First militant: Second militant: Third militant: Fourth militant: Fifth militant: Sixth militant: Seventh militant: “…uh, little help?”*
October 10, 2005
Overheard in an al Qaeda cave and tunnel complex on the border of Pakistan and Afghanistan
October 10, 2005
“Preparing for the Next Pandemic”
Dr Michael T. Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy, Associate Director of the Department of Homeland Security’s National Center for Food Protection and Defense, and Professor at the University of Minnesota’s School of Public Health, in the July/August Foreign Affairs: Dating back to antiquity, influenza pandemics have posed the greatest threat of a worldwide calamity caused by infectious disease. Over the past 300 years, ten
October 10, 2005
John Bolton’s straight-talking mustache, “Regis,” addresses the UN’s desire to take over guardianship of the World Wide Web
“Regis”: “‘Kofi,’ is it? Tell you what: I’ll see what I can do about getting you a free month of MSN Broadband. Fair enough? “Now shut up and go fetch me an icy cold Fanta Orange, would ya. Regis has needs.”* (h/t Darleen) **** update: Heh.
October 10, 2005
Sexing the Sharia
Via Allah, I’m pointed to this post by Jill at Feministe that begins with a discussion of the mistreatment of women in Saudi Arabia (using the story of Rania al-Baz as its jumping off point) but ends, disappointingly, as a reminder that, like Saudi Arabia, we here in the US are guilty of crimes against women—and that, in our readiness to demonize the Saudi Other, we shield ourselves from our
October 10, 2005
Wallowing in the Miers
People see Miers get the Supreme Court slot and it reminds them of when they played Little League baseball and didn’t get to pitch because the coach’s son got the slot even though he wasn’t as good. —Black Jack responds to Hugh Hewitt
October 9, 2005
Sunday riddle
Q: What do you get when you cross the UN and Kofi Annan with the internet?* A: A 404 page that loves the Cognac and hates the Zionists. Oh. And a pissed off Roger Simon, to boot.
October 9, 2005
Miers and Affirmative Action
From the Dallas Morning News: She may have no judicial record, but Supreme Court justice nominee Harriet Miers took firm stances on issues ranging from taxation to democratic reforms abroad as a one-term member of the Dallas City Council, a Dallas Morning News study of city records indicates. For example, in 1991, Miers voted in favor of a council resolution reaffirming economic sanctions Dallas had imposed against South Africa, then
October 8, 2005
Yankee my chain
Jay Caruso needs your help—though his cause is a helpless one. The substitute Rally Monkey, who has led the Angels to two straight victories, chortles at Jay’s presumptuosness…
October 8, 2005
“NOPD investigation of Cadillac cops may involve brass”
From the Times-Picayune: Acting New Orleans Police Superintendent Warren Riley said Thursday that as many as 40 officers from the department’s 3rd District, including the commanding captain, are “under scrutiny” for possibly bolting the city in the clutch and heading to Baton Rouge in Cadillacs from a New Orleans dealership. “It is a subject that is under review,” Riley said, stopping short of saying he has launched a formal investigation.
October 7, 2005
It’s Friday, and that means—
—well, before you get too excited, I should let you know that the little guy signed on with the Angels as a substitute “Rally Monkey” when their first-string Rally Monkey, “Pierre,” came down with food poisoning from eating spoiled mashed banana off the pocked breasts of some enormous Bronx hooker. The pay is decent—and the team plane is like an airborn Ritz-Carlton, he tells me—but he hates wearing the monkey