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.