“The Whore Lived Like a German”

My mailbox today is loaded to the gills with people forwarding me this disturbing link from Der Spiegel:

In the past four months, six Muslim women living in Berlin have been brutally murdered by family members. Their crime? Trying

OK, I didn’t do much with the blog over the weekend.

Here’s one reason.

Thomas, doing his thing.

This weekend turned out to be kid-centered. I’ll be posting some thoughts about the weekend’s events in Bit’s Bits. Watch here for

To explain yesterday, I need to take you back a four years. My younger boy found himself wrapped in Thomas the Tank Engine. Over the previous years, we had obtained, either used or new, perhaps every tape that the Britt

Watcher of Weasels notes the bit with the plane in DC’s airspace yesterday, and suggests this may be a fairly solid case against the use of the wet dream of the 1963 world’s fair…. flying cars.

Chuck at YOU BIG MOUTH YOU passes along information about a Girl Scout troop delivering cookes to Sailors on station in Singapore, aboard the USS SAFEGUARD.

A great story.

WSB in Atlanta has the base closure story up, with the list.

I’d like a bit of time to study it before I comment at length… but off the top, the only two I have major complaints about are the

Richard Pryor via The Quotations Page:

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, “I wanna grow up and be a critic.”

It strikes me in reading this quote that this is exactly the role that

Now that Bolton’s out onto the floor for a vote, I have some thoughts to add.

Look, let’s call this resistance to Bolton going to the UN what it is; A political game, called ‘stall and smear’… a game

The Telegraph has an article running, suggesting there’s new evdience that that total slimeball, George Galloway, the former Labour MP got tossed out of the Labour party, and…

… who started his own party, has denied fresh accusations from a

Dennis Miller needs a show, since CNBC is closing his current one.So says KJL.

Sad; the show was working in it’s own element. This is a failure of the left-wing cesspool that CNBC has become, not of Miller himself.

Ann Coulter:

“When they weren’t claiming the Iraq elections would not take place at all ? and, even if they did, the people wouldn’t participate – liberals were telling us that if we let those crazy Arabs vote, the

To my delight, Bainbridge gets in Conason’s face on Yalta and confirms portions of my previous posts on topic: (emph is mine)

As for Conason’s claim that only someone like “noted fabulist Ann Coulter” could have come up with President

Paul over at Power Line takes on Ed Whelan at NRO

In general, the Supreme Court has been getting more mileage than it deserves out of its decision in Brown. To its credit, the Supreme Court got on the right

JunkYardBlog slices up Josh Marshell for a double standard applied.

Two years ago Marshall believed that the US decision to leave eastern Europe in the USSR’s hands was a “great betrayal,” and that it was “shameful.” “Inevitable,” yes, but still

Slant Point says Ed Cox will run against Hillary Clinton in ’06.

Given my earlier post on Hillary, he may have an easier time of it than most.