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Peter and I watched I Heart Huckabees today. It’s actually quite good, with very slight scenes around the end that are in rather poor taste.

But it made me laugh because some parts of it, actually most of it, reminded me of what I imagine most MoveOn.org meet-ups must sound like.

Categories: Entertainment

Va-va-va-voom!

Categories: Catblogging

VDH - Reformation or Civil War? The jihadists cannot be reasoned with, only defeated.

Iraq has inadvertently become the battleground of a long overdue reckoning, a bellwether of the future of the Middle East. If the constitutionalists win, then the jihadists will be in retreat and there will be at last a third way [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Glenn:

PERHAPS IF HOLLYWOOD HAD MORE PEOPLE who had been in the military, it would be able to make military stuff that doesn’t suck. But judging from various and sundry negative reviews for the new FX show Over There, they’re not pulling that off at the moment. Maybe they should try [...]

Categories: Entertainment

Let’s reign in the hyperbole a teensy weensy bit, shall we?

Seattle Times - Are Japanese finally ready for empress? By Bennett Richardson

TOKYO — Japan’s monarchy is so woven into the island nation’s traditions that it survived defeat in World War II and invasion by the Mongols, and predates the introduction of rice. Now, a [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

WaPo - Canada-Denmark ties get icy over Arctic isle

A barren desert island in the High Arctic populated only by seals and the occasional polar bear is at the center of a diplomatic tiff between otherwise friendly Canada and Denmark after Canadian Defense Minister Bill Graham quietly set foot on the disputed land last [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Michelle Malkin - LIBERAL MATH: INSURGENTS=RESIDENTS

Video (money quote a little under halfway through, before the break) from The Political Teen

Lorie Byrd at PoliPundit - Insurgents = Residents

Chris Matthews had another one of his anti-war fests Thursday night. After interviewing the Iraqi Marine vet turned anti-war candidate for congress, he had a panel consisting [...]

Categories: Politics

Power Line yesterday:

A Stroke of Genius?

It must be very strange to be President Bush. A man of extraordinary vision and brilliance approaching to genius, he can’t get anyone to notice. He is like a great painter or musician who is ahead of his time, and who unveils one masterpiece after another to a [...]

Categories: Science and Nature

Telegraph - A whiff of Old Labour

Amid our countless public enterprises that lose money and cost the taxpayer vast sums, the Prince of Wales’s private Duchy of Cornwall is successful, enterprising and profitable. That does not prevent the Public Accounts Committee of the House of Commons, where no one is ill-paid or ill-pensioned, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

This is hilarious. Go Chuck!

Telegraph - Perhaps Prince Charles should run the NHS. By Alice Thomson

Isn’t it time MPs were more scrutinised? They are off on another three-month holiday, their pensions are among the best in Britain, they receive generous petrol allowances, first-class tickets to their constituencies, subsidised canteen food and second [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

As opposed to ABC’s behaviour, Sky News careful enough to blur out the licence plates of the police vehicles used in the raids this morning.

Meanwhile, in Drudgeland, top of the page with accompanying huge graphic:

FRIST IN STEM CELL SPLIT

Ah yes, on top of every important story, is Drudge.

Categories: Business & Media

Times Online - ‘Take your clothes off and come out’ By Philippe Naughton

“Mohammed,” shouted the police. “Take your clothes off! Come out with your hands on your head and you will be all right!” “I have rights!” came the reply. “I have rights.”

Hysterical! I love it!

Residents of [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Not terribly appropriate, I would say.

FOXnews - Suspects Nabbed in London Bomber Search

LONDON — British police launched a major raid Friday in west London’s Notting Hill area and arrested two suspects in the failed July 21 bombing attempts, Sky News reported.

I wonder if Madonna is going to pull another one of her running-away-in-terror [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Okay people, I’ve had a few reports of comments not getting posted, but what’s been happening to me on and off the past couple days, and this morning FREAKING CONSTANTLY is that the server will time out or something after I hit save and yet the comment will still be there. So, go back [...]

Categories: Wildcard

I just found this (can’t find a link), digging through my archives:

Times Online - December 20, 2002 - Little monsters see the big, bad, Wide World, by Simon Jenkins

I am disinclined to read too much into any author’s intentions. Volumes have been written on the psychology of Peter Pan and the feminist iconography [...]

Categories: Art and Literature