Roy at Alicublog has this to say about PW: As Jeff Goldstein is apparently deep into one of those frequent cataleptic trances from which he only emerges to cadge spare change, the Protein Wisdom second stringers try their hand at semioticking. Dan Collins: Frank Rich: Suicide Is Not Painless Well, at least the Times are speaking to something they know. Of course, such a thing could never have happened [Vince

I hope this Catherine Gund doesn’t have custody: Sadie has a daddy and two mommies – and her adoptive mother is suing the child’s biological parents because the unusual family unit was anonymously featured last year in The New York Times Magazine. Filmmaker Catherine Gund says in court papers that her former lover, poet Melanie Hope, and the gay man who fathered Gund and Hope’s daughter violated a 1996 agreement

Whether it’s the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, deadly news out of Pakistan and Myanmar or Friday’s stock market tumble, moviegoers seem disinterested in more bad news at theaters with films about child-kidnapping, torture, widowhood and heroin addiction. (h/t Hot Air) Bernie Sanders’s My Space page. HoDe and Willie Nelson are among his friends. Max McGee falls down sober, dies. Max McGee, the free-spirited Green Bay Packers receiver who became

ABC, simple as Do Re Mi: While she is winning wide support in nationwide samples among Democrats in the race for their party’s presidential nomination, half of likely voters nationwide said they would never vote for New York Sen. Hillary Clinton, a new Zogby Interactive poll shows. Sure, Zogby polls are always a bit suspect.  But that result has been consistent all year long, and not just from Zogby.   She has the highest

Roger Simon on the “looming” Hollywood writers strike: But that doesn’t stop me from observing the situation, which seems more dire than I can remember, even than those several times we writers actually went out on strike and paraded around the studios with picket signs, producer friends allegedly sending their assistants out to ply us with copious lattes (that never happened to me). This time there is a genuine atmosphere

Last night before the big screen behind the Eiffel Tower, tens of thousands of English rugby fans died a slow, drunken death as France South Africa beat England 15 to 6 Read the rest. In defense of Dr. Watson: There is a deeper issue here. Society should not base its morality on a denial of facts. Word. Belated congratulations to Andrew & partner. The insane vulgarity of wretched humanity: The

Our friend Chuck blows up at another blogger, threatens to take out a hit. Probably TMI, but . . . Free Speech has the details, in case you’re interested in the peculiar pathology. (h/t Darleen) Others blogging: BitsBlog, Cold Fury

Lefty hero beans Abercrombie salesgirl with brick, wins friends, influences people, sticks it to The Man. Breitbart again. I mean, I like Pajamas Media, but I just don’t see how they’re going to match the visuals. Root cause creates troublesome situation. (h/t Reynolds)

From LGF: Interviewer: You were supposed to visit the site of the Twin Towers, but this aroused controversy and many objections in their media. What do you think about this? Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: As you know, by spreading lies and by portraying me… For example, they show my picture next to a picture of Bin Laden, or next to tanks and cannons firing and killing people. This is psychological warfare. 9/11

Following Darleen’s post from yesterday: The young teacher hung his head, avoiding eye contact. Yes, he had touched a fifth-grader’s breast during recess. “I guess it was just lust of the flesh,” he told his boss. That got Gary C. Lindsey fired from his first teaching job in Oelwein, Iowa. But it didn’t end his career. He taught for decades in Illinois and Iowa, fending off at least a half-dozen