Dear Quagmire Guy, A friend pointed out to me this article published today in The Sun, entitled 10 years to save the planet.  It begins like this: A NEW worldwide movement backed by celebrities, musicians, politicians and business leaders is aiming to reverse the effects of global warming over the next decade. Global Cool launched in London and LA today and is calling on one billion people to reduce their

I’m a few days late to this, I realize, but Hudson Institute Visiting scholar Nibras Kazimi, who last week wrote the widely linked and debated New York Sun piece, “Turnaround in Baghdad” (about which I posted here and here), asks just how CBS came to “obtain” Al Qaeda video of dead Iraqi soldiers: Al-Qaeda’s Islamic State of Iraq released 8 minutes of cell phone footage through its media arm, the

…to John Hackathorn for the Murphy’s Romance and Tender Mercies DVDs—two films I’ve always meant to watch but for some reason never got around to doing so.  Looking quite forward to them.  Thanks to John, also, for the All-Clad Saucier Pan.  Quite a generous gift!—and one that will allow me to continue my experimentation with exotic sauces. For those of you interested in such things, my most successful sauce to

From yesterday’s Rocky Mountain News: Dylan Davis, now 36, remembers the rumors. His friends would tell him they believed his twin children were not his. They would tell him his wife had cheated on him while he was away on a ship doing his duty for the U.S. Navy around the time of the Gulf War. The couple had married in 1992. The twins, a boy and a girl, were

Jim Lindgren over at Volokh argues that the Duke Women’s Lacrosse Team should be honored for not caving, with a round-up of accusations against them.  At the very least, it appears that they are owed public apologies by a number of people.  Perhaps you can find out whether any of them have been issued. It appears that Samhita at Feministing is one of those who owes an apology.

How’d you like to see Bob Woodward get his nads kicked in? Yeah, I figured you would.

…say, is this thing even on…?

Denver’s Lillian Norgren—in what can best be described as a perfect storm of half-baked anti-war talking points—sends the following letter to the Rocky Mountain News (“Forget a ‘win’ in Iraq, let’s get out—now!”): I think it is way past time to cease the endless prattle about how to ‘win’ this fiasco in Iraq.  Let’s remove our troops, not send more in! Question:  What is there to win in Iraq?  If

Over at Hot Air, Allah links to a Daily Mail (UK) story highlighting the growing concern over the progressive’s multiculturalist project—a story that, in its way, dovetails nicely with the Melanie Phillips post Dan cited earlier (LGF video here). From “Multiculturalism ‘drives young Muslims to shun British values’”: The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found. In

For what it’s worth, if I’m to believe that some rampaging neoconservative deathsquad forced a group of six peaceful progressives at gunpoint from a Whole Foods store (where the six had gone to pick up some oil-free artichoke hearts and spirulina, and of course to pray to the sprout display), then doused them with Menorah oil and set them ablaze—all while the local Likudniks looked on in either a tacit