In addition to my post, there’s a new (well-written and informative) Wiki up regarding Mr. Wone and the case. Perhaps someone with Wiki-fu can take my piece on Dean Johnson and Jeremy Conklin and wiki that up, too. Little Miss Attila has a post up drawing the patterns in the two together, and numerous commenters have provided interesting reads on the stories, including that the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit

Jane Hamsher shows for a counter-Tea Party rally in DC that draws a couple dozen people. She claims that Fox News is financing the movement, though she later moves the goal posts. Just how far those goal posts are going to be moved is the question of the moment. Do go view the video of her frozen smile as she begs off answering the interviewer’s question. Really, the whole disinformation

Slate’s Daniel Politi on the day after Captain Phillips’s rescue by sharpshooters and the crew of the Bainbridge (link and emphasis mine): The American service members acted when the pirates appeared to be getting nervous and recognizing they they had no way out. The LAT talks to one elder in the port city of Eyl, a pirate haven, who says the pirates had dropped their demands for a ransom and

Reading about Dean Johnson’s gay NYC life isn’t something that everyone’s going to want to do. He moved there as a young man, just when the punk scene was getting going at legendary venues like CBGB’s. He became a doorman at a club and then a dancer, before becoming a party impresario of the gay scene and the frontman for a couple of outlandish, in-your-face gay bands. He wrote extensively

as far as I know, so please keep in mind that there’s still a fund-raiser going on. Unlike a certain person mentioned in the post directly below, Jeff isn’t paid by a magazine conglomerate to stroke his ocicats publicly. So, please do give generously, if you appreciate this blog.

Via Stacy McCain comes news of my mention, along with Jeff, happyfeet and Darleen at Wolly’s blog: That kerosene piss-off between Protein Wisdom’s Jeff Goldstein and Patterico? Totally my instigation. Using a series of aliases, pseudonyms, CIA cut-outs, and identity thefts as I moved from cybercafe to cybercafe, leaving an untraceable trail, I fomented a feud between these two whose circle of hostility widened as other bloggers felt compelled to

I realize that the Triduum is the most important event in the liturgical calendar, and as many of you know, I’m a pretty passionate follower of Jesus the Nazarene. What really bothers me, though (thanks to Karl for pointing this out) is very aptly expressed by Rich Moran, here, where he assumes the Good Friday position. From now on, if I feel the urge to bash Limbaugh or other righties

is . . . DOA. President Barack Obama has recently completed the most successful foreign policy tour since Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow. You name it, he blew it. What was his big deal economic programme that he was determined to drive through the G20 summit? Another massive stimulus package, globally funded and co-ordinated. Did he achieve it? Not so as you’d notice. Barack is not the first New World ingenue

I’ve joked about this with the Blogospheric Neologian, how in The Zero Hour the temptation is to give into bloggernoia, defined as the suspicious belief that other bloggers aren’t linking you because of envy, spite or other malevolent motives: “Dan Collins is just jealous of my superior blog-fu! Dan Riehl, too! All these Dans are in on the conspiracy against me! Bwahahahaha!” No, it’s true: we really are out to

Heartless Jim Treacher has some questions about The Sea-faring Wealth Redistributors who still hold the captain hostage. Jon at Exurban League has the TOTUS’s most recent comments on the piracy situation in Somalia. Dan Riehl has related thoughts. WTH agrees with USA Today author that Obama’s transformational . . . but in a bad way. At This Ain’t Hell, TSO wonders which supposedly right blogs should be on the Index