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Update: The Shoe-abomber’s been identified by French authorities as a 28-year old Sri Lanken, traveling on a British passport, named Tariq Raja. Preliminary tests suggest this crazy fucker had C-4 plastic explosives in his shoe. American Intelligence agencies say it’s too soon to tell if he had a song in his heart, as well…

Update: The Shoe-abomber’s been identified by French authorities as a 28-year old Sri Lanken, traveling on a British passport, named Tariq Raja. Preliminary tests suggest this crazy fucker had C-4 plastic explosives in his shoe. American Intelligence agencies say it’s too soon to tell if he had a song in his heart, as well…

For a displaced Marylander living in the Colorado Rockies (where something called “Rocky Mountain Oysters” are considered a local delicacy, but to sojourners like me are still really nothing more than deep-fried sheep’s balls), all this talk going on between Dawson J. and Tony A. about steamed crabs is triggering the ol’ Eastern shore saliva gland reflex. Umm…steamed crabs…served with fat, cobbed corn slickly dipped into a luxurious bath of

For a displaced Marylander living in the Colorado Rockies (where something called “Rocky Mountain Oysters” are considered a local delicacy, but to sojourners like me are still really nothing more than deep-fried sheep’s balls), all this talk going on between Dawson J. and Tony A. about steamed crabs is triggering the ol’ Eastern shore saliva gland reflex. Umm…steamed crabs…served with fat, cobbed corn slickly dipped into a luxurious bath of

From The Baltimore Sun: Congress has barred labeling Asian catfish from Vietnam as catfish because imports of it are cutting into sales of more expensive U.S. catfish grown in large man-made ponds in parts of the South. Instead, importers, restaurants and grocery stores will have to use a name such as ‘basa.’ Yes, the ban is only temporary — it ends when the budget expires Sept. 30, 2002 — but

Adil Farooq at Muslimpundit writes on the passing of the Taliban regime: When the Taliban made a livelihood out of seeking to punish even honest mistakes of what they regarded as absolute belief, it was a performance in the ultimate degradation of the human spirit. Muslims across the world, from Pakistan to Egypt, need to desperately learn from this important lesson and disassociate themselves from the claws of tyranny, not

Reason’s Brian Doherty is back at it, taking on bad medicine yet again — this time challenging the Surgeon General’s ridiculous fatwa on obesity. Writing in the L.A. Times, Doherty argues: What the surgeon general misses is that obesity isn’t something caused by an outside pathogen or injury whose bad consequences are then unavoidable without expert medical treatment. Obesity is a condition. It is caused by freely chosen behavior. Certainly,

Reason’s Brian Doherty is back at it, taking on bad medicine yet again — this time challenging the Surgeon General’s ridiculous fatwa on obesity. Writing in the L.A. Times, Doherty argues: What the surgeon general misses is that obesity isn’t something caused by an outside pathogen or injury whose bad consequences are then unavoidable without expert medical treatment. Obesity is a condition. It is caused by freely chosen behavior. Certainly,

…Time for Vehr’s Punditwatch, excellent as always…