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July 12, 2006

A brief reply to “right-leaning civil libertarian” Glenn Greenwald (UPDATED)i

Originally posted in the comments to this QandO post: Ah, Greenwald. You and Mona may have duped [QandO’s Jon] Henke, but I see through you, buddy. You’re the blogosphere equivalent of The Monkees — only without Nesmith’s talent or Davey Jones’ boyish good looks. You write: And the purpose of linking to the Sadly, No post was to demonstrate that the Grand Victim of the Weekend himself, Jeff Goldstein, routinely

The “A Bush Kultist fends off his singular moment of existential crisis” poem

for Glenn Greenwald**** “One time, drunk on Scotch and heavy with crab bisque, I found myself wondering, Why do the terrorists hate      us so? “But then I sat up straight, shook it off, and had my butler fetch me a ripe homo, Whom I promptly condemned      to hell.”                —written on a yacht piloted by laughably underpaid Haitians, July 11, 4:22 PM

Watership Up?

From the August/September Reason (print edition): Doctors at the Institute for Regenerative Medicine at Wake Forest University report success in regrowing healthy cells for diseased rabbit penises.  Researchers say the process could pave the way for treating impotence in human beings. —Which, while swell news for impotent males, is nevertheless a bummer for the French, who have long considered diseased rabbit penises something of a delicacy. Or am I’m thinking

a CITIZEN JOURNALIST reports from battleground, USA, 2

So I’m out for a walk with my kid a few minutes ago when swear I see Kofi Annan at the playground near my house, arbitrating a dispute between two teenagers over an ounce of Boléia (or maybe Acapulco red—I was too far away to tell).  Which, yes, I realize that seems highly improbable—until, that is, you factor in that the dispute escalated into a gun fight, and that the

“DCCC Uses Dead Soldiers to Raise Money”

From Red State: The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has a new fundraising pitch going out. It uses September 11th and our troops to raise money. But, instead of using those images to show Democrats would be tougher on terrorists and make America more secure, it uses pictures of dead soldiers in their flag draped coffins and the subtle threat of harm from September 11th to make a threat to the

“Olmert Blames Lebanon for Attack, Sends in Troops”

Via Bloomberg News: Prime Minister Ehud Olmert blamed Lebanon for a Hezbollah attack on Israel he said was “war-like’’ and called for a “painful and far-reaching’’ response. Israeli troops entered Lebanon, the daily Haaretz reported, as an army spokeswoman said a call-up of reservists was on the agenda. The military action came after the armed Hezbollah group said on its Web site it captured two Israeli soldiers. The army said