I’ve managed to coerce my colleague Brooke to convert her satiriffic daily news digest email into the highly superior blog form, so that all the children of the world may share in it. Check it.

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Two world leaders sing a song of love.

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Some of you may be familiar with the Capitalist Chicks website—but the original capitalist chicks were three women who, sixty years ago, launched the modern libertarian movement. Check it out.

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Looks like Salam Pax is OK. Some of us were worried this weekend; glad to see he hasn’t been marked up as one more instance of “collateral damage.”

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One of Insty’s most tedious and grating tropes of late has been to mention one of the many atrocities carried out by Saddam Hussein or another of our enemies and then ask when those darn peaceniks are going to rise up in protest, since they’re so eager to demonstrate against the American government’s misdeeds. I […]

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I haven’t posted on the war because, so far, I don’t have much to say. We lost. Most of the world’s popualtion was against it, and we squeaked out majority support here mostly because folks apparently still wrongly believe there were Iraqis on the 9/11 planes. But it happened anyway, and now there’s not much […]

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CNN reports that the FBI has located and recovered an extraordiarily valuable copy of the Bill of Rights, one of fourteen commissioned by George Washington. Now we just have to cross our fingers and hope that maybe someone at the FBI will happen to read it…

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Amid all the war news, non-D.C. residents may have missed the story of a farmer who drove a tractor into the pond on the Mall, clogging traffic and creating a standoff with police. (He claims to have explosives.) So far it’s a mystery precisely what’s going on, according to the Post. Well, it shouldn’t be […]

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Via Matthew Yglesias, I learn that the judge in the Jose Padilla case has based his decision on Padilla’s right to counsel in part on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The key point is Wittgenstein’s distinction between “interpreting” a rule and merely “grasping” it. Rule following cannot just be a matter of interpretation, he argued, […]

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John J. Miller cites with approval his children’s remarks on last night’s speech: My favorite lines weren’t uttered by the president, but by my kids. Just as the speech was beginning, my three-year-old daughter informed me that “The president man has to catch some bad guys.” She apparently thinks George Bush is some kind of […]

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