The European Commission against Racism and Intolerance (ECRI) released a report on Denmark that—astoundingly—suggests that support for free speech in that country is proof of Danish of “intolerance”. Allah excerpts this portion of the report concerning Danish Muslims, from the section headed “vulnerable groups”: In September 2005, with the stated intention of verifying whether freedom of speech is respected in Denmark, a widely-read Danish newspaper called on cartoonists to send

Unsurprisingly, the testing grounds for nannystatist encroachment on speech at the municipal level (the feds, predicatably, have set the tone by caving to aggrieved identity groups and legislating them into a kind of de facto “endangered species” status) is Boulder, CO—about 10 minutes west of my future home.  Which should make for some interesting times.  From David Harsanyi, The Denver Post: There’s a famous joke that goes like this: What’s

“So the ‘council’ has spoken, and I’m to be bounced from my truthiness podium for what these Eurocentric pricks are calling ‘deliberate’ acts of academic misconduct.  How ironic, huh?  For years we’ve been arguing that ‘race’ is a social construct, but then when somebody like me puts those theories to the real world test, the university freakin’ caves, man.  Like the cowardly white racist bigots that they’ve always secretly been.”*

…To Mark Curtin for the Operation Petticoat DVD.  There are still several Cary Grant movies I’ve not seen, and this is one of them.  Thanks also to Patrick Yella for the two Bogie flicks, Dead Reckoning and They Drive By Night.  For some reason, I just enjoy watching b&w films at night, and I’d been running out.  Bogart is one of my favorite actors, and I’m also a fan of

Billy Joel: “A bottle of red, a bottle of white.  Whatever kind of mood you’re in tonight –” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “– You know, Chuck Norris never touches the stuff—except for maybe a six-pack of Lonestar beer a week.  Which is perhaps why he still doesn’t look a day over 40 and can kick some serious ass, while you…well, you keep running into trees with your car. “Not that

Judicial Watch filed the FOIA request that led to the tape’s release—delayed until now, according to the Pentagon, because of the Moussaoui trial. But we know better.  More likely, this is an effort to distract us from the indictment of Karl Rove, which, though it hasn’t yet happened, will be coming soon enough. Anyway, as Allah wryly notes, this could be a “bad day for conspiracy theorists of all stripes.”

Black Hawk Down author Mark Bowden’s new Atlantic Monthly piece about the rescue attempt of the Iranian hostages under CinC Jimmy Carter contains this interesting bit, which may or may not provide some insight into the mindset of some in the “reality-based” community who still defend the disastrous Carter presidency: Another presidential directive concerned the use of nonlethal riot-control agents. Given that the shah’s occasionally violent riot control during the

Conservatives who are for tighter control of the borders?  Well, Reason’s Jesse Walker doesn’t want to come right out and say it, but that doesn’t mean he is averse to noting, rather ominously, that the “parallels are striking” between today’s border control advocates (folks I might call, “people who are in support of current immigration laws, and who are upset that those laws are rarely enforced”) and those persons for

I’m not able to hold the front page forever, you know.  Not to mention that I have some housework to do. I like to vaccuum while dosing on Klonopin.  I find it to be soothing. * **** update:  Heh.  (h/t Peligro Bastardo)