Victor Davis Hanson, writing at the Corner: It is likely (a) that Ahmadinejad was one of the terrorists who took American hostages in 1979, and so helped to start the quarter-century rise of radical Islamic jihadism that blew up on September 11; and (b) that he wants to visit September 11 precisely for the purpose of boasting when back home “I am going there, because I can,” the subtext, if

Steve at Hog on Ice asks and answers. Question is, is he right? Because if so, I’ve, like, totally overspent on my credit cards…

1. I’m still feeling really lousy. Consequently, posts authored by yours truly will appear only during those moments of lucidity not otherwise occupied by half-awake trips to the john. 2. Such moments are likely to be infrequent. 3. You do the math.

Why did you bastards make me eat an entire jar of pickled peppers and send me $5, a condom, and a 6-pack of MGD?

JC: Sluts are the nicest people in the world. They’re people pleasers! (h/t Instapundit)

Something wicked this way came — and I’m afraid it settled in my left ear like a Tom Tancredo cross-border gordita invasion. Consequently, I’m feeling a bit under the weather — not to mention violated in a rather intimate way. — Though, let me be perfectly clear: what I experienced was not aural sex. In fact, such violations have everything to do with power and nothing to do with intimacy

Master Thompson, on the Hillary!Care scheme described here yesterday by Darleen: “What is it that makes liberals think the best way to help somebody is to punish them?” “I understand Hillary Clinton has just acknowledged that her new health care plan could require somebody to actually prove they’ve got insurance before they can get a job. You know, a job — the thing that would help you get health care.

In this case, the concept is “diversity.” And — surprise! — the protectors and saviors of such a laudable social imperative are those academics who, for good reason (we can’t, after all, have a chaotic combination of differences, can we?), enjoy their “diversity” tightly controlled, preferably by the very people who get to define what comes to count as “diversity,” for purposes of social policy, in the first place. Which

Watching John Murtha stammer and hedge when confronted directly about having preemptively (and, it so happens, erroneously) convicted the Haditha Marines of murdering Iraqi civilians “in cold blood”: absolutely friggin’ priceless. **** update: Murtha’s heartache continues. From Reuters: The U.S. Marines have dismissed charges against an officer accused of failing to report accurately the U.S. killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in Haditha in 2005. Capt. Lucas McConnell was granted immunity