But is It ART?

Beckwith has a great zinger and an accusation of a double standard, and an interesting question all rolled into one:

What if it turned out that the guards at Gitmo did in fact flush a Koran down the toilet, but

AP is reporting: “BURBANK, Calif. – Actor Frank Gorshin, the impressionist with 100 faces best known for his Emmy-nominated role as The Riddler on the old ‘Batman’ television series, has died. He was 72”

Sad.
According to the article,

ABC in Baltimore reports that yesterday was the day the very last Astro Van rolled of the Baltimore assembly line.

OK, not much for YOU, I guess… but a look down the right column should tell you why it means

The Running Conservative has had a death in the family.

Stop by and drop Kate a kind word; she could use one.

What is the world’s record for text messaging? How many can you send in a month? Gizmodo seems to have the answer.

You’ll forgive me if I’m less than impressed with Pakistani Information Minister Sheikh Rashid Ahmad, who yesterday complained we need to be more sensitive to the feelings of Muslims, saying in part:

“The apology and retraction are not enough.  “They

I’ve gotten several bits of mail within the last few hours, in response to my comments on the Newsweak Koran Flushing idiocy.

Several of them point to the idea that when I’m talking about Newsweak, I’m talking about Michael Isikoff…

Boortz Notes Newsweak’s claim that journistic standards didn’t get dropped in this “Koran Flushing” nonsnese.

Boortz suggests that if that statement is true, their journalistic standards are best expressed thus:

* The Bush Administration didn’t rely on faulty intelligence in

James at Outside The Beltway :

“Newsweek has formally retracted its report that American soldiers flushed a Koran down a toilet to induce prisoners at Guantnamo to talk. In fact, the documentary evidence indicates just the opposite: an almost absurd

Scott Fybush over at NorthEast Radio Watch gives us an update on Cranston RI mayor Steve Laffey. According to Scott, Laffey is….

….now suing the state Board of Elections over the ruling that Laffey’s (now cancelled) Friday talk show on

Tom Alday notes that

Seattle congressman Jim McDermott, first class loon, idiot and terrorist sympathizer, will be the first House member to face the Ethics Committee, not the “embattled” Tom Delay.

Follow the link for the details.

Funny thing, how

From Outside The Beltway comes word that the NYT is moving it’s Columnists to “Subscriber Only” status.

Which, I think, will certainly sheild the NYT from the outrage of Joe and Jane Everyone. Who, but leftists… and far out wacko

From Deutsche Welle comes words of a stork in Krogaspe, more or less 120 kilometers north of Hamburg, wherein there’s a would-be momma and poppa stork, trying to hatch out a pile of golf balls, on a driving range.

Must

So says CBS:

After a three-year hunt involving investigators across the U.S. and Canada, a young girl who was featured on the Internet in a series of sexually explicit photographs has been found and is safe, police say.

The

McQ at Q&)::

“Riots in Afghanistan and inquiry by Saudi Arabia are the result of a Newsweek story about an alleged incident of flushing the Koran down a toilet at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

The alleged incident was perpetrated,