From the Rocky Mountain News this morning: Two New Berlin West High School students in Milwaukee were kicked out of a girls basketball game last week after they chanted “air ball” at opposing players when they touched the ball after they hit nothing but air on shots.  The students were kicked out after parents of the opposing team, Greenfield High School, whined, er, complained. “Everybody does it,” Nick Roamer, one

Smokers trying to quit the habit were mistakenly prescribed anti-impotence drug Viagra by doctors. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the error was due to a computer glitch at two city GP practices. When GPs selected anti-smoking pill Zyban, computers selected sildenafil, the generic name for Viagra. UPDATE: Maybe they could just combine the two, and kill the urge to light up after you get squidgy.

The Danish are both dynamic and happy Denmark is the EU’s most competitive and dynamic economy, according to the World Economic Forum (WEF). Denmark has done most to meet the goals of the EU’s Lisbon strategy, which commits the union to far-reaching economic and social reforms by 2010. Among Europe’s largest economies, Germany ranked fifth in the WEF survey while the UK and France came sixth and ninth respectively. WEF

Yahoo News has a slideshow devoted to the Suffolk Strangler prostitute murder case in the UK, if that’s your bag.

Both military dictators, both bastards, both Latin-Americans.  One leftist, one rightist in their authoritarian styles.  Both dead, if this is true. So, while Yglesias excoriates the WaPo for noticing (in the wake of yesterday’s op-ed in the WSJ) that some of the market reforms made by Pinochet have contributed to Chile’s robust economy, the quartet practices in the park and we sing dirges in the dark.  On the other hand,

From the BBC: Why are Jews attending a conference on the Holocaust in Tehran at which star guests include deniers of the genocide? Wait, wait . . . I think I know!  Because they’re morons? Clue: they also want an end to the Israeli state. Yay!  I’m right! A handful of Orthodox Jews have attended Iran’s controversial conference questioning the Nazi genocide of the Jews – not because they deny

Dante Chinni, a senior associate at the Project for Excellence in Journalism, writes in the Christian Science Monitor that Bill Roggio’s blogging—including his current embed in Iraq—has value, BUT: His bias can be overwhelming at times – his posts can sound a lot like government talking points filtered through war stories. When he’s not filing stories from a war zone, he likes to take issue with the mainstream media’s reporting

“i come in peace” Malkin has the story, but the update is priceless, with quotes from Ro’s blog. I know that some of you are Godzilla fans, but I just want to say–Gamera would totally kick her lardy ass.

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP)—Troy Smith’s Heisman Trophy was shipped home because airport security would not allow the Ohio State quarterback to take it on the plane Tuesday. Well, I mean, wouldn’t you freak out at the sight of a large black man carrying a heavy object toward the gate?  When asked to comment, DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff said, “Man, you people have really short memories.  OJ won the Heisman, and we