Christmas in Darfur update: We’re wheels up in just over 19 hours.  I have secured data access (but the cost of data transfer is heinous).  We should, in theory, have updates posted at the blog, so keep an eye out for those. Happy Holidays, and see you all on the flipside. And a big, big thanks to those who chipped in.  With your support, we’re going in with protective gear,

Were celery seed a woman, I’d hit that.  Horseradish, too—provided she kept her armpits shaved and promised not to diddle the Clamato while I was off taking a whiz.

I’m just wondering if this is the year we here at PW should start recognizing a Troll of the Year. Is there enough grass-roots interest in such a project? Are there enough quality trolls in the field to make it a fair game? In some respects, it’s been rather a shitty year–but still. (Naturally, we must forbear from mentioning She Who Must Not Be Named For Legal Reasons–outstanding performance though

Remember when Carole King’s Tapestry album went to the top of the charts and stayed there, and stayed there, and stayed there?  It was then I knew that the Sixties were over–musically, at least. This story about Indian (subcontinental) men’s tiny penises has stayed in the top 5 of the BBC News’s Most-Emailed stories for a couple of weeks now.  I’m wondering what it will take to dethrone it.

The headline of this story is “Official Says Fla. Execution Was Botched.” Well, excuse me, but no, no it wasn’t.  Is the creep dead?  I rest my case.  Since the liberal weenies and 60’s airheads took over all of our cultural institutions, including, most damagingly, the courts, we have increasingly wandered into the land of caterpillars and hookahs.  The current obsession with making sure that executions are completely smooth and

Scott Ott and Scrappleface, with all its superb wit, came in second in the 2006 Weblog Awards to Sadly, No!? They’re just a bunch of sniggling jag-offs. James Lileks appears to have paid his minions well, for he wins the Best Individual Blog, but–come on–Glenn Greenwald in 2nd place? And Kos beats out LGF as Best Blog by 3000 votes? I guess getting dead people to vote is even easier

NOT to run for the office of POTUS in 2008 in the comments.  If you wish, you are invited to indicate why. Let the winnowing begin. NB–The response For the Children! is reserved for Jeff in this case.  I apologize for any inconvenience.

At the WSJ, today, Bret Stephens has an excellent article entitled The Road to Tehran Polite society helped pave the way for Iran’s Holocaust conference The two key paragraphs are these: Yet simply because opposition to Zionism ideologically or Israel politically isn’t necessarily anti-Semitic, it doesn’t therefore follow that being anti-Zionist or anti-Israel are morally acceptable positions. There are more than six million Israelis who presumably wish to live in

We do Christianistmas at our house the whole-hogged Waldorfy way, with the wreath and Advent candles and calendar, and every evening we sit around after dinner and read a dorky Advent story and sing a carol (the choice rotates to each in turn, beginning with the youngest), and finish with the number of verses of “People, Look East” corresponding to the week of Advent we’re in. We also observe the

From Patterico’s fave, the L.A. Times: Judge calls California’s lethal-injection procedure ‘intolerable’ Intolerable?  It’s lethal. Oh, and since Evan Bayh has announced that he’s not going to make a run for the presidency in 2008, I thought that as a courtesy to all of you I’d do the same.  I will not run, and if nominated, will not serve “If nominated I will not run, if elected I will not