Really. Matt Taibbi on Thomas Friedman’s The World is Flat from an old issue of the New York Press. On an ideological level, Friedman’s new book is the worst, most boring kind of middlebrow horseshit. And this: On page 174, Friedman is describing a flight he took on Southwest Airlines from Baltimore to Hartford, Connecticut. [...]

Hamas, on the State Department Designated Foreign Terrorist Organization list, has all but endorsed Senator Obama . . . –The Tank, a National Review Online blog Well, we knew this would come around sooner or later. The primary isn’t even over yet! Can’t these Hamas guys at least hold out until the convention, like Hillary’s [...]

. . . because I was on the pot. (Taking a shit, that is.)

I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to the band The Thermals before, but I’m definitely going to have to now. As one story notes, “The Body, The Blood, The Machine,” the band’s third full-length, was produced by Fugazi‘s Brendan Canty, released by Sub Pop and tells the fictitious tale of a young couple attempting to [...]

The Vatican was last night at the centre of an unusually public sex scandal after acknowledging it had suspended a senior official who was filmed apparently propositioning a young man in his office. Monsignor Tommaso Stenico, a capo ufficio, or section head, at the Vatican ministry responsible for the clergy, insisted yesterday he was not [...]

What you missed if you didn’t read today’s The New York Times: In a story detailing problems with the Bush administration push for Medicare enrollees to utilize private plans for the new drug benefit comes this nugget: In March, Sierra Health Services ended drug coverage for more than 2,300 Medicare beneficiaries with H.I.V./AIDS, saying they [...]

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The FBI-California Highway Patrol Joint Counter-terrorism Task Force has asked right-wing-nut David Horowitz‘s organization, the David Horowitz Freedom Center (pride is a sin, Dave), to provide them with a copy of their video, “What Every American Needs to Know About Jihad,” to train their officers. You can view the ridiculous video here. Then head over [...]

Is it taking the Ten Commandments too far to deny a ventriloquist’s dummy (or, to be politically correct, “hard figure” — no pun intended) a tryst with Winona Ryder? To a couple of our fellow Texans who make hard figures, the answer is a resounding yes. That the part of the dummy in “The Ten,” [...]

Great column by John Noonan at The Daily Standard: FOR NEARLY 200 years, cadets at the United States Military Academy have been guided by the “Thayer System,” a rigid structure of unyielding regulation, austere discipline, fierce loyalty, and strong emphasis on math, science, and engineering. The method is calculated to produce Army officers of the [...]