A blogger whom I don’t know named Ben Buckman quotes Sully this way: If parents tore the skin off their infants in any other part of the body, they’d be arrested for abuse. The great unmentionable, of course, is that religion, not medicine, is behind this practice – Judaism and Islam, to be precise. Many secular men, in other words, bear the scars of someone else’s religion on their own

What do you get when you fill an anthropomorphic coffin with vinegar and water?

Bill Roggio has the latest on the coalition initiatives in Iraq, and according to Michael Yon, who emailed Reynolds, things are going very well. But what I’d like to consider is the economics of the situation. As we know, part of bin-Laden’s plot was to cause the collapse of the US economy. It is true that the war has been costly, but fortunately this has been largely offset by economic

Cameron Diaz has committed a fashionista faux pas in Peru: While explor[ing] the Inca city of Machu Picchu* high in Peru’s Andes, Diaz wore over her shoulder an olive green messenger bag emblazoned with a red star and the words “Serve the People” printed in Chinese on the flap, perhaps Chinese Communist leader Mao’s most famous political slogan. While the bags are marketed as trendy fashion accessories in some world

There are a few bloggers who I used to read regularly who kind of disappeared or changed their format until relatively recently. They are Michele and Tanya. Michele gave me my first taste of blogging for an audience beyond the small circle of people who knew me on a site I maintained on the University computer system while I was still in grad school. She put out an open invitation