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Skorr Grim - Something Doesn’t Fit

Let’s put these pieces of information together in a nice, clean bulleted list, with the important parts in bold: The Alaskan Way viaduct is in imminent danger of falling down. The monorail will be able to carry some of the congestion load [...]

Categories: Politics

The French are no fun at all, and the British are looking awfully dour, too.

BBC - France accepts Trafalgar legacy, By Caroline Wyatt

On Tuesday France will join Britain for an international Fleet Review presided over by the Queen, for a celebration of the sea - which also commemorates 200 years since the Battle [...]

Categories: History

Tom Cruise Kills Oprah

Hilarious!

Update: Real Video version.

Categories: Entertainment

God it’s refreshing when the rest of the world is excluded.

Navy News Service - Army, Navy Team Up on Boxer

ABOARD USS BOXER - The Australian army and the U.S. Navy are working side by side for four intensive weeks during Exercise Talisman Saber 2005 in June. Currently, there are more [...]

Categories: War and Peace

So, who wants to buy me this?

ninme shows a little leg

Categories: Art and Literature

This cracked me up. And it’s a good reminder why I’d hate to live in DC. The sleaziest place on the face of the planet but you can’t even wear a cute dress.

Washington Times - Dressed for the Capitol kill, By Stephanie Mansfield

Categories: Politics

Times Online - A new Marshall plan for Iraq, by Ibrahim al-Jaafari Europe was saved by generosity and vision — the same is needed in the Middle East

LAST WEEK I was at Blair House in the centre of Washington DC. In this house is the table on which George Marshall in June 1947 signed [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Wheat & Weeds - Reversing Kelo

Someone wrote to Jonah Goldberg at the Corner with this idea. “The quickest way to reverse Kelo is to find some conservative town in Utah somewhere to shut down an abortion clinic in order to make room for a Wal-Mart. Also, [...]

Categories: Politics

Went to Mount Rainier today. Drove all through the park. The mountain even came out of hiding for a little bit.

That’s a hoary marmot. Isn’t he cute?

Categories: Science and Nature

I was going to make this my absolutely the funniest item of the day, but frankly, I think it transcends that. Bubblehead pens an ode to the Instalanche:

“‘Twas the day after Sunday, and all through my site, Not a visitor was active, not getting a bite; My posts had been [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

VDH is pissed.

The Washington Times - Asymmetry in the slurs. By Victor Davis Hanson

Read the whole thing. But this is exactly my protesting Starbucks theme, exxcept well-articulated:

There is also an asymmetry in these slurs. Few mention there really are monsters and mass killers living among us — the North Koreans who have [...]

Categories: Politics

What Classic Movie Are You?personality tests by similarminds.com

Quoth Peter: “Niiice.”

Curtsy: Schindler’s List. I mean, Wheat & Weeds.

(Btw, Peter? He’s Apocalypse Now.)

Categories: Entertainment

Chrenkoff - Brother, can you spare a dime for a roadside bomb?

Two days ago, Donny George, director of Iraq’s National Museum, made a plea to Western antiquities collectors to stop buying looted Iraqi artifacts, not only because the illicit trade is robbing Iraq of its rich cultural heritage, but also because its [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I linked to this yesterday, but I just thought I’d throw this out there:

Catholic Exchange - Benedict XVI Pays Official Visit to President of Italy

The Holy Father recalled how relations between the Church and the Italian State “are founded on the principle expressed during Vatican Council II, according to which ‘the Church and [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I’m an Adorable Little Rodent!

Categories: Wildcard