So, as I was leaving on Friday, this story was breaking: Mohammed Reza Taheri-azar, 22, deliberately drove a rented Jeep Cherokee into the Pit area outside the Student Union, hitting nine people just before noon, police say. Six people suffered minor injuries; three others declined to be treated. He’s mad at America. He’s mad at this cartoon. Whatever. He said he wanted to kill people, that he was trying to kill people and that had he done the job right,... Read more
Funny the stuff you miss when you go away and come back. You scan the headlines and it’s all Oscars, Oscars, Oscars and so forth, but no one is talking about Iran getting caught shipping IED’s into Iraq. Seems like that should be a big story, doesn’t it? Iran trying to kill our guys and foment terror over there, I mean? Read more
Near as I can tell, I missed the Oscars, but even the dresses didn’t seem that exciting to me, so I guess I didn’t miss much except that it’s hard out there for a pimp, or something! My email box is very full – I’m sure whatever I missed is in there, but please understand if you don’t hear back from me for a while. The retreat did not inspire any funny stories like the last one. Yes, there was... Read more
…a rather hastily arranged retreat, too. The last time I went on a hastily arranged retreat this is how it went. This time, it being Lent, I expect the other retreatants there will be a quieter bunch. But one never knows, do one? I have a lot of emails from people wondering why I have not linked to Michael Totten’s story about Saddam’s awful chambers – sorry, I have been busy and out all afternoon. It certainly deserves wide dissemination.... Read more
And when she does know something, she forgets it. That’s our Hillary. She didn’t KNOW Bill was a fan of the UAE! Dang that lovable old Bill, he’s always keeping secrets from her! They are triangulation experts but at what point will they start throwing each other under the buses? Although – and this is sad, but true – as former presidents or co-presidents go, these two are still better than this bitter, spiteful and horrifically needful man. Oh, I... Read more
Julie’s daughter has a priest who needs some tellin’ to. Laura Lee has issues with John Zogby and his %$#! poll! David Gregory calls into Imus, apparently in his cups. A Rovian plot? Stay tuned! How doth they lie to you? Let Gateway Pundit count the ways! He also has a followup on the mysterious issue of where, exactly, the WaPo got its numbers from. I don’t like to pile on, but yet another editor has issues with truthfulness in... Read more
I recall reading about these trucks going into Syria with WMD ‘way back in 2002. If everyone knows this, why is nothing done? I don’t pretend to know. But it’s pretty interesting. H/T Kobayashi who has a few thoughts on dissolving people in vats of acid. And read Wretchard’s report on “passing faces”. Read more
This gentleman does it with ease as only a fellow in his situation, perhaps, can. H/T Dr. Sanity Read more
As I write this I am looking at a most beautiful view. Through four long casement windows fixed with opened blinds, I am watching fat snowflakes descend straight down with a pretty, almost stage-effected uniformity. The branches of the white maple tree are long and low and covered with white. They convey a sense of solitude, but not loneliness; the vertical branches look like prayerful arms raised in supplication. Everything is brown and white, with just a touch of green... Read more
Yes, I think for Lent, I will join Peggy Noonan in this endeavor. When I see teenage suburban girls talking like 7th Avenue streetwalkers while they flick their cigarettes, I will say it. When I hear my feminist friend railing at the unfairness of a biology that forces women to menstruate, but not men, I will say it. When I hear a priest change the liturgy to suit his ego or his ideology, I will say it. When I see... Read more
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