Gina Elise is selling a nostalgic pin-up calendar to raise funds for hospitalized Veterans, and as gifts to ill and injured Veterans, as well as our deployed troops to help boost morale.  I am not a vet, but Ms. Elise seems very boosty.  Like Dan wouldn’t have written the exact same thing. (h/t Jeff G.)

Security officials in Lebanon said Imad Mugniyah, 45, a senior Hezbollah military commander, was killed by a car bomb on Tuesday night in Damascus, Syria. Mr. Mugniyah had been accused in a series of bombings, hijackings and kidnappings during the 1980s and 1990s, including the 1983 bombing of a Marine barracks in Beirut that killed 241 American service members. Mr. Mugniyah’s father, Fayez, left, and grandfather held each other during

Kelly Trueman complains that we Americans have a bias against eating bugs — and roadkill. Just don’t mention it to Mike Huckabee.

Shit you is what I do not at this present moment do: A new study supports the idea that super models flock together while individuals lacking the perfect face and body also stick together. “Beautiful people marry beautiful people and less beautiful people marry less beautiful people,” said Dan Ariely,* a professor of behavioral economics at MIT’s Program in Media Arts and Sciences and Sloan School of Management. That can’t

Guinness have a petition to make St. Patrick’s Day a national holiday. Even though I’m largely Irish by extraction, and love me some beer, I’m not very excited about the idea. Now, the day after Paddy’s . . . that would make sense.

At MyDD, Jerome Armstrong notes that the DNC may be operating with a double-standard in stripping Florida and Michigan of their delegates. The DNC Rules & Bylaws Committee imposed those sanctions on Florida and Michigan for moving up the dates of their primaries in violation of Rule 11.A. of the Delegate Selection Rules for the 2008 Democratic National Convention. Now people are noticing that the committee has not discussed — let alone

(with apologies to The Guess Who)  American Moonbat, get away from me-hee American Moonbat, mama let me be-hee Don’t be hanging around my door, Your campaign lit’rature makes me snore I got less frustrating things to do Than waste my time tryin’ to reason with you.

At RCP, Jay Cost considers the level of inaccuracy in this year’s primary polling and hypothesizes that it’s your fault: In a primary campaign, voters must choose among candidates who are all of the same party. Partisanship therefore does not enter into their decisions… *** …Consider that 48% of New Hampshire Democrats claimed to make their choice in the last week of the campaign. From a certain standpoint, that is

  HAL: By the way, do you mind if I ask you a personal question? Dave: No, not at all. HAL: Well, forgive me for being so inquisitive but during the past few weeks, I’ve wondered whether you might be having some second thoughts about the mission. Dave: How do you mean? HAL: Well, it’s rather difficult to define. Perhaps I’m just projecting my own concern about it. I know

Surf’s up on the Left after Sen. John McCain voted against a bill that would force the Central Intelligence Agency to adhere to limitations in the US Army Field Manual when interrogating terrorists.  The reaction of the misnamed ThinkProgress was typical: John McCain: He was against waterboarding before he was for it. Kevin Drum opines that Maverick has folded in the face of “a conservative base that’s righteously pissed off and