At Duke, they like their anthropology served up with a heaping bowl of paranoid nutflakes and a slice or two of hot-buttered leftist boilerplate. Oh, and grits. Those people do love their grits.

Here: “Kerry Helps Struggling Longshoreman Load Heavy Fish Crates” and other unlikely headlines. File under: Another failure in our ill-advised war on terror. [via Vodkapundit].

Great. Turns out there’s a 2-in-3 chance I’m going to Hell. But at least it’s a dry heat. Stupid Ten Commandments. [via World Wide Rant]

Cato senior fellow Alan Reynolds writes, As I feared last August, the European Union just shoved its grasping hand deep into the pockets of a leading American firm — Microsoft — while also attempting to dictate the features of Windows and expropriate intellectual property rights of its creators. Well, they are socialists. Microsoft is to be fined about $600 million, which is essentially a foreign tax on the primarily American

Just got my latest batch of DVDs in the mail — among them, Anchor Bay’s 2-disc Commemorative Edition of the Sam Peckinpah swan song, The Osterman Weekend; and 21 Grams, starring Sean Penn. And that’s not the only Penn movie I own. So, uh, those of you who’ve been quick to label me a “right winger”? — I’d say you owe me an apology. Just because. Go on, I’ll wait.

Valerie Perrine owes this guy a hummer… Well, somebody does.

Overheard in the West Bank town of Hebron: “…Are you sure, Ibrahim? Because to me it looks more like it says J Crew…” Related: Reached for comment, the Milwaukee Jesus Tree had this to say: What..? It’s a fucking tree guys. It didn’t say anything, for Chrissakes. Go away.

Of course, the only thing worse than “penile amputation” (that’s twice you’ll hear that phrase today) is getting your ass kicked by a swishy, ‘fro-bearin’ sweatmonkey in a sleeveless sequin-spangled bodysuit. Or is that the same thing?

More proof that the phrase “penile amputation” gets a bad rap. “Draining the abscess,” too. But you’re just gonna have to trust me on that one.

Here’s a transcript of the August 2002 background briefing given by Richard Clarke to a handful of reporters, among them FOXNews’ Jim Angle (who today received White House permission to make the briefing public). The answers Clarke gave in 2002 appear to contradict directly the allegations he’s been leveling — both in his book and in his testimony before the September 11th Commission — that prior to the Trade Center