Stop, please. Stop. Seriously. Stop. **** In other news… Nothing is better when you’re at home sick taking care of little boy than receiving encouraging email from well wishers. Take, for instance, this one, from “Toulouse Latrec” (cheneysux666@yahoo.com), subject line, “Paging Mr Piddle Pants”: Hey Jeffy, I need your help, when you get a chance to break away from being a racist, sexist, homophobe, of course. I’m sure that’s an

in Iraq: The question of what to do in Iraq today must be separated from the decision to topple Saddam Hussein four and a half years ago. That decision is a matter for historians. By any normal ethical standard, the coalition’s current project in Iraq is a just one. Britain, America and Iraq’s other allies are there as the guests of an elected government given a huge mandate by Iraqi

“If you need any more proof that John Edwards is shaping the race for the Democratic nomination, you don’t need to look any further than Senator Obama, who has followed Edwards’s lead on healthcare, poverty and, today, eliminating nuclear weapons,” Murray said in an e-mail to The Hill. “Next thing you know, he’ll be rooting for the Tar Heels.” I think they ought to search Obama’s campaign offices!  Possession of

The back and forth on the Petraeus advertisement and, now, over Mr. Limbaugh’s remarks, illustrates how both parties are turning miscues into fodder in the run up to the 2008 elections, particularly in the absence of serious legislative accomplishment when it comes to the war.

It’s almost as much a drag to have to explain a gnomic conceit as it is a joke, but Jeff and SEK were there.  I placed it under ineffective erasure because the simple fact that referencing it as verboten highlights it, as is evident from the comments.  As I mentioned, my issue isn’t with Gleen’s homosexuality, but his integrity and intelligence.  Once he acknowledged the hailing, “he,” as a constructed

h/t Ace

From Stanley Kurtz: Today, on the front page of The Washington Post, we see the third in a three-part series on roadside bombs in Iraq. The stories in this series have been centered on the top half of the page and highlighted in red (a device I don’t recall seeing before). Next to that is a huge headline about allegations of killings In Iraq by Blackwater. Below that is a

Came out on DVD about a week ago, and as I seldom go to a theater unless my kids want to see something, I just saw it last night.  It’s very sweet, a comedy in the technical sense of the term, and features some simply brilliant acting.  Recommended.

Spent all yesterday in bed. Stop. Haven’t eaten but a slice of toast in 20 hours. Stop. Out of tea. Stop. Wife is out of the country on business for next week. Stop. Forced to care for little boy while unable to sit up straight, walk, or eat. Stop. And cleaning shit diapers while you have the stomach flu? I don’t recommend that as part of a course of treatment.

It sounds like science fiction but it’s true: A killer amoeba living in lakes enters the body through the nose and attacks the brain where it feeds until you die.Even though encounters with the microscopic bug are extraordinarily rare, it’s killed six boys and young men this year. The spike in cases has health officials concerned, and they are predicting more cases in the future.”This is definitely something we need