You know, once you’re done smothering your salad in marinated artichoke hearts, olive slices, bacon bits, and bleu cheese dressing, it’s not any less fattening—or any more healthy—than a Good Times double cheese burger and a large side of onion rings.  Which, by the way, is absolutely filthy with protein. So. Stop living the lie, people.

I’ve heard rumblings of this before, but to me it has always been somewhat fantastical—like the nanotech in Neal Stephenson novels, or the relationships in a Nora Ephron film.  But maybe not: The U.S. military wanted to investigate the potential of “insect reconnaissance,” so University of New Mexico chemical engineer C. Jeffrey Brinker answered the call. The initial idea was to maintain honeybee colonies and analyze the nectar and pollen

From Michael Rubin, The Corner: Former French Prime Minister Raymon Barre accuses the “Jewish Lobby” of victimizing Vichy official Maurice Papon who had been convicted of sending hundreds of French Jews to their deaths.  Barre said, “Opposing the deportation of Jews had not been a matter of major national interest.” Anybody else think that if Wes Clark really wanted to be President, he’d have a better shot moving to France

[Friday update:  follow-up post here] Dan already linked to the piece earlier, but I think it’s worth excerpting the following extended bit from Matt Sanchez’s Salon piece, “Porn Free”: Why did I become a conservative? Just look at what I left, and look at who is attacking me today. Let’s face it: Those on the left who now attack me would be defending me if I had espoused liberal causes

Because I don’t want to wind up in the hospital. As for the critics–jealous, much? David Thompson looks into the Porntastic Form. Hmmmmmmm.  Wonder if Glenn Reynolds has one of these, yet.  Heh. A question for Bill Richardson: Have you behaved inappropriately or not in public settings with female members of your government administration, jokingly or not? Have you gestured to female public servants and political appointees—who work as colleagues

Last night, as you’re probably aware by now, one of the Libby jurors, appearing on Hardball, called on President Bush to pardon Scooter Libby: “I would like him to get” a pardon from Bush, Redington said. “It kind of bothers me that there was this whole big crime being investigated and he got caught up in the investigation as opposed to in the actual crime that was supposedly committed.” At

Okay, I somehow killed my first attempt.  That’s what you get when you edit in the browser rather than doing a cut and paste from something more reliable. Anyway, in the first installment in this series, I was told that Bushmills is better than Jameson.  I will get back to you on that after I go shopping again.  If it costs a lot more, then I cannot count it as

“I only regret that I have but one life to lose.  Now, who wants port!”

1.  Thanks to Ann Kellett for the Little Miss Sunshine and Flags of Our Fathers DVDs.  I’m looking forward to both of them.  My wife saw LMS on a flight a few months back and assures me I’ll like it.  And if anybody’d know, she would. 2.  All these years, I’ve been crediting Nazareth for “Love Hurts.” How foolish I feel.  Is there nothing Gram Parsons didn’t have his fingers