Cliff May at the Corner links today to a piece by Bill Moyers which he bills as "a howl of anger and despair from the embattled left about the crazy, religious zealots who, Bill & Co. are convinced, a

Here's a really weird story from the Washington Post (rr):

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil - Sporting a red shirt embossed with a picture of the revolutionary Che Guevera, Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez receiv

Oliver Willis:

You know, I really wish Iraq were having an honest, safe, real election. But that isn't happening, and that's a shame. Even if you were and are opposed to this war, as I am, you woul

Some of the left wing blogosphere is going on about the Bush administration's recent suggestion that we don't call those hypothetical Social Security accounts "private accounts" but rather "personal a

It's early in the unravelling, but this appears really trashy (via Glenn):

In 2002, syndicated columnist Maggie Gallagher repeatedly defended President Bush's push for a $300 million initiative enc

Oscar noms have been released. Some are making a big deal about Michael Moore being shut out. But the real contest for that movie took place on November 2. It lost that race, which makes anything else

News blast from the AFP:

LONDON (AFP) - Global warming is reaching the point-of-no-return, with widespread drought, crop failure and water shortages the likely result, according to a new internatio

Johnny Carson died today. It was my obsession for many years to secretly (or not-so-secretly, my parents not being stupid) stay up late in order to watch the Maestro do his thing. Now that is wild. I

Every 200,000 years or so, the earth undergoes a magnetic polar inversion in which the north and south magnetic poles switch. Magnetic north becomes weak and diffuse for a few decades or centuries and

So what's the deal with Fox's report on Michael Moore's bodyguard? Is it true or not?

The bodyguard's employer, Gavin de Becker & Associates, wrote to Moorewatch and had this to say, among other th

I added a new feature to the blogstead. It's the Hot List- yet another aggregation of what's being widely linked to in the 'sphere. You'll find it in the sidebar, conveniently labelled "Hot List".

Glenn's linked to this, so everyone knows about it already.

NEW YORK — Filmmaker Michael Moore's bodyguard was arrested for carrying an unlicensed weapon in New York's JFK airport Wednesday n

Here's a ramp up in the arms race between comment spammers and blogs/search engines that I think will help a lot:

Three major search engines have partnered with blog software developers to combat s

Since so many have been eagerly awaiting my take on this ugly Prince Harry and the Swastika business, I feel I must, under protest, offer my viewpoint. (What a load.)

My point is this, and it is mi

There are so many charges flying around the blogosphere and the larger mediasphere these days that it's difficult to know exactly what's going on or who is the most to blame. Well never fear reader fo

Maybe I'm being too argumentative here (I can be quite contrary), but Tim Blair posts this:

John Quiggin's dollar-per-comment tsunami aid drive (mentioned earlier here) has so far raised an insuffi

To me, the worst part of the CBS scandal is not the original story, as problematic as that obviously was. The worst part was the "aftermath", as the Thornburgh/Boccardi report calls it.

60 Minutes

This is stupid:

RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - Wardrobe malfunction or fashion statement? That's what Brazilians were left wondering Thursday, a day after top model Naomi Campbell paraded with her breast

News blast from the AP:

LONDON - U.S.-led troops using the ancient Iraqi city of Babylon as a base have damaged and contaminated artifacts dating back thousands of years in one of the world's most

CBS has released the long-awaited "weeks, not months" Thornburgh/Boccardi report. Without attachments, it's a whopping 234 pages. Download it here, in pdf.

I don't know that I'll get around to read

Tim Blair's getting a real job at long last. It's about time, the bum. I imagine hanging out on the beach with a laptop all day and no reason to get up early every morning has finally taken its toll o

Caught Hitchens on Dennis Miller's show last night. Dennis Miller is like that all the time apparently.

It was too short a segment of course, and more of the same, if you follow Christopher Hitchen

I want to use this post to thank Environmental Republican for his kind words about your humble blogger. Also Getting My Mind Right, BUFFALOg, Think Sink, and of course, Michael J. Totten for linking t

Glenn links to a post about how to blog wherein blogger Joe Carter mentions being InstaSnubbed on one occasion months back. Joe originally reported the details of the snub here. Basically he's complai

The upshot of this piece by Corey Pein in the Columbia Journalism Review (via Wizbang) is that the blogosphere did a very messy job in uncovering the Bush memo forgeries and that the MSM should be fau

Here are some interesting factoids, courtesy PC World, from something called The Pew Internet & American Life Project:

Blog readership jumped 58 percent between February and November, and comprised

As I had anticipated, the left and their media apparatus are doing their best to pin the Indian Ocean deaths on the US. An announced US congessional investigation into the post-earthquake activities o

Here's a good set of New Year's Resolutions from Zeydoun at Kuwait Unplugged.

NO BLOGGING AT WORK! That includes updating mine and checking others.A decent, toned body by May.. in time for summer.R

(Apologies to the late and misguided Susan Sontag.) Polly Toynbee's got this atrocious thing in the Guardian, already well-linked to. I won't go into the bits that everyone else is taking on, as they'