“We’ve got a lot–but we haven’t got everything. I want what she’s got. All of it. I want her house, her name, her man. And I want them now. Tonight.” –Hazel Brooks to Don Ameche, “Sleep, My Love” Read more

“ISRAEL OUT OF THE UNITED STATES”: Two more reports on the weekend’s protests, from The American Prospect. (The first report focuses on the Jew-hate to be found at the rally; the second is basically pro-rally, morally nebulous [how is it “extremist” to call Yasser Arafat a terrorist??], and kind of pointless. The author acts like the rally will have no political oomph because “the Israel lobby” controls Congress. Obviously the US Congress is pro-Israel, but the rally will have no... Read more

RUSSO’S REPUBLIC on our mini-counterprotest. Read more

“HOW CAN I MOURN WHAT I DON’T BELIEVE EXISTED?”: A sad story on mourning a miscarriage in Buddhist Japan, from the NYT Magazine. Read more

“HEY, MR. BARRY, ARRRHHH…”: Dude, that drunk guy was about as clear-headed as Marion “Can’t Stop the Rock” Barry in this NYT Mag interview. Could he get re-elected today? I wouldn’t bet against it. Resentment is a powerful thing. Sigh, groan, mutter. Anyway, the interview is funny, in a sick way. Read more

UPDATES ON WEEKEND PROTESTS: 1) Apparently a Hezbollah flag was also waved in front of the White House. Compare this picture with this one. Cute, no? 2) Yesterday, I couldn’t remember which posters our “All suicide bombers are terrorists!” poster was responding to. Fortunately, either CNN or the Washington Post saw the same signs we did. It was “A suicide bomber is a poor man’s F-16.” Ugh. Read more

I watch your blogs and all at once the sparks go flying… James Haney: Excellent, must-read post comparing Palestine and Northern Ireland, from the 1970s to the present. Emily Stimpson: “Bad priests, rotting in the dungheap of an unchaste life…” Words of wisdom from the past. Unqualified Offerings: Good post on all the bloggers who are deciding to blog no more. VodkaPundit: Again with the libertarian shoes!!! Emmy‘s too much of a trad to be the libertarian-thigh-boots poster girl, but... Read more

“She’s got something on her conscience, but what woman hasn’t?” –Raymond Massey about Joan Bennett, “The Woman in the Window” Read more

“O LOVING MADMAN! Was it not enough for Thee to become incarnate, that Thou must also die?” That’s my St. Anselm quote on his feast day. Here’s Emily Stimpson’s. Read more

For there are brighter sides to blogs And I should know, because I’ve watched them But not often … Brink Lindsey: Alaska is the new Venezuela. Geoffrey Nunberg: Yet more on lack of (a certain kind of) media bias. And Zonitics promises a response at some future point. Dave Tepper: Atlas Shrugged (Dance Remix). This is what I was talking about in that last post… Read more