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Alan E Brain has a good round up of Oz’s troops helping the Japanese. He makes a point (twice) that the Sunni/Shia thing is a tribal thing, not a religious thing. I think that deserves a little repeating. So, there.

He also mentions that Australians are not averse to receiving “the many expressions [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I used to write letters in high school form AI. I can do this.

Via Silent Running,

BBC - Global blogger action day called, By Jo Twist

The global web log community is being called into action to lend support to two imprisoned Iranian bloggers. The month-old Committee to Protect Bloggers’ is [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Via Michelle Malkin, The year’s 10 most underreported stories: WND’s ‘Operation Spike’ pinpoints major events media ignore

No. 2 I think is the most interesting. I can’t believe people weren’t more interested in this. I had to explain the whole thing to Peter a couple days ago because he’d never heard of it. [...]

Categories: Politics

Atlanticist small talk is all that’s left, By Mark Steyn

If you read the whole thing, he sounds quite down by the end. This, however, is hilarious, and true:

But, in the broader sense vis-à-vis Europe, the administration is changing the tone precisely because it understands there can be no substance. And, if there’s [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Annan Defends United Nations as ‘Vital to Humanity’

The only way I see that working is if by “humanity” he means “the bastards born to the 12-year-old Congolese girls raped by my humanitarian workers” then, yeah, it’s vital. One wouldn’t exist without the other. Otherwise, I think if us First Worlders want to feel [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

I wonder if there will be a whole section called “Inside the Tent” with lots of soft harp music and Tom proselytizing.

Tom Cruise Wants to Assist With on-set Scientology.

Tom Cruise, the film’s star and the religion’s most well-known adherent, has set up a Scientology tent with a volunteer minister. “It’s a gift from [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Europe’s invisible masters, By Camilla Cavendish

This sounds so like The Conspiracy group in the X-Files.

AS HE dodges between the forked tongues and canapés in Brussels, George W. Bush can be thankful for one thing. He has to dine only with the colourful politicians who think that they lead Europe, not with the 25 [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

California, land of eternal sunshine. Er, could we take a raincheck on that? LA Notebook by Chris Ayres

If you think the English are obsessed with the weather, try watching the evening news in Los Angeles. Every day, for the past three months, the lead story has been the same: “Oh-My-God-It’s-Raining!” The rain [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Times Online - Television. It’s a no-brainer, by Libby Purves Amid all the hysterical health scares, we’re forgetting something: that mind-rotting box in the corner

THE HUMAN RACE has a long history of worrying about the wrong thing, then looking back decades later in disbelief at the way it missed the point. There was a [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Man Charged With Plot to Assassinate Bush

ahhhh

ALEXANDRIA, Va. — A former Virginia high school valedictorian who had been detained in Saudi Arabia as a suspected terrorist was charged Tuesday with conspiring to assassinate President Bush and with supporting the Al Qaeda terrorist network.

Never trust a valedictorian. They have to win. Don’t take disappointment [...]

Categories: Politics

Oh my God.

BBC - Op to remove baby’s second head

Oh my God. The kid has two heads!

Uh, note, please, the tense change from the headline to the story… shrug

Doctors have operated successfully to remove a second head from a 10-month-old baby. Manar Maged was originally one of conjoined [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Can’t you just imagine how smug our Ms. Kunhardt looked as she sealed those extra nine letters in the package? I bet she opened a bottle of red wine that night to congratulate herself on presenting a more fair perspective of the marauding destroying tools of the military industrial machine.

NY Post - SOLDIER STUNNED [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

There’s a Condi action figure. She looks like Mike Tyson.

Curtsy: Michelle Malkin. I think we should all stick to American Girls.

Btw, Hillary Clinton’s neck is not that long. She looks like Sharon Stone with bad hair.

Moral of this story: Always get the Japanese to make your action figures.

Categories: Politics

It’s been twenty four hours and I just need to point something out.

I really don’t care about Hunter S. Thompson dying. Why does he get to be on Drudge, have a Features slot on FOXnews.com, and general front page treatment on every freaking news outlet all this time later?

I know that ‘literary’ and culturally [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

I raise him one please.

Curtsy Bill, at INDC Journal. He only has two too, like me. (Amazon doesn’t count.)

Categories: People and Current Events