Went to the beer distributor last night before band practice with Mike, the lead guitarist, who walked up to the counter and asked for a 12-pack of Yuengling.
Mike is from Delaware, where they have normal liquor laws.

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In a report now being heavily hyped by Drudge, MSNBC investigative reporter Bill Dedman has a series of stories up about how newsroom reporters across the country give - “quietly” - to political candidates. And the vast majority of the ones he tracked have given to Democrats; by a margin of about 9 to 1, […]

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There was an American air strike on a suspected al Qaeda sanctuary in Afghanistan earlier this week in which seven children were killed. It’s the kind of thing that happens in war, but there is a strategic aspect to such mishaps as well; the best way to lose hearts and minds is to have children’s […]

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I don’t know whether to be amused or horrified that Ann Coulter’s mug shows up periodically in the ads below.

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Par for the course department: Guess how many of the 200 foreign service officers in our U.S. embassy in Baghdad actually speak Arabic?
Half? Maybe 75? Surely it wouldn’t be below 50, right?
Try 10. And some of them, not real well.

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By virtually all accounts, Gen. David Petraeus, who’s riding herd over the “surge” in Iraq, is beyond competent, the guy who needs to be there and should have been there earlier. But this is more than slightly disturbing, an interview he gave to the Times of London in which he seems to say that all […]

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This is unbelievable. Both Fox and CBS have rejected an advertisement for Trojan condoms, specifically because the ad in question suggests condoms can and should be used to prevent unwanted pregnancy:
Both had accepted Trojan’s previous campaign, which urged condom use because of the possibility that a partner might be H.I.V.-positive, perhaps unknowingly. A 2001 report […]

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Look, I realize there’s a belief - or a hope - out there amongst conservatives that reports of their demise are greatly exaggerated. Yes, the Leader’s poll numbers are mired in Carter terroritory; yes, Iraq is a complete mess, and there appears to be no way out; sure, the populist Limbaugh wing of the party […]

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Interesting to see that the official mouthpiece of the Grand Old Party is made nervous by blogs.
If you missed it, there was a conference in D.C. this week called “Take Back America 2007″; it was a liberal confab, and so speakers ranged from Hillary Clinton (who was booed) to Jason Alexander (George!) and, appropriately, virtually […]

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Mitt Romney, the most odiferous Republican in the race.

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I like it, he’d run as a centrist and has already unleashed some appropriately blistering criticism of the current crop of presidential candidates. This race is going to be more interesting than anyone thought…

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James Howard Kunstler puts it pretty well:
 The air waves and internet sites are full of blather now about ending the “war” and bringing the troops home. The presidential candidates are agonizing over their various positions on the Iraq adventure. I’d like to hear one of them tell me how Atlanta is going to function without […]

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Well, I suppose this comes as no surprise. The top three Democratic presidential candidates today all admitted that sure, they’re opposed to the way the war in Iraq was handled - but it’s not like they’re going to pull out or anything.
Hillary, John Edwards and Barack Obama all talked about reducing the number of combat troops. But […]

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And while we’re on the subject of kids - and I suppose I haven’t been contentious enough yet today - I was struck by a line in this item from Ross Douthat, who is probabably one of my favorite conservative writers (in that he’s not of the conservative movement, and is thus apt to wander “off the […]

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Just wrapped up a three-minute phone interview for Fox News (!) on the Haines murder. National attention continues to focus on this - the CrimeBlog thread, if anything, has heated up since the arrest was announced; indeed, I’d link, but CrimeBlog seems to be down, “has exceeded its CPU quota” - which also happened Saturday night, […]

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We’d heard that Alec Kreider was going to be arrested about 5 p.m. Saturday. But we were asked to hold off on interviewing neighbors until the actual arrest happened - some of them, we were told, were assisting with the case, providing the cops with information, and there was concern that if we swooped in […]

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Burned out. Busy Saturday. More later.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H4s44tEufOs

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Posting light/non-existent today. Something big in the works…

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Michael Kinsley on the “quiet gay revolution“:
On no issue is history moving faster than on “gay rights”–an already antiquated term for full and equal participation and acceptance of gay men and women in American life. The work is not finished, of course, but what took black Americans more than a century, gays have accomplished in […]

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Lessee, I’ll visit this blog 20 times today and write in every one of the threads how much I hate him.
Some of the threads will run to 80+ comments, and the traffic will boost the sitemeter big time.
Then Lancaster Newspapers will pull his blog because it’s such a failure!

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