How’s Larry Flynt doing?  From NPR’s glowing, non-biased encomium: The Rev. Jerry Falwell, a pioneer among televangelists who later became a leading voice in the national debate over Christian values, has died at the age of 73. Falwell was found unconscious Tuesday in his office at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Va. A fundamentalist preacher, Falwell burst onto the national scene in 1979, when he launched an organization he presumptuously called

If the car is a projection of the penis, would you prefer a man who drives a Toyota Landcruiser or, say, a Cooper Mini?  Theoretically speaking. And what do you make of Ed Begley, Jr’s incessant proselytizing for the whole electric package?  Is there such thing as “Tesla envy”? Sorry, but these kinds of things keeps me up at night.

From Radley Balko: In March 2004, two Florida teens—17-year-old male “J.G.W.” and 16-year-old female “A.H.,” as court records refer to them—photographed themselves engaged in sex acts.  Then they sent the pictures from A.H.’s computer to J.G.W.’s email account.  It’s not exactly clear how, but the photos soon wound up in the hands of the police.  Both teenagers were charged with producing child pornography. The sex acts themselves were not illegal;

Uh, that’s ice.  Balls of ice, in fact—falling from the sky like Rocky Mountain oysters from miniature, castrated ice bulls. Best go inside.  Now.  Because I certainly don’t want my tombstone to read, ”Here lies Jeff.  Beaten into a bloody pulp by tiny bull balls made from ice.” What would the dead neighbors think? Developing…

Originally, eons and eons ago, I was going to write a long post, or even a series, on deterrence, suasion, and the future of the GWOT.  But I didn’t. Evidently, it can all be conveyed much more succinctly: There’s a low-casualty model (the one that Edwards, et al. seem intent on marginalizing) and the high casualty model. Your choice. Let me know how all this works out for you folks.

I had to work Saturday, and was caught up in Mother’s Day stuff yesterday, so I didn’t get to check out the news much, and glancingly.  This story, though was at the top of the news all weekend.  I don’t understand what the importance of the child’s gender is to the story, though. CORRECTION: Some outlets are specifying that it’s a “Shrill Cow”

I say yes.  Yes, we can. Alternately, it may be that this chick is just bucking for Secretary General of the UN—in which case she’s already got the right masters using her like a ventriloquist’s dummy.  So maybe congratulations are in order.

Presidential wannabe John Edwards wants YOU to help “reclaim patriotism”.  And just how do you do that?  Well, the answer might seem counterintuitive to those of us in whichever of the two Americas it is where protesting the war on Memorial Day seems a bit loathsome and opportunistic.  In the other America, though, here’s how you can reclaim patriotism from people who actually support the troops rather than condescend to

from the weekend, that I didn’t particularly think appropriapic for Mother’s Day. First, from David Thompson, red-hot furniture sex. Second, PowerLine are threatening to liveblog the Miss Universe pageant, which seems to me like listening to the Westminster Dog Show on radio.  I.e., it would be nice to have actual visuals.  They seem to like Miss Brazil, and she has impressive assets.  Personally, I’ll be rooting for Miss Turks and

I am on haitus from blogging at my own site.  But I did have to share this.  I might have been a peacekeeper in the Balkans, and I might have fought in Afghanistan…but I couldn’t hang in this conflict.