It’s only fair that we turn that around, I think. “Sure, laugh. But Art Garfunkle could have beaten Paul Simon like a tiny Jew drum”

Actually, I’m being serious. Because once we get to the point where we’re all either fined for speech, or else asked to give up our jobs because somebody somewhere might have taken something we said and grafted onto it their own intended meaning (either out of a sense of hurt, or — more probably — out of the kind of perverse opportunism an atmosphere of “acceptable speech” inevitably creates) in

Disgruntled Congressional Staffer: “I saw him eat a baby!” Lamarckians at the NYT: Maybe it will grow legs this time?

I’m particularly interested in Courtney (or is it Courtenay?), Comox Valley BC, round about 115 5th Street. Guy who teaches some kind of martial art there wants to smack me around a little. I think he might be part of the Cobra Kai. — Which would mean I need to find me a little Okinawan man who wants his fence painted and his cars waxed, and is willing to pay

The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima is sure to give the nutroots the vapors with this one: When FBI investigators probing New York prostitution rings, Boston organized crime or potential terrorist plots anywhere want access to a suspect’s telephone contacts, technicians at a telecommunications carrier served with a government order can, with the click of a mouse, instantly transfer key data along a computer circuit to an FBI technology office in

I’ve been snapping up pets over at Facebook today.  I think some of them have potential:

testifies today, so naturally it’s time for pre-emptive declarations of failure. Inconveniently, events aren’t co-operating.

Reported, strangely enough, by the New York Times from an even stranger dateline — Paris, France: After the Paris police smashed a cell suspected of sending insurgents to Iraq early in 2005, French authorities predicted a new and dangerous threat: young Muslims lured to the Iraqi battlefields who would return, radicalized, to use their newfound battlefield skills in terrorist acts inside France. *** Now, as members of the cell are

Allahpundit did his usual bang-up job exposing director Spike Lee’s attacks on the Clintons and their black supporters as “merely an unusually grotesque example of a standard form of leftist identity-politics demagoguery.”  However, I would take issue with the word “merely.” As Protein Wisdom’s esteemed host Jeff Goldstein has argued: [T]he social construction argument for race — based as it is on dubious claims to history, memory, and heritage that collapse