Still working on the WordPress build—a process slowed by doctor’s appointments and some other medical issues.  Once it’s up and running, I’m going to give it 2 months to gel. After that, if I don’t see an improvement in traffic I’ll be calling it quits as a daily blogging site.  It takes a special talent to hemorrhage readers like I have, so I think it best to put that talent

this way, but what she’s arguing for is more modesty: I will never forget a visit I made to Ilana, an old friend who had become an Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem. When I saw her again, she had abandoned her jeans and T-shirts for long skirts and a head scarf. I could not get over it. Ilana has waist-length, wild and curly golden-blonde hair. “Can’t I even see your hair?”

According to my dermatologist, just because all my moles are benign doesn’t mean I shouldn’t be using 30 SPF sunscreen.  But me, I like to slather on the 15 and live life dangerously. Were I a chick, I’d be Lindsay Lohan.  And the world would be my liquor-drenched playground.

Andrew Sullivan doesn’t say so in so many words.  But, well, speaking empirically… it wouldn’t be the first time despicable, sadistic torture boosters have been sentenced to death. There is, after all, precedent for such a thing, as Sullivan notes—citing a Norwegian war crimes trial that found the Nazis guilty in 1948 of torturing, by way of “enhanced interrogation techniques,” Norwegian paramilitary insurgents caught out of uniform (likely the rest

*****NOW WITH MORE RIGHT-WING HATEFULNESS****** The big news on the left-leaning sites tonight is that according to a declassified Fitzgerald attachment to a sentencing request regarding Scooter Libby’s convictions, Valerie Plame was ‘covert’ according to the CIA at the time her information was leaked.  This was not a part of the case under which Libby was tried, which makes it interesting and suspect that it would be included in the

This morning on NPR, I heard another Colorado academic defending Churchill on grounds that the guy’s academic fraud had been brought to light as a result of his political views.  Because, you know, discovery of academic fraud is tainted by “profiliing.” But here’s the news: “This is not about dissent on campus,” ACTA’s Neal concluded. “Academics have a right to say whatever they want in the public forum. But academic

Words fail me. I cried so hard when I came out of the bathroom and saw the monkey sitting in my bed. I just knew the imbecilic ambassador was from the PW crowd when I first laid eyes on him. That’s the first Joy I have felt in four weeks. Nobody knows how this is going to turn out for me. So far, I have fallen behind every healing curve

We’re working on the build of WordPress, and we hope to have the archives moved over soon.  I will be incorporating many of your suggestions for site improvements (if I can figure out how), and I hope—too—to offer a separate forum for permanent guest posting and commentary (called the PW Pub). I’m also hoping soon to return to doing some video work for Hot Air– and to incorporate a weekly

The WaPo reports: The U.S. Secret Service expects to borrow more than 2,000 immigration officers and federal airport screeners next year to help guard an ever-expanding field of presidential candidates, while shifting 250 of its own agents from investigations to security details. *** Its $110 million-plus budget for campaign protection—two-thirds more than the record $65 million it spent for the 2004 election—was prepared when the service did not expect to

Canada Seeks Man With Groin-Kick Request Posted: May. 28 12:45 p.m. GUELPH, Ontario — Police in Ontario are looking for a man who allegedly approached women and asked them to kick him in the groin. Three women reported similar incidents to police over the past two months, and two of the women reported the suspect was on a bicycle. None of the women reported injuries. Police Sgt. Cate Welsh said