Watching John Murtha stammer and hedge when confronted directly about having preemptively (and, it so happens, erroneously) convicted the Haditha Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood”: absolutely friggin’ priceless. **** update: Murtha’s heartache continues. From Reuters: The U.S. Marines have dismissed charges against an officer accused of failing to report accurately the U.S. killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005. Capt. Lucas McConnell was granted immunity
September 18, 2007
September 18, 2007
My twenty-first brief conversation with the Ghost of John Merrick
Merrick: “I AM NOT AN ANIMAL!” Me:: “You know, many nutritionists these days are touting string cheese as a really healthy snack food. Something about the calcium and protein content. Worth looking into, I think.” Merrick: ” — I AM A HUMAN BEING!” Me: “Yeah, yeah, I know it. But were you a tube of string cheese, the likelihood that some superhot aerobics instructor would take you into her mouth
September 18, 2007
Front line dispatches
From Michael Yon and Bill Ardolino. Plenty of photographs of the strange brown Other — including some of their young, caught unawares in the wilds — for those of you who’ve let your subscriptions to National Geographic lapse. Such a strange people! And to think, we’ve given them fire! Oh, the arrogance! Oh, the hope! To borrow from Eliot — do we dare? And, do we dare?
September 18, 2007
Congrats!
To libertarian Denver Post columnist David Harsanyi, whose book, Nanny State, is out today. I had an opportunity to read the manuscript in its embryonic form and was both fascinated and appalled by the lengths to which nanny statists will go to micromanage the behaviors of supposedly free peoples. For those of you interested in exploring nannystate excesses, I highly recommend it. It’s like reading Reason without having to sift
September 18, 2007
I can't be certain…
…but I think this is what Maha and her ilk are inadvertently getting behind when they claim themselves to be “intolerant of intolerance.” Though Maha and other progressive crusaders bent on ridding the world of the scourge of “giving offense” — being the civilized sort — would likely choose a pen rather than a sword, and would of course happily donate a quarter of any “bounty” they collected to, say,
September 18, 2007
"Ten 'most polluted places' named"
And surprisingly, not one of them is Michael Moore’s shitter. From the BBC: A list of the world’s most polluted places has been published by a US-based independent environmental group. The Blacksmith Institute’s top 10 towns and cities included sites in ex-Soviet republics, Russia, China and India. Peru and Zambia were also listed. The report said an estimated 12 million people were affected by the severe pollution, which was mainly