—Not gonna happen today, sadly.  The little fellow, as it happens, is down in Texas to attend the funeral of a cousin, who rumor has it polished off eight bottles of Pink Grapefruit-flavored Mad Dog 20/20 before wandering out onto SH 114 outside Idalou (around Route 82) looking for a pickup truck to throw himself under. And he found one, too—an old Ford Ranger crammed with beer-sodden Lubbock jocks on

Actress and Honorary Chair for PETA, Pamela Anderson—yes, she of “Baywatch” and a moutful of Tommy Lee fame—has penned (in eyeliner, presumably) an op-ed for today’s WSJ that decries the use of real chimpanzees by Hollywood. Let’s have a look, shall we?  Writes Pamela: King Kong is my hero. He’s big, muscular, sensitive, a terrific actor—and he’s not real. The use of computer-generated imagery has really taken off in Hollywood.

From the National Journal’s Hotline, an transcript of yesterday’s White House press gaggle with Scott McClellan, where a reporter (Jim VandeHei?) — likely an acolyte of Juan Cole — registered a complaint about the White House’s choice to have their TVs tuned to FOX News. To be fair, unlike Professor Cole (who has called for FOXNew to be shut down on the grounds that it is “polluting” the information stream)

Jones: “Goddamn but do I miss Lisa Ling.  And bacon cheeseburgers, with a double side of onion rings.”

Nail Yale’s Clint Taylor lets loose on Juan Cole, and in the process, I suspect, speaks for a number of conservatives who have come out against Yale’s desire to hire Professor Cole (myself included): Yale’s free to hire Prof. Cole, and I’m free to complain about it.  As I said in the entry below, I’m not qualified to evaluate his Middle Eastern Studies credentials.  I am, however, qualified to evaluate

Allah, at Hot Air: Another American university tackles free speech, and everyone involved embarrasses themselves — except the conservatives. A parable for our times. World Net Daily broke the news yesterday that a far-left student newspaper at the University of Oregon — called “The Insurgent” appropriately enough — decided to publish 12 deliberately offensive cartoons of Jesus in their March issue. Why? Because the Oregon Commentator, a conservative student newspaper

Even as National Democrats are making noises about instituting impeachment proceedings against President Bush (and perhaps even VP Cheney), and more former intel personnel spin their CYA stories for a (thus far) compliant and helpful media (on “60 Minutes,” for instance, former CIA official Tyler Drumheller claimed the Bushies cherrypicked intel to take us to war—which doesn’t seem to jibe with the investigative finding that the Bushies did NOT apply