From a comment by Sdferr which refers to this entry at the jawa report. People were talking about it a little in the comments, so I thought they might like a new place to speculate. I’m one of those who thinks that Bin Laden has long since passed, and if this is true, someone in AQ could be looking at a promotion. Let the back-stabbing begin! Update: Apparently he’s only

In the kind of bar I’m used to, when someone plays “Folsom Prison Blues” on the jukebox, it’s okay if there is sometimes a sing-along from some of the patrons. Update: changed spelling from “Folsem” to “Folsom” because otherwise no one would know what the heck I was talking about.

How long till Reid claims it for Nevada?

From reader Pat Riotic comes this end-times news: Dan, Do you recall the obnoxious news story about Oregon’s health care program declining to treat a woman’s lung cancer due to cost, but could find it in their budget to fund her assisted suicide? The Oregonian says this must be fixed. But why they say it must be fixed is equally as obnoxious: “The dust-up over this conflict comes at a

Internal investigation by the Justice Department shows that during President Bush’s tenure Monica Goodling has made political orientation a major factor in the hiring of Justice Department attorneys, and I agree that this is a shameful and BAD THING.  I wonder, then, when Congress will step in to determine whether political orientation plays any role in hiring at National Public Radio, and if so, how and why?  It seems to

We’re not going to talk about the man who stabbed, gutted and decapitated a sleeping passenger on a Greyhound bus in Canada, because it’s a tragedy, and it’s better left to sensationalist websites to pander to the debauched taste for such ultraviolent tripe.  I’m just not going to go there. Instead, I’d like to write about an incident that occurred last Thursday in Iowa City, where Matthew Osing invited friend

Today the Burge-Goldstein ticket received a major boost in this very tight race when Mr. Burge’s press relations office leaked to Bill O’Reilly the details of two major position papers, one dealing with the gas crunch and the other with the status of exotic dancing in Mr. Burge’s home state of Iowa. Responding to Obama’s recommendation that, rather than falling for the ‘hoax’ of drilling for more oil, Americans ought

In this short match against an opponent 50 pounds heavier, I break the leg scissors, pass the legs, feint like I’m going for the choke, and secure the cross face. Yield: tap! Discuss — particularly as it pertains to contemporary politics / theories of interpretation / the death and eventual resurrection of Anna Nicole / the overwrought prose of James Wolcott. …Or else, just savor it.

Righ’cheer:

The Center for Responsive Politics and seven other watchdog groups recently asked asked John McCain and Barack Obama to disclose more information to the public about their fundraising “bundlers” and their small donors.  McCain responded; Obama ignored them.  McCain also fares better overall on donor disclosure. At the Politico, Ben Smith notes: Obama’s bundler figures don’t include the bundlers raise for other committees connected to the campaign, which renders the disclosure pretty