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

Received this email just moments ago from the New Republic’s Franklin Foer: Dear Reader, Dick Cheney’s daughter is an open lesbian-and now she is pregnant. Her presence would seem to pose a problem for conservatives. How can they decry gay unions and then fail to decry Mary Cheney’s lifestyle? In this week’s cover story Andrew Sullivan explores the conundrum represented by Mary Cheney and then dissects the conservative reaction to

refuses debate, because there is no debate. Former President Carter turned down a request to debate Alan Dershowitz about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, saying the outspoken Harvard law professor “knows nothing about the situation.” Carter, author of a new book advocating “peace not apartheid” in the region, said he will not visit Brandeis University to discuss the book because the university requested he debate Dershowitz. “I don’t want to have a

Legislators Vote for Gay Unions in N.J.

Wash. man found dead, rats eating body