Ed Morrissey whales on them hammer and tongs this morning–just like a cetaceous smithy–and God knows they deserve it. From Fox News: The United Nations agency that administers a school in Gaza where dozens of civilians were killed by Israeli mortar fire last week has admitted to employing terrorists to work at its Palestinian schools in the past, has no system in place to keep members of Hamas or Islamic

I took a drink. In the new issue of Nature, the neuroscientist Larry Young offers a grand unified theory of love. After analyzing the brain chemistry of mammalian pair bonding — and, not incidentally, explaining humans’ peculiar erotic fascination with breasts — Dr. Young predicts that it won’t be long before an unscrupulous suitor could sneak a pharmaceutical love potion into your drink. That’s the bad news. The not-so-bad news

I’m posting this to follow up on what Clarice wrote about why Bush ought to pardon Libby. Daniel Henninger in the WSJ: I think there is a good legal argument for the Libby pardon, but others have done that well, making a credible case that he in fact is innocent. But there is another dimension to this that deserves consideration. Washington is on thin ice. The American people could not

And that their sacrifice meant nothing? Gateway Pundit goes behind the numbers to analyze the left’s fury at Cheney for stating that the WOT has been worth it. Related: Obamamobile to run on unicorn farts “I think he’s a good president,” I told her, which seemed to dumbfound her, and wreck my chances of appearing on her show. In the avalanche of abuse and ridicule that we are witnessing in

At Big Hollywood? As a professional filmmaker, I have to say I was as stunned as you when I read that the film industry suffered through another lackluster box office year in 2008. The chief reasons for this appear to be the economy and Internet pirates, or possibly that Raisinette ebola scare. Whatever the cause it’s safe to say that it had nothing to do with the screen product, because

A German man who met around 150 women in Internet chat rooms went on trial in Germany on Wednesday charged with murdering two of them. Dubbed “Germany’s First Internet Murderer” in the press, he has confessed to the killings, but denies he’s a serial killer. He only killed a little over one in a hundred of them. Loser. “I felt remote controlled. I can only say that if Regina hadn’t

Trapped in a mine that had caved in And everyone knows the only ones left Were Joe and me and Tim When they broke through to pull us free The only ones left to tell the tale Were Joe and me Timothy, Timothy, where on earth did you go? Timothy, Timothy, God why don’t I know? Hungry as hell no food to eat And Joe said that he would sell

Via Hot Air Headlines, Trig Truther Andrew Sullivan officially America’s fave blogger.

To my Muslim brethren: soak them in milk overnight, and they will be much tenderer, Inshallah!

If you have any time today, please write your representatives and let them know how effed up you think this is. Or maybe Timothy Geithner can get this straightened out? Crittenden on the uses of torture. DrewM. blenches with sorrow. From Jammie Wearing Fool comes news of Stan Lee’s Thom Creed, the “first gay superhero.” Holy hidden identity, Batman! (The “h” in Thom is a clue, wot?). I wonder whether