Lots of bloodsoaked bloggers in Cyberville tonight, having invested a lot of time this afternoon and early evening eviscerating this report by New Hampshire-Durham’s Marc Herold, professor (or, as the MediaFile site has it, “Progfessor”) of Economics and Women’s Studies. Herold’s “research” (yawn) purports to expose the “true number” of civilian casualties in Afghanistan. Left unanswered, of course, is how a professor of Economics and Women’s Studies is qualified for

…Just heard Johnny bin Walker being interviewed by CNN. Is it just my imagination, or does he sound a li’l bit like a later Kathleen Turner (y’know, after she began affecting a vaguely Austrian accent)? Hmm. ‘Dunno. Could be I’m thinking of Max von Sydow in Three Days of the Condor… Alsace Lorraine, maybe?

The Weekly Standard’s David Skinner puts a worldclass whompin‘ on Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham, who in a series of recent essays has located American culpability for the September 11th attacks in everything from Nieman Marcus to Steven Spielberg to …well, potholes. Skinner deftly distills the position taken up by many in the intelligensia — of whom Lapham is but a prominently placed and particularly squeaky representative — and then dismisses

The Weekly Standard’s David Skinner puts a worldclass whompin‘ on Harper’s editor Lewis Lapham, who in a series of recent essays has located American culpability for the September 11th attacks in everything from Nieman Marcus to Steven Spielberg to …well, potholes. Skinner deftly distills the position taken up by many in the intelligensia — of whom Lapham is but a prominently placed and particularly squeaky representative — and then dismisses

Reason’s Nick Gillespie replies to Jonah Goldberg in the latest round of the libertarian v. conservative internet-inspired pissing contest. A sample: One of the defining characteristics of contemporary America and the modern world writ large is that more individuals have the means and motivation to insist on a “culture” that reflects their particular needs and sensibilities. Jonah ridicules this as underwriting such apparently clear absurdities as “Buddhists for Jesus” (as

Reason’s Nick Gillespie replies to Jonah Goldberg in the latest round of the libertarian v. conservative internet-inspired pissing contest. A sample: One of the defining characteristics of contemporary America and the modern world writ large is that more individuals have the means and motivation to insist on a “culture” that reflects their particular needs and sensibilities. Jonah ridicules this as underwriting such apparently clear absurdities as “Buddhists for Jesus” (as

Peter Wood, associate provost, Boston University, has this to say about the latest chapter in the increasingly tedious story of convicted Cop killer Mumia Abu-Jamal: “[…] we owe Judge Yohn’s decision [to vacate the death sentence] to Antioch College, to NPR, and to all those well-meaning idiots who think it enlightened to doubt that a black man can get a fair trial in America. In fact, anyone can get a

From the Editors at National Review Online: Some traitors, from Benedict Arnold to Robert Hanssen, betray their country out of greed; others, like the Rosenbergs, out of conviction. Even as the Rosenbergs were extreme but predictable products of Communist opinion, so Walker is a grotesque but unsurprising product of his milieu. But more important than any milieu are a man’s nearest and dearest, and more important than they is his

Via the irrepressible Tim Blair: Global survey of world “opinion leaders” concludes that American policies provoked the Semptember 11 attack. The Pew Research Centre and The International Herald Tribune conducted the survey, part of a project on global attitudes headed by Madeleine Albright. The specific policies “responsible” were not identified. Naturally. In a related story…”Frustrated son blames student loan debt on mother’s longtime policy of sleeping with father.”

Via the irrepressible Tim Blair: Global survey of world “opinion leaders” concludes that American policies provoked the Semptember 11 attack. The Pew Research Centre and The International Herald Tribune conducted the survey, part of a project on global attitudes headed by Madeleine Albright. The specific policies “responsible” were not identified. Naturally. In a related story…”Frustrated son blames student loan debt on mother’s longtime policy of sleeping with father.”