This comes on the heels of earlier news that Libby’s appeal for a sentencing stay was denied, despite the 12 amicus briefs filed on his behalf. The court’s ruling was a single paragraph. For Bush, this gambit comes at the perfect time, though I’m not sure how helpful it will be for Republicans in the long term; the President’s decision to commute the sentence should take the spotlight off of

Well, to be fair, what he actually says is it’s doubtful Muslims were involved. But if they were (and that’s just a silly hypothetical, one that either 1) has no precedent in recent history, or 2) is far too easy and convenient given the many, many, many precedents) — well, clearly it was the British recognition of Rushdie’s literary prowess that is to blame, not the really quite predictable reaction

From the CBS/AP: A peacock that roamed into the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant was attacked by a man who villified the bird as a vampire, animal-control authorities said. The … bird was later euthanized, said Richard Gentles, a spokesman for the [New York] city’s center for Center for Animal Care and Control. […] he peacock, a male several years old, wandered into a Burger King parking lot in

…one of my favorites of which details the adventures of a secretive cult of swinging dwarfs trained in aikido (合気道) and the black arts of diabolism whose appetite for crime fighting is matched only by a voracious appetite for cocaine, amyl nitrate, and the ladies. Of course, I’m a hypermasculinist weenie boy, so my enjoyments are terribly predictable. Seriously. Some professor should write a column.

Let us not allow a few inconvenient facts get in the way of a perfectly good (and long-standing) leftist hypothesis about terrorism’s “root causes”. After all, such “evidence” only indexes the “fallacy of proof” that the (conservative) bourgeois ruling class has traditionally used to maintain the status quo — and to push a dubious and politically-tinged philosophical paradigm that insists, ludicrously, that rationality and objectivity should somehow retain privileged epistemological

“A victory for disfranchised Mississippi voters — and they happen to be white.” From John Fund, WSJ: Last week a federal district judge found direct evidence that the political machine in Noxubee County, Miss., had discriminated against voters with the intent to infringe their rights and that “these abuses have been racially motivated.” Among the abuses catalogued by Judge Tom Lee were the paying of notaries public to visit voters

Question: is it “normal” for a small boy to chase and try to catch birds? Because every child development manual I’ve consulted pointedly ignores the subject — except to note, peripherally, that should my son manage actually to catch the thing and, for example, bite its stupid bird head off before using the petrified beaktip to carve a swastika in his forehead and recruit a cult of libertine hippie chicks