From the World Tribune (via Drudge): North Korea blasted President Bush’s appointment of Undersecretary of State John Bolton, one of the toughest critics of Pyongyang, as new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, saying he would only raise tensions in the international community. “The most undesirable person was named U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, thus raising tension in the United Nations and international community,” said Choson Sinbo, the newspaper

Kerouac:  “You don’t seem to get it, man.  That so-called ‘hole’ in your roof is supposed to be there.  I designed it that way—so that you could see the stars and feel the rain and touch the world.  Christ, don’t be such a bourgeois control freak…”

Citing this post from Eugene Volokh, Talkleft’s Jeralyn Merritt, guest posting at Vodkapundit, claims Professor Volokh “stepped in it big time Thursday with an endorsement of Iranian torture.” The post in question comments on the execution of 24-year old Mohammad Bijeh, dubbed by the Iranian press “the Tehran desert vampire,” who was flogged 100 times and then hanged. According to an Iranian news account of the execution, “a brother of

Me: “I love you, man.” Guinness:  Me: “You’re like, so rich, y’know?  So dark.  So smooth…” Guinness: Me: Guinness: Me: Guinness: Me:  “You’re like a fine chocolate, is what you are.” Guinness: Me:  “– Or like Billy Dee Williams…” Guinness: Me:  “…Circa 1975.” Guinness: Me: Guinness:  Me: “But then, I bet you get that all the time.” Guinness: Me: Guinness: Me: “I love you, man.” Guinness: “Uh huh.  I’m gonna

Were Thursday to change abruptly into Monday, my garbage would never get picked up, and I—along with millions of others—would likely die of plague.  Eventually.

Congressional steroid probe begins. **** update:  If it’s any indication of the overall quality of these hearings, a member of Congress just asked renowned Cato scholar Jose Canseco whether or not the government should consider universal drug testing for athletes at all levels of competition. On my tax dollar. A note to House Panel members:  Jose Canseco is an expert on hitting the belt-high fastball, sticking himself with a needle,

…I never used to like asparagus, but now I do.  How crazy is that…?

From the Weekly Standard’s “Scrapbook,” March 21:  “A January 1, 1995, [New York] Times editorial on proposals to restrict the use of Senate filibusters: In the last session of Congress, the Republican minority invoked an endless string of filibusters to frustrate the will of the majority. This relentless abuse of a time-honored Senate tradition so disgusted Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa, that he is now willing to forgo

…there was Halabja.  And yesterday marked the 17th anniversary of Saddam Hussein’s chemical attack on the Kurdish village. 7000 civilians were killed. **** (h/t condrieu)

From Erick Pfeiffer, NRO’s Beltway Buzz: NYT Arrives Locked and Loaded You can expect the mainstream press to ask its share of loaded questions in presidential press conferences. However, Elizabeth Bumiller of the New York Times asked Bush a question that caught even the White House press off-guard. When discussing Paul Wolfowitz, Bumiller described Wolfowitz as “a chief architect of one of the most unpopular wars in history.” The president