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Did you know that you’re “independent of reality”?

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

It always amazes me when AP still pretends it’s a news outlet, rather than an anti-American propaganda machine. How’s this for an article: Do you believe in Iraqi “WMD”? Did Saddam Hussein’s government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll

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Iraq, Media matters
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Proportionate cartoon

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

Check out the Michael Ramirez cartoon Anna found and highlighted on her blog.  It demonstrates again that, in vile and ridiculous times, only cartoons are really up to the challenge of exposing just how vile and ridiculous the times really are.  Anna’s comment also nails the world’s obsession with small

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Bits and Pieces
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Reuters caught cheating

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

I almost decided not to blog about this, because it’s getting attention everywhere, and then I thought, well, just in case you haven’t been everywhere first: Thanks to Charles Johnson’s tireless efforts, another false document has been exposed — this time a doctored Reutered photograph purporting to show Israeli missile

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Media matters
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Little girls are made from sugar and spice….

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

I distinctly remember the laughs ordinary people had decades ago when a Harvard study for the then ridiculously high sum of $50,000 established that mother’s milk is good for babies. I had the same “duh” feeling when I read that a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist has written a book, based on

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Education, Feminism
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New look

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

Yup, it’s still me.  It didn’t look as if WordPress was going to be able to deal with the block quotation problem any time soon, so I switched templates.  I’m not sure I like this one yet, but I’m sure I’ll get used to it — and you won’t have

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Bits and Pieces
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More on Mel’s lighter side

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

Got another email: Bush Awards Gibson Presidential Medal of Freedom President: ‘Thanks for Taking the Heat off Me This Week’ In a stunning moment of redemption for the embattled actor Mel Gibson, President George W. Bush today awarded him the Presidential Medal of Freedom, telling the star, “Thanks for taking

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Silly Stuff
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He Who Must Not Be Named

Posted on August 6, 2006 by Bookworm

As you know, I’ve written before about the underlying conservative truths in the most popular pop culture products of recent times: Harry Potter, the Ring Trilogy and Narnia. While listening today to Mark Steyn’s brilliant interview with Hugh Hewitt last Thursday, August 3, I was reminded again of how true

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Media matters, Muslim violence
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What will it take before the UN kicks Iran out?

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Bookworm

Let’s see.  In the last week, Iran, an UN member nation, has (once again, ’cause it’s done it before) called for the destruction of Israel, another UN member nation.  Now, Iran, an UN member nation (although God alone knows why) admits that it is supplying long range missiles to a

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Iran, Israel, United Nations
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Hezbollah, be careful what you wish for

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Bookworm

With Qana, which is beginning to look remarkably like a staged event, not an Israeli massacre of children, Hezbollah managed to switch wavering world sympathy to its side (not too hard a task, considering world hostility to Israel).  Lee Smith, writing for the Week Standard, suggests that Hezbollah might have

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Hezbollah, Israel
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And Mussolini made the trains run on time

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Bookworm

When countries are in decay, whether because of self-inflicted economic wounds or because of external factors, something is always better than nothing. Hitler, in part because of his rampant spending on weapons, was billed as having saved the German economy. Mussolini was touted for having gotten Italy’s famously flakey trains

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Hezbollah
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Arabs killing Arabs — where’s the outcry?

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Bookworm

Hezbollah claimed some more Arab lives, this time killing three Bedouin women from one family: Residents of Arab al-Aramshe find it difficult to comprehend disaster in which mother, her two daughters were killed as Katyusha rocket hit their house yard. One of daughter recently got engaged. ‘We can’t believe we

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Hezbollah, Israel, Media matters, War crimes
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$%*# toe!

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Bookworm

In June, my daughter crashed into me while wearing cleats and ripped off half my toenail. I refrained from fainting, and did a post wondering why my vasovagal syndrome is so much more profound when I hurt a toe than when I hurt any other part of me. Today, I

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Bits and Pieces
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Hezbollah Rights Watch

Posted on August 5, 2006 by Bookworm

In a comment to one of my posts, someone suggested that there is proof positive that Israel is the bad guy in all this — Human Rights Watch has condemned it. Clearly, when an organization dedicated to watching out for Human Rights condemns Israel, Israel must be at fault, right?

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Israel
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Pot, meet kettle

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Bookworm

I’m still wondering when the NY Times will admit in its masthead that it’s the official newspaper of the Democratic party. Anyway, today’s partisan attack is a scathing denunciation of Donald Rumsfeld. It wouldn’t be notable in any way — just another day in the NY Times’ party warfare —

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Media matters
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Psych Ops

Posted on August 4, 2006 by Bookworm

Visit this PowerLine post to see a video that the Israelis periodically manage to get hacked into Lebanese TV.  I know American soldiers would love to see something like this done in Iraq against Al Qaeda and Co., but we’re too PC.  As John, at PowerLine says, he’s not sure

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Hezbollah, Israel
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