Hardly Ineffable

Reports the Telegraph (UK):

Thank goodness for Vice President Joe Biden. In one of the few amusing parts of the Wanda Sykes comedy routine at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner, she said: “God forbid that Joe Biden falls into the hands of terrorists….We’re done. Oh, they won’t even have to torture him. All they have to do [...]

An Ode to Lando [...]

Christopher Hitchens in Beirut

“I’m fine, I think,” Christopher said.

He seemed to be in pretty good spirits, all things considered.

“The SSNP,” I said, “is the last party you want to mess with in Lebanon. I’m sorry I didn’t warn you properly. This is partly my fault.”

“I appreciate that,” Christopher said. “But I would have done it anyway. [...]

Wait, there are dangerous people in Guantanamo?!

As the Bush administration enters its final months with no apparent plan to close the Guantánamo Bay camp, an extensive review of the government’s military tribunal files suggests that dozens of the roughly 255 prisoners remaining in detention are said by military and intelligence agencies to have been captured with [...]

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and I’m not talking about how they elected Jimmy Carter as governor.  I’m talking about the [...]

Lesson 1:
Mark Twain on James Fenimore Cooper

Lesson 2:
Martin Luther [...]

Ok, so I’m a few days late.  But here we have it:

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and [...]