Just peeked into my backyard to find the wreckage of my patio set strewn about like so much splintered driftwood.  Seems a strong prairie wind not only snapped a teak picnic umbrella into pieces at the base, but it likewise cracked the rear legs on two matching chairs and the seat of a matching bar stool.  $500 worth of damage, pre-taxes, I figure.  I’m gonna go take a nice, long

It might be due to an anticipatory invocation of Jane’s Law, but the rising sentiment of ’What’s good for the goose, is good for the gander’ as applies to a number of arenas might not be a bad thing after all.  On the other hand, is this approach an invitation to the hunting of witches? Well, at any rate, I ran across this today, and it got me to thinking…

No, not from me.  From the LA Times. —Which means that, unlike the author of, say, the Martha Stewart Chronicles, the dude who wrote this bit is actually getting paid for it. God bless him.

From Arutz Shiva: A former Israel Broadcasting Authority news editor admits: “We slanted the news towards a withdrawal from Lebanon – because we had sons there.” Speaking at the Haifa Radio Conference on Monday, several former and current news broadcasters on Voice of Israel and Army Radio discussed the tremendous influence they nearly all agreed they had on Israel’s national agenda. Dr. Chanan Naveh, who edited the Israel Broadcasting Authority

“Nigger, please.” (h/t Dan)

“Sorry about that, Mr. Arachnid.  But the pantry is simply not big enough for the both of us.”

Again from Reason’s July print edition, Jacob Sullum, “Hello to Arms”: Through a combination of possession restrictions and storage requirements, the District of Columbia effectively prohibits the vast majority of Washingtonians from keeping guns in their homes in self defense.  In a sense, then, it was not really surprising when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit concluded last March that D.C.’s gun law violates the

When we surrender control of language to the receiver—that is, when we insist that the important intent in the communications process belongs to the person decoding the message—we open ourselves up to the very kinds of ludicrous arguments that Crooks and Liars’ John Amato makes here: Brit Hume called former Senator John Glenn a “partisan—spearchucker” to describe his role in a Fred Thompson investigation back in his old Senate days

From Ronald Cass, Chairman of the Center for the Rule of Law, Dean Emeritus of Boston University School of Law, and Author of The Rule of Law in America.writing at Real Clear Politics: On May 17th, Sandy Berger, President Bill Clinton’s National Security Adviser, voluntarily gave up his law license and with it the right to practice law. That is a stunning move for an accomplished lawyer, one of the