U.S. and Iraqi troops have detained 16 people they say are “directly related to the attack” on May 12 in which three U.S. soldiers were apparently captured, a U.S. military official said. The three men disappeared after insurgents attacked a U.S. military observation post in the Mahmoudiya area, in a stretch known as the Triangle of Death. Four American soldiers and an Iraqi soldier were found dead at the scene

Hi-larious Ratheresque hijinx on the part of Larry Johnson, ex-CIA moron, discussed by Ace.  Come up with your own monicker for good ol’ lyin’ Larry, whose interesting career can be glimpsed here, and here, here (where the role in the Seixon affair of our own topsecretk9 is recounted), here, and just about everywhere.  Serial fuckwad?  Whatever. UPDATE: Ace also has this on Val Plame’s perjury (she didn’t get to swear

A few months ago I posted that I enjoyed drinking Jameson, both for its own virtues and as an alternative to single malt scotch when the old pocketbook was feeling pinched.  Naturally that started a thread on which booze people liked to drink, and some people suggested other varieties of Irish whiskey that I should sample.  I tried a few of them, and while I’ve put it off for a

Celebrated by the LA Times this Memorial Day Weekend: Bush was twice warned of Iraq challenges Holy shit!  You mean he was warned twice that it mightn’t be easy to bring security, democracy and prosperity to Iraq? These warnings were distributed to senior officials with daily access to President Bush and others at the very top of the administration, the report states. To officials?!  At the very top?!  Of the

Is this what the little guy has been up to, or is it the scaly bastard’s much more ambitious and upstanding cousin?  Or perhaps this is some sort of darker, more sinister von Braunian kind of escapade – sort of splitting the difference between the Saturn-V and the V-2.  (nb:  When told of the first V2 hitting London, Von Braun remarked “The rocket worked perfectly except for landing on the

Yes, lynx.  Not mere punniness (Robin Roberts), but voluminous egoism with hints of suckuppiness.  David Thompson on Oliver Kamm on freedom of speech.  Iowahawk debates Treacher regarding The View.  Ace on Joy Behar.  Instapundit doesn’t link to me.  Jawas urge calm.  Possibly the most irritatingly self-regarding voice on the intartubes reports on the former most irritatingly self-regarding voice on television–with the exception, natch, of Olbermann; maybe she’s just not my

Vinod Guptastein The company, infoUSA, one of the nation’s largest brokers of information on consumers, paid $146,866 to ferry the Clintons, Mr. Gupta[stein] and others to Acapulco and back, court records show. During the next four years, infoUSA paid Mr. Clinton more than $2 million for consulting services, and spent almost $900,000 to fly him around the world for his presidential foundation work and to fly Mrs. Clinton to campaign

On Thursday, O’Donnell hinted at her decision to leave on her blog, writing, “When painting there is a point you must step away from the canvas as the work is done. Anymore would take away.” h/t Althouse WARNING: Disturbing Image Below Fold

Imagine me with nukes, I do I think about it day and night, it’s only right To dream about the means you need, kafir to smite The weapon I’d treasure

First up, Ace has a post about a story treating the soaring demand in the UK for . . . elective genitoplasty, or as he puts it, ”designer vaginas”: Rising numbers of women are asking the NHS to provide cosmetic surgery on their genitals, doctors said on Friday. Writing in the British Medical Journal, they said the number of ”labial reductions” carried out in NHS hospitals had doubled to 800