Overheard in the control room of the FOXNews studios, New York: First Producer: “…Now, if only some bastard would abduct and sexually molest a West Nile virus-stricken child — and the both of ’em somehow managed to get themselves attacked by sharks — then we’d really have a story…” Second Producer: “Mmmmm. A guy can dream, can’t he…?”

News flash: Our president and his attorney general are, if anything, oversolicitous of the (imaginary) civil liberties of their war-on-terrorism POWS. But don’t hold your breath waiting for the newspapers to notice. — “Treating Enemies Like Criminals,” David Tell, writing for the editors of The Weekly Standard

Reason’s Jesse Walker points to the troubling trend of surreptitious wars being waged against trailer parks. ‘Mobile homes are always being attacked,’ Stewart Brand wrote in his 1994 book How Buildings Learn. ‘By aesthetes for their appearance. By bigots for housing the “wrong” people. By the construction industry for “unfair

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA – “In a bizarre attack, a job hunter was ‘robbed’ of sperm in Kraaifontein, after a passerby offered him food, took him home and beat him up before forcing him to ejaculate into a jar,” IOL reports. “Police spokesman Ian Rosant confirmed that a 33-year-old man had laid a charge of indecent assault with Kraaifontein police.” He said the suspect, described as middle-aged, had offered the

Life on Mars confirmed. Finally — a plausible explanation for Andy Dick and Crispin Glover…

More on race from Eric Olsen — who draws on the work of Stanford population geneticist Dr. Neil Risch to argue that “race” is indeed biologically determinable (“Race Is Seen as Real Guide to Track Roots of Disease,” The New York Times) — concluding that “to accept objective differences between groups without yielding to the temptation to stigmatize ‘difference’ as inherently inferior […]” is a worthy new social mandate. …All

Michael Ledeen interviews Eliad Moreh, a survivor from the Hebrew University bombing: Ledeen: There are many who feel the Palestinians are entitled to be free, and to determine their own lives? Moreh: Of course, but not at the expense of our own lives. Palestinians were offered an independent state in the frame of the Oslo agreement, but they rejected it, and started a terrorist war against Israel, proving they had

Congrats to Vodkapundit Steve Green and his lovely bride Melissa on their recent nuptuals…! And if you’re reading this, Steve — well…then you’re just plain sad. Really. I mean, what are you thinking, dude? This is your honeymoon…! Shameful. I give it a year, tops.

Writing for The National Review, novelist Mark Goldblatt asks, “What Is Racism?” — and then he tries to answer his own question by drawing distinctions between rhetoric and reality, and between what he calls “racist truths” and racist beliefs: […] What does it mean nowadays to call someone, or something, ‘racist’? Is racism in the eye of the beholder, or does it have a proper sense? For me, this is

A while back, Atrios asked, “Why do so many conservatives always complain about campus leftists?” Not to be outdone, Matt Yglesias echoed that sentiment and added his own plausible deniability of the question’s relevance by way of anecdote and comparison: As a centrist college student, the campus left bothers me a great deal, but that’s because I need to live next door to them. Here on summer vacation, the whole