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Bob Owens emails that the surge strategy is now officially underway in Iraq—even as opportunistic Senators weigh whether or not to undercut any actual attempt to stabilize the security situation by voting for a non-binding resolution meant to express, ostentatiously, their unhappiness with a war they seem to think can’t be won…because of our inability to stabilize the security situation. For more on the surge, see Mudville Gazette, or listen

…provided by “embed” “Bill Ardolino,” who will do anything, it seems, to prop up our imperialist war machine, including the penning of hamhanded “essays” (complete with “pictures”) clearly intended to rehabilitate and “humanize” Iraqis (who we all know by now are simply Mesopotamian barbarians for whom it is fashionable these days to show our liberal “concern” by suggesting we let them tear at each other’s throats like the wild curs

Nostradumbass. Oxfraud. More Stockholm Syndrome. Thank God someone else has picked up on this. Jackie Danicki’s been mugged, after being assaulted on the tube last month.  h/t Jim Treacher, who still blogs here, just in case one of us might like to, y’know, visit him some time. I do believe Danicki’s account in both instances, even though the handbag in question was Prada, but that is likely only because she’s

“Two cars parked on the overpass, Rocks hit the water like broken glass I should have known right then it was too good to last God, its such a drag when youre livin in the past” A life I never lived, a past I never had, yet I miss it. Answer ghosted here->“Even the Losers,” Tom Petty

Da Bears woulda won it if you hadn’t have taken on PW, Christopher Ross of Waking teh Giant! God hates teh Rex Grossman!!11! You are a traitor and an ally to the Flatlanders!  I am running out to Jiffy Mart to buy more rock salt for the wounds!

The head coaches?  BOTH BLACK! *

Okay.  I was wrong.  How can I have been so stupid? I heartily apologize to all of those people whom I’ve disparaged.  I should have known. Wuzzadem has the proof. * Geez, that’s the last time Wuzzie’s ever going to take an idea from me.

The Impolitic has the following to say about Amanda’s treatment by right-wing blogs: And that’s the real point. Amanda is not running for president, Edwards is, and what she says, or has said, on her personal site has nothing to do with his candidacy. He hired her to blog about his platform, not counsel him on policy positions. If the wrongnuts want to contribute to the debate, they should address

From Jules Crittenden: The war with extremist Islam has just entered a new phase. Times of London: Al Qaeda leadership in Pakistan and Iraq have issued orders for British cells to conduct a “low-tech” campaign of abductions and beheadings. Islamic terror cells in Britain have been instructed to carry out a series of kidnappings and beheadings of the kind allegedly planned by the nine terrorist suspects arrested in Birmingham last