Uh, that’s ice.  Balls of ice, in fact—falling from the sky like Rocky Mountain oysters from miniature, castrated ice bulls. Best go inside.  Now.  Because I certainly don’t want my tombstone to read, ”Here lies Jeff.  Beaten into a bloody pulp by tiny bull balls made from ice.” What would the dead neighbors think? Developing…

Originally, eons and eons ago, I was going to write a long post, or even a series, on deterrence, suasion, and the future of the GWOT.  But I didn’t. Evidently, it can all be conveyed much more succinctly: There’s a low-casualty model (the one that Edwards, et al. seem intent on marginalizing) and the high casualty model. Your choice. Let me know how all this works out for you folks.

I had to work Saturday, and was caught up in Mother’s Day stuff yesterday, so I didn’t get to check out the news much, and glancingly.  This story, though was at the top of the news all weekend.  I don’t understand what the importance of the child’s gender is to the story, though. CORRECTION: Some outlets are specifying that it’s a “Shrill Cow”

I say yes.  Yes, we can. Alternately, it may be that this chick is just bucking for Secretary General of the UN—in which case she’s already got the right masters using her like a ventriloquist’s dummy.  So maybe congratulations are in order.

Presidential wannabe John Edwards wants YOU to help “reclaim patriotism”.  And just how do you do that?  Well, the answer might seem counterintuitive to those of us in whichever of the two Americas it is where protesting the war on Memorial Day seems a bit loathsome and opportunistic.  In the other America, though, here’s how you can reclaim patriotism from people who actually support the troops rather than condescend to

from the weekend, that I didn’t particularly think appropriapic for Mother’s Day. First, from David Thompson, red-hot furniture sex. Second, PowerLine are threatening to liveblog the Miss Universe pageant, which seems to me like listening to the Westminster Dog Show on radio.  I.e., it would be nice to have actual visuals.  They seem to like Miss Brazil, and she has impressive assets.  Personally, I’ll be rooting for Miss Turks and