In response to Captain Ed’s post on Iran’s “smoking guns” (linked in my earlier piece), Glenn Reynolds writes: [Iran’s involvement with the insurgency in Iraq] has been obvious for a long time anyway, and I don’t understand why the Bush Administration has been so slow to respond. Nor do I think that high-profile diplomacy, or an invasion, is an appropriate response. We should be responding quietly, killing radical mullahs and

They have the retractables in both blue and black?  Score!

Hey!  Mind if I ride your Pwn3y?

From the Financial Times: Iran will be able to develop enough weapons-grade material for a nuclear bomb and there is little that can be done to prevent it, an internal European Union document has concluded. In an admission of the international community’s failure to hold back Iran’s nuclear ambitions, the document –- compiled by the staff of Javier Solana, EU foreign policy chief –- says the atomic programme has been

“Five—now this is the most important, Rat. When it comes down to making out, whenever possible, put on side one of Led Zeppelin IV.”—Mike Damone (c. 1982)

On the “avant-grade”: Throughout most of my life, I have been enamored by the idea of movements and revolutions. During the decade I spent studying literature, I was always most excited by experimental, avant-grade work that took place during times of political and social upheaval (you can never read enough early twentieth century artistic manifestoes–fortunately, there is no shortage of them). When I studied critical theory and philosophy, I was

without the obligatory post about talking urinal cakes? I’m not sure that they’ll cut down on anyone’s drinking, but they’re sure as hell likely to make folks think twice before they drop acid again. Also, his post on Amanda’s new job just got funnier.  It may not be what Al Gore had in mind when he invented it, but I reckon the intertubes exist mostly to make me laugh.  And

Barak Obama is a man of principle: He said that the lives of the soldiers killed in Iraq were wasted, and, by God! he’s determined to make sure it happens! **** update [jg]:  Compare and contrast.

Ms Marcotte blames the Catholic League’s Bill Donohue for her troubles, but in truth, her anti-religious screeds (she calls them “anti-theocracy”—though the distinction seems rather disingenuous, given that her attacks tend to target religious people who actually believe the tenets of their faith), once exposed, offended more than just the perpetually aggrieved and controversial religious politico.  In fact, as