team Libby, which appears to single out

From Reason‘s “Brickbats” (June 2006): Uzbekistan has banned fur-lined underwear.  Sales had been climbing during the cold winter months, but the government says teh undies lead to “unbridled fantasies.” Uh, “unbridled fantasies”?  Of what, pray tell?—riding bareback on the mane of a male lion?  Getting a naked piggyback ride from Art Garfunkle?  Humping Star Jones’ hair extensions? Personally, I wouldn’t be caught dead in a pair of fur-lined panties (boxers? 

So.  It seems that not everyone was happy with my post yesterday about knowing the enemy, which used new revelations about the murder of Iraqi journalist Atwar Bahjat to highlight the barbarism of those we are fighting against (who have used the same ritualistic methods of murder in the past, videotaped those exercises in inhumanity, and released them to the press or hosted them on Islamic web sites). Let’s take

…like, for instance, the New York Times, who finds it rather gauche when thuggish jarheads and Aqua Velva-slathered Army officers—pumped up killbots, the lot of ‘em, who have the luxury of advanced training and national wealth—decide to pick on a less fortunate (but no-less hard-working), self-made Other—particularly one so clearly accomplished in slaughtering innocents as dedicated super terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.Zarqawi: The release of the captured video reflected the dueling