(h/t Ace)

By 2014, the New York Times has become a print-only newsletter for the elite and the elderly. Uh. Too late. Guess this thing’s 4 years old, though, so it would have been hard to anticipate how far the NYT’s fortunes would have dropped by now. If everybody’s special, nobody’s special, right? Anyone have the information on who funded this? The production values are very good. More: For $5,000, AuthorTree will

A great review of what appears to be an exciting book by possibly the best war reporter alive. I don’t know the publisher, Richard Vigilante Books, but please support them if you can, and make the big names wish it were theirs. And, if you haven’t seen it yet, don’t forget JD Johannes’s Outside the Wire, more than halfway to surpassing Redacted‘s box office gross. Dissident Frogman’s Obama campaign poster.

Washington Post Staff Writer Libby Copeland bemoans “poor Hillary” — or rather, that people say it of Hillary Clinton’s seemingly Quixotic quest for the White House: “Poor Hillary,” write the op-ed writers and the bloggers and the newspaper letter-writers. “Poor Hillary’s done,” writes a gleeful reader in Portsmouth, Va., on Mother’s Day. “The Billstone Around Poor Hillary’s Neck,” reads a New York Daily News headline yesterday. The talk show host

Greedy President Bush: President Bush‘s financial fortunes appear to have declined over the past seven years, with his family assets dropping as low as $6.5 million, according to disclosure forms released yesterday. Bush and his wife, Laura, were worth at least $9 million and as much as $24 million at the start of his term. The Bushes could still be worth as much as $20 million now, according to the

The Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (who knew) explains the sexual practices of the little brown peoples: Throughout Indonesia, a majority of women regularly engage in a number of practices to “clean,” “dry,” “tighten,” or “deodorize” their vaginas. These practices derive from longstanding traditions designed to achieve conformity with expectations about the appearance, function, and sexual performance of the vagina. These are rooted in a widespread

As much as I disdain this [insert rude epithet], I don’t think that the courts are the way to go.  You may feel otherwise: perhaps to make an example is worthwhile in such a notorious case? Sister Toldjah’s writing about it, too. (h/t memeorandum) Investigations: while Specter wants Congress to look into “Spygate,” Patterico drops a bombshell on the LA Times, and David Vitter was acquitted for having instrumentalized the (presumably) suicided

Ptooie.  Bemoaning the party’s problems, Peggy doesn’t provide much in the way of constructive advice:  What happens to the Republicans in 2008 will likely be dictated by what didn’t happen in 2005, and ’06, and ’07. The moment when the party could have broken, on principle, with the administration – over the thinking behind and the carrying out of the war, over immigration, spending and the size of government –

Via Reuters: Obese and overweight people require more fuel to transport them and the food they eat, and the problem will worsen as the population literally swells in size, a team at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine says. So obesity adds to global warming, which we know is responsible for pretty much all of the ills of society. And they didn’t factor in the air conditioning? The

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