To Eric Lindner, for the case of Bray Vineyards wines.  Bray Vineyards:  the official vineyard of protein wisdom’s almost certainly failing liver.  And soon, I suspect, to be the official vineyard of a certain thieving armor-plated grub eater who still owes me $65 for a bottle of Lagavulin. Thanks, too, to Peg Schorfheide for volume 2 of The Chaplin Collection on DVD.  Peg notes the importance of exposing my son

That Big Brother is one prickly taskmasker, is he not?  From the Washington Times, “Climate scientist sees cover-up”: A NASA scientist who said the Bush administration muzzled him because of his belief in global warming yesterday acknowledged to Congress that he’d done more than 1,400 on-the-job interviews in recent years. James Hansen, director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies, who argues global warming could be catastrophic, said NASA staffers

Garrett:  “You think he was like, coerced?  Because word on the street is, the shit they’re shooting dudes up with down at Guantanamo to get them to cop to crimes puts the finest grade heroin in the world to shame.  Which raises the question: were one hypothetically interested in becoming a hypothetical terrorist, where might one go to, you know—hypothetically sign up? “And don’t tell me one of those Islamic

From the BBC: Schools will be able to ban pupils from wearing full-face veils on security, safety or learning grounds under new uniforms guidance issued by ministers. It says efforts must be made to accommodate religious clothing, but stresses the importance of teachers and pupils being able to make eye contact. It comes after a girl failed in a legal bid to overturn her school’s niqab ban. Islamic groups have

CXXXVIII 1. When my love swears that she is made of truth, 2. I do believe her though I know she lies, 3. That she might think me some untutored youth, 4. Unlearned in the world’s false subtleties. 5. Thus vainly thinking that she thinks me young, 6. Although she knows my days are past the best, 7. Simply I credit her false-speaking tongue: 8. On both sides thus is

More media fawning uncovered, courtesy of the Weekly Standard’s “Scrapbook”: “On the question of inner-city poverty and dysfunction, Obama proposes a suite of orthodox solutions–early childhood education, after-school and mentoring programs, efforts to teach young parents how to be parents. But he also emphasizes personal responsibility: ‘The framework that tends to be set up in Washington–which is either the problem is not enough money and not enough government programs, or

Scroll to second and third photos, safe for work unless you work for a nunnery, I suppose.  Freaks. At the WaPo, William Arkin has a sensible article on Plamegate and the IIPA: Maybe Valerie Plame in fact was a skilled case officer running a key agent of some foreign intelligence service providing inside information about weapons of mass destruction. So skilled, so crucial to our national security that her husband

If having your tour of duty in Iraq was not bad enough news, the skewed MSM poll that oversampled Sunni Arabs by about 100% noted here Monday morning helped drag down the morale of the 9th Cavalry Regiment as it patrolled the dangerous streets of Baghdad in Humvees after dark: Platoon commander of the 9th Cavalry Regiment, Captain Christopher Dawson, said he understood the need for troops to stay in

My best to Ms Seipp and her family.  Cathy is not merely a pundit; she’s an honest to goodness writer.  And that, I think, is what sets her apart from so many of us toiling away here in the ether.

…but I nevertheless take the force of this Rocky Mountain News letter writer’s point: The Killing off of Captain America parallels the downward spiral our country is in.  The patriotism that used to mean love of flag and country is quickly disappearing.  But have no fear, this heroic Marvel comic character will be back…this time as Captain Americana! Of course, gone will be the trademark winged hat and red white