Me: “So, tell me about your relationship with Mike. Did he ever, y’know –” Hush Puppies: “– If it’s all the same to you, I’d rather not talk about that asshole right now. Okay?”*

Tell me if any of this sounds vaguely familiar to you. From Theodore Dalrymple, writing in the City Journal: In an effort to ensure that no Muslim doctors ever again try to bomb Glasgow Airport, bureaucrats at Glasgow’s public hospitals have decreed that henceforth no staff may eat lunch at their desks or in their offices during the holy month of Ramadan, so that fasting Muslims shall not be offended

Dan did a fine job yesterday pointing up the almost surreal blinkeredness of David Neiwert’s bizarre attempt to play Dr Phil to the blogosphere’s troubled hypermasculinist “conservatives” — which Neiwert does in a strained argument for redefining masculinity that echoes not only Jim Henley’s musings on the topic, but also the much longer disquisition from Dr Ric Caric, whose essay on the “weenie man” I linked and (obliquely) commented on

Joe Lieberman, epitomizing the anti-masculine qualities of an arch conservative in today’s WSJ Opinion Journal: […]Now the Damascus airport is the point of entry into Iraq for most of the suicide bombers who are killing innocent Iraqi citizens and American soldiers, and trying to break America’s will in this war. It is therefore time to demand that the Syrian regime stop playing travel agent for al Qaeda in Iraq. When