At Opinion Journal this morning, Andrew Stark provides the perfect companion reading for George Tenet’s Center of the Storm, an article on apologies and non-apologies. Meanwhile, you can sate your taste for red meat by checking out this article, posted at Bloody Scott.

German Pope Ratzinger has come to Brasil, and Gleen has nothing to say about the phenomenon, preferring to engage in hermeneutics from a safe distance performed on sources as removed as possible from what they treat. The LAT does, though: SAO PAULO, BRAZIL — The pop-idol priest strides to the altar like the star that he is, a rock band pounding away to his right, cameras flashing to his left

Shred away: Posted May 9, 2007 AAN Presents First Annual Molly Ivins Award to Keith Olbermann Source: AAN Contact: Roxanne Cooper Association of Alternative Newsweeklies 202-289-8484 rcooper (at) aan.org New York, NY, May 9, 2007—The Association of Alternative Newsweeklies (AAN) announced today that MSNBC news anchor Keith Olbermann is the winner of its first annual Molly Ivins Award. Olbermann’s achievement will be recognized in a ceremony to be held this

Q: What do you get when you cross Ayman al-Zawahiri and, say, Harry Belafonte? A: Pick em!* The progressives will shriek and moan that vile neocons dare draw such equivalences, but when the only difference between the rhetoric of a terror leader and that of grievance-mongering progressives is the absence of the charge to “tally me banana,” it’s time to reach deep into that bag of rationalizations to convince Americans

Iran?  I’m against it.  You?*

I guess I could find time to post today, even though my kid has a high temperature and wants me to lie down with him and watch a few Disney shows.  But, well, I certainly don’t have to—and it ain’t like watching “Johnny and the Sprites” will necessarily make me gay. Right?

“The federal hate crime bill is unnecessary, unjust, and unconstitutional,” argues Reason‘s Jacob Sullum: “Hate crimes have no place in America,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi boldly declared last week, “no place in a nation where we pledge every morning ‘with liberty and justice for all.’” Pelosi was urging her colleagues to approve a bill aimed at violence motivated by hostility toward members of certain designated groups. According to Pelosi, then,

Seems my morning paper was never delivered today. Or else it was delivered, then stolen right from my driveway. Either way, this has Dianne Feinstein’s name written all over it. Developing…

Dear Sirs: I am writing to let you know that I’d be happy to manage the Rockies for 10% of whatever it is you happen to be paying Clint Hurdle.  In fact, allow me to sweeten the offer:  if, in the unlikely event I don’t win more games than Hurdle has won in any one of his seasons as manager, I will refund fully half of my already reduced salary,

oatmeal:  “For the last time, they’re not ‘seeds of Christ.’ They’re frickin’ raisins.  Jesus—I think that Quaker getup is really starting to mess with your head, Friend.”