…unless, that is, you happen to be a Taliban or al Qaeda fighter. In which case, you might want to ease off the roughage here soon. After all, not even a terrorist would want to show up for his date with 72 raisins having soiled his jihadi tighty-whities because some infidel watching a plasma screen in a Florida conference room pushed a button and sent a Hellfire missile his way

From USA Today: Former security guard Richard Jewell, who was erroneously linked to the 1996 Olympic bombing, died Wednesday, the Georgia Bureau of Investigation said. Jewell, 44, was found dead in his west Georgia home, GBI spokesman John Bankhead said. “There’s no suspicion whatsoever of any type of foul play. He had been at home sick since the end of February with kidney problems,” said Meriwether County Coroner Johnny Worley.

All right. Y’all have had your fun. Now please, leave me be until the sentencing date. I’m dog tired. So to speak.

In the midst of the still-lingering controversy over the truthiness of The New Republic’s “Baghdad Diarist,” more than a few people suggested that war supporters, unable to discredit the real bad news coming from Iraq, targeted the Scott Thomas Beauchamp stories as a weak link.  I cannot speak for everyone who supports the mission in Iraq, but I would submit that Beauchamp’s apparent fables and embellishments are not a “weak

When he says he’s not gay?  No.  He’s bisexual, bitches!  More though, there’s an interesting case that demonstrates the zeal that arresting officer Sgt. Karsnia displays in punishing malefactors at his airport.  Fortunately, the guy he was arresting in this case was a Rethuglican Senator, or liberals might be up in arms about his role in this sad story (and squalid). LMC has related thoughts.