Paul Martin has a nice piece on the Euro in today’s The Washington Times — a fairly comprehensive examination of the currency — and of concerns surrounding the changeover — as E-Day looms abroad… To me, the most interesting bit about the Euro is that the majority of EU citizens don’t want it — but that doesn’t much matter to EU bureaucrats, who always — always — know best…

From The New York Times: “With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China”: AIDS in China is spreading at a breakneck pace

From The New York Times: “With Ignorance as the Fuel, AIDS Speeds Across China”: AIDS in China is spreading at a breakneck pace

Alex Knapp of Heretical Ideas responds intelligently and forcefully to my argument defending George Will

I lost interest a couple paragraphs into Maureen Dowd’s column today, but I managed to pull something out of it to ridicule: After 9/11, the great chatterers predicted that adults would want to escape with light romantic movies. But instead, rentals of blow-’em-up and terrorism movies spiked. Oblivious to her own position among the chattering class (or maybe “great” is a value judgment?), Dowd fails to notice a similar pattern

The New York Times is reporting that the cave-by-cave hunt for Usama Bin Laden is losing steam: The American- backed effort to comb the caves of Tora Bora for signs of Osama bin Laden, his fighters and intelligence on terrorist attacks that might be in the works has made little progress and seems to be fading as a top priority, American and Afghan officials said today. More than 50 American

The New York Times is reporting that the cave-by-cave hunt for Usama Bin Laden is losing steam: The American- backed effort to comb the caves of Tora Bora for signs of Osama bin Laden, his fighters and intelligence on terrorist attacks that might be in the works has made little progress and seems to be fading as a top priority, American and Afghan officials said today. More than 50 American

Going out for breakfast with the wife. Where our residential sidestreet hits the main road is a li’l diner, offering chicken-fried steak, 2 eggs, bacon, hashbrowns, toast, and coffee — all for $3.50! Yet — inexplicably — we’ve never eaten there, despite living beside the friggin’ place for going on 3 years. So this morning we’re going for it. Newsworthy blogs to follow — provided my tres-buck chicken-fried steak isn’t

In reaction to George Will’s column, “General Sherman’s Advice,” Alex Knapp of Heretical Ideas argues that emulating Gen. Sherman in our war against al Qaeda (pac

Rantburg links to this story detailing the exploits of a makeshift “international solidarity movement” in the West Bank — a cobble of Brits, Frenchies, Italians, and Palestinians holding “non-violent” protests on behalf of Palestinian students who have been barred from Bir Zeit University. Naturally, they set fire to shit and tried to topple concrete slabs. Because of some prior commitments, John Walker was unable to attend the protests… [Update: Charles