RTO Trainer: Positive News from Iraq: Ignore this Post!!3! SarahW: Lolinated River C: Eternal Web Conundrums, 3 Serr8d: For Dan…  (Not Safe for Wife!) Also, go check out Christopher Taylor’s excellent blog for more lolly goodness. Definitely the graphics part of this package.

With apologies to Allahpundit for the “Friday Stupid” meme: The legend lives o­n from the Chippewa o­n down of the big lake they called Gitche Gumee. Saturday is the 32nd anniversary of the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald — 729 feet-long, 75 feet in breadth, 39 feet in depth, weighing 13,632 gross tons — an ore bulk carrier with a capacity of 25,000 tons. When it was launched o­n June

A huge offshore oil discovery could raise Brazil’s petroleum reserves by a whopping 40 percent and boost this country into the ranks of the world’s major exporters, officials said. Fausta correctly ascertains that this sucks for Chavez.

Vomity? The discussion went better than I expected. Some people demanded responses to specific and alleged violations of comity by various bloggers and commentators, but for the most part, we moved beyond rehashing old debates and focused on how to specifically improve communication. We talked about bright lines for bloggers on topics and attacks, where they exist (if they exist), and whether they exist as a broad agreement. One of

Pikers:  An emerging segment of highly engaged, tech-savvy, and vocal voters is poised to impact the outcome of the 2008 national elections, according to new research from Yahoo!, HCD Research, and Hall and Partners. The study, entitled “The Rise of Citizen 2.0: Radically Rethinking Democracy in the Digital Age,” examines the changing role of the Internet in shaping political activity and discourse. “Citizen 2.0” represents a slight majority (51 percent)

While I’ve been mucking about here, my friends over at Bloody Scott are either being swamped by extraordinary tides, or suffering from internal bleeding.  I feel terrible for having ignored them for so long.  Driving to work this morning I thought I’d better spend part of the weekend catching up, and so I shall. Hang in there, furriskey.  Get to high ground, Frank.

Why not just place hidden cameras in all of them, so that these he-said, she-said incidents can be submitted to arbitration by the High Court of Political Corrections? A professor’s alleged remarks in September set off an investigation at Brandeis University that has left some faculty members skeptical, students divided and the class itself monitored — for the time being — by an administrator. The incident recalls one this year

75 real people for 72 imaginary virgins?  Afghanistan’s deadliest suicide attack since the Taliban regime’s ouster killed 59 schoolchildren, while 96 other students were wounded in the blast, the Education Ministry spokesman said Friday. The attack in the northern province of Baghlan on Tuesday killed at least 75 people. The dead children were ages eight to 18, said Zahoor Afghan, an Education Ministry spokesman. Five teachers were also among those

David Thompson directs us to a new site dedicated to collocating all the genres of moonbattery in one centralized location.  It thus becomes a daily must-read for those who enjoy their looniness piping hot.  Darleen has some thoughts on this, as well. Very decent of him: Chad Releases Spaniards, Belgian News you can use: Fundamentals of Zombology (h/t Reynolds, who calls them prehistoric, though the article shows zombie-representing hierogyphics, neener-neener)

Liz Stephans with free t-shirts at Blog World Expo, courtesy of Instapundit. Look closely and you’ll see her famous handbag in the photo. The handbag that hangs from her shoulder. O, fortunate handbag!