“freedom” → “the soft tyranny of rampant consumerism” “insurgency” → “quasi-soccer hooligans” “Islamic fundamentalism” → “slightly miffed Muslims with a wee bit of a bone to pick” “inchoate democracy” → “seemingly endless fields of dead Iraqi civilians whose dying wish was to return their country to the halcyon days of Saddam’s stern but loving rule.” “Israel” → “Palestinian territory” “George Bush” → ”Him” “french fries” → “chips” “United States” →

FOXNews’ “Dayside” today featured in one of its segments an Allegheny County, PA fifth-grader, winner of the “There Ought to be a Law” contest sponsered by Allegheny County legislators.  His winning entry?  A bill maintaining that all animals need be restrained while riding in moving vehicles.  Oh—and that dogs shouldn’t be allowed to stick their heads out of car windows.  Because of the danger. Isn’t that just so adorable?  Cue

From CNN: Afghan villagers sheltered a U.S. Navy SEAL wounded in a battle last month with the Taliban until they could get word to American forces to rescue him, a military official said Monday. The SEAL was part of a four-man reconnaissance team that went missing June 28 after calling for help during a firefight in the mountains near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. The other three members of the team died

From Sky News: Personal documents of four suspected bombers were found near the bomb scenes of the London terror attacks – at least one of them may have died in the strikes, police say. The men travelled down from west Yorkshire and arrived at Kings Cross station shortly before the attacks were launched on Thursday morning. Their images were captured by CCTV cameras. All four attackers – not confirmed to

Good piece by David Limbaugh responding to the Washington Post’s E.J. Dionne, who, in arguing (however peripherally) for strict proportional representation, displays a fundamental misunderstanding of how the US government is supposed to function, and betrays a cynical (and thoroughly partisan) view of the courts that Limbaugh is correct to seize upon: […] E. J. Dionne Jr. asked in a recent column, “Should a temporary majority of 50.7 percent have

Interesting analysis of the way Sandra Day O’Connor’s “feminism” stacks up—or rather, fails to stack up—to contemporary feminist dogma.  From Cathy Young, “O’Connor’s True Feminism”, The Boston Globe: By shattering a barrier to women’s advancement, O’Connor surely earned her place in the history books. But is her gender otherwise relevant to judging her legacy? One remarkable gender-centric assessment of O’Connor appeared on the op-ed page of The New York Times,