First, I’m fond of dicentra, so despite my crankiness, leave that alone, please. I guarantee we will work it out. Second, Jeff is trying to discover the proprietor of No More Mister Nice Blog, who wishes him a painful malignancy. Since he’s coming east, let’s see whether we can’t arrange a tete a tete, so they can work things out mano a mano. Any help appreciated.

I once had a gull, Or should I say He once had me? TBogg (a somewhat stupid blogger) thinks it’s “cute” that I go beyond intentionalism in my view of the coverage of the Adkisson slayings in Tennessee. What’s interesting about his interpretation, from my point of view, is that he seems to believe that there was a text in the argument that is authoritative. Just having gotten back from

The Rev. James Meeks, in a protest over inequalities in school funding, is not only asking Chicago public school students to skip their first day of classes, but also is asking parents to attempt to enroll their children in wealthier, white, suburban schools. Rev. Meeks has targeted suburban New Trier High School, one of the inspirations for the movie The Breakfast Club, whose alumni include everyone from Donald Rumsfeld and Rahm Emanuel

You know… the “Puzzle Palace.” The “Head Shed.”  Swimmin’ pools… movie stars. Speaking of which, when the Major joined Jeff G and I for lunch, I had no idea he was a fan of one of my Dad’s favorite movies.  If you have seen it, you know the exact sound I am making in my head at the moment. (h/t Instapundit.)

BREAKING, via McClatchy: Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Republican in the U.S. Senate and one of the chamber’s most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday in Washington for failing to disclose more than $250,000 worth of gifts that he received from businessmen who were seeking his help on federal issues and projects. That he is charged with false statements, as opposed to more substantive corruption charges, is a bit disappointing.  Indeed,

Allahpundit finds the latest effort from Media Matters to convince people that the establishment media is biased in favor of John McCain over Barack Obama to be “[s]o unspeakably lame is this that I can’t even work up a good head of schadenfreude over it.” But let us speak of it for a moment.  Allah does not mention it, but folks on the Left are citing the latest content analysis

The meteoric rise of Barack Obama will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed.  And it has people trying to better understand The Chicago Way. Courtesy of the local CBS affiliate: Retired “The Price is Right” game show host and animal activist Bob Barker is scheduled to testify Tuesday morning at City Hall in favor of legislation which would require all Chicago dog and

The Washington Post’s Richard Cohen issued an obvious challenge: “Just tell me one thing Barack Obama has done that you admire,” I asked a prominent Democrat. He paused and then said that he admired Obama’s speech to the Democratic convention in 2004. I agreed. It was a hell of a speech, but it was just a speech. However, Cohen then spends almost all of his column on various shifts in