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Telegraph - Iraq al-Qa’eda leader Zarqawi wounded

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the al-Qa’eda leader in Iraq, has been wounded, according to a posting on a website linked to the terror group. A statement on the website of the Al-Qa’eda Organistion for Holy War called on followers to pray for Zarqawi’s recovery. [...]

Categories: War and Peace

You’ll remember a couple months ago that Zimbabwe had some elections. They didn’t go so hot. Unless your last name is Mugabe, and you’re in the habit of wielding machetes against the poor and starving in your country. Then you were pretty pleased, all in all.

BBC - Leaving behind Zimbabwe’s land, By [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Predating this blog by several years, I’ve been following this court case with a great deal of interest. It just fascinates me. For those of you unfamiliar with all of Mel Gibson’s early work, or perhaps just lacking a deep comprehension of 18th Century British Naval History, or even the many twists in [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, high blood-pressure sufferers and ulcer survivers, this will be your one-stop shop for all news having nothing at all to do with the continuation of the Judicial Filibuster, the spinless twitness of our “moderate” Senators, the rule of a couple lying bloviators over the will of the majority, nor the big-steaming-pile-of-elephant-defacatatory [...]

Categories: Entertainment

This pictures cracks me up.

Laura Bush and Suzanne Mubarak, wife of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, meet children’s television character Nimnim, left, and Amr Koura, CEO of Alkarma Endutainment, before taking a segment for the “Alam Simsim” show in Cairo, Egypt, May 23, 2005. The program offers educational curriculum in an inventive way that puts [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

So much for getting this over with.

FOXnews - Deal Reached to Avert Judicial Showdown

Averting a showdown, centrists from both parties reached agreement Monday night on a compromise that clears the way for confirmation votes on many of President Bush’s stalled judicial nominees, leaves others in limbo and preserves venerable Senate filibuster rules.

Here’s the [...]

Categories: Politics

Why do we even bother?

Newsweek’s orginal Izzygate entry::

May 9 issue - Investigators probing interrogation abuses at the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay have confirmed some infractions alleged in internal FBI e-mails that surfaced late last year. Among the previously unreported cases, sources tell NEWSWEEK: interrogators, in an attempt to rattle suspects, flushed [...]

Categories: Business & Media

BBC - Americans look to Jesus for diet, By Michelle Roberts

Don Colbert, a Florida doctor, believes asking yourself “What would Jesus eat?” is the best way to stay fit, slim and trim.

He also walked the length and breadth of Galilee, you idiot.

Categories: Food

This is something you’re bound not to find in very many places. I took business classes in school, and I never heard anything like this. One wonders why it’s so hard for politicians to say. I guess we’re too stupid to handle the numbers.

Click, click, click. If only saving half the world [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Could this be catching? Can there be hope for my home hills?

If you listen to Rush Limbaugh, you probably heard him read this in the second and third segment of the first hour:

Thompson at Large, From the San Francisco Chronicle - LEAVING THE LEFT: Out of the corner of my eye I watched what was [...]

Categories: Politics

Though I’m not British, unless you mean in a very loose-jointed historical-Commonwealthy sort of way. So, first the setup:

Weekly Standard - Unmitigated Galloway: Saddam’s favorite MP goes to Washington. by Christopher Hitchens

This was exactly his demeanor when I ran into him last Tuesday on the sidewalk of Constitution Avenue, outside the Dirksen [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

You could read too much into my posting this, and you’d probably be right, but mostly it’s just Brett McS, Australian Photo Correspondent Extraordinaire, sending me fun pictures his friend took in Brisbane last week.

Isn’t that cool? I love a good electical storm. I love all sorts of storms, really. That little [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

See, this is the problem: Newsweek screws up, my parents cancelled their subscription a dozen years ago. Newspapers screw up, I don’t read newspapers, I rarely read their webpages, my parents get the Merc and the Wall Street Journal, but so far they’re okay. Pepsi screws up, I haven’t had a drop of [...]

Categories: Business & Media

Hamid Karzai receives an honorary doctorate from Boston University, and prepares to meet with Bush to ask for a long term relationship with the US on Monday. Isn’t that interesting.

Laura Bush goes to Israel, visits the Western Wall, the Dome of the Rock, and gets mobbed by protesters demanding Jonathan Pollard’s release as Hamas [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

And in non-filibuster news (rare, but so much more interesting and important):

The Weekend Australian - Bush’s Indian gambit, by Paul Kelly

ITS logic is inescapable yet the idea has been inconceivable: a strategic partnership between the two great democracies, the US and India, long divided by distrust and the Cold War. [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs