Here is the thread where you wish McGehee Happy Birthday.

American Eric Volz, falsely convicted of the murder of his ex-girlfriend by Sandanista-sympathizing Judge Ivette Toruno Blanco, despite eyewitness evidence by 10 people, and cell phone records, that placed him 2 hours away at the time of the murder, and despite the prosecution’s witness on DNA evidence saying that none of it could be attached to the accused. On February 16, members of the US Embassy were barred from entering

I read this headline, and I thought, “Ohmigod!  With a baby?  In a car?  To what is this world in the process of coming?” Fortunately, I’d just misread it!

if you ask me. A Catholic weekly newspaper in Malaysia has been told to drop the use of the word “Allah” in its Malay language section if it wants to renew its publishing permit, a senior government official said Friday. The Herald, the organ of Malaysia’s Catholic Church, has translated the word God as “Allah” but it is erroneous because Allah refers to the Muslim God, said Che Din Yusoff,

“The reason she ought to be president, over and above her vision and her plans is that she has proven in every position she has ever had in life, whether it was in elected office or not, that she is a world-class genius in making positive changes in other people’s lives,” he said. “If she’d-a put out,” he continued, “I’d never have had to pleasure so many ugly bimbos.” UPDATE:

At Popular Mechanics, The Ethanol Fallacy: Op-Ed The idea is so appealing: We can reduce our dependence on oil—stop sending U.S. dollars to corrupt petro-dictators, stop spewing megatons of carbon into the atmos¬phere—by replacing it with clean, home-grown, all-American corn. It sounds too good to be true. Sadly, it is. Now, I like Iowa and Iowans (not the least, IowaHawk), but do you suppose any of the candidates would speak

Dr Rowan Williams has claimed there was little evidence that the Magi even existed and there was certainly nothing to prove there were three of them or that they were kings.   Dr Williams argued that the traditional Christmas story was nothing but a ‘legend’   He said the only reference to the wise men from the East was in Matthew’s gospel and the details were very vague. Dr Williams said: “Matthew’s gospel

Twin Peaks Gold Edition!

Here, I’ve been applying the occasional stiff-arm in passing, and there’s been a site devoted to mocking the philauty of The Caric.  Gosh, I feel ignorant.

In “The Big Picture(s),” I noted the issues raised by establishment media’s “hotel journalism,” as well as the media’s less-than-subtle hostility to Pres. Bush’s decision to “surge” US troops in hopes of bringing down escalating sectarian violence in Iraq.  Yesterday, I posted an update on the latter topic, based on the latest study from the Project for Excellence in Journalism. In the update, I raised an eyebrow over the fact that “(n)ow there is