Orbiting the apocalypse: "But the El Dorado wasn't there; and the really big historical question is why it took the best minds of the West more than 50 years and countless lives to discover that elementary fact. This monumental self-hypnosis calls into question our collective ability to know; and when politicians and media talking heads speak with perfect assurance about "religions of peace" or alternatively, about a "death cult" with bloody borders, how certain are we that our epistemology is any better than that of the 20th century intellectuals?"

A testable argument. I hope he's right.

Did I forget to mention that the largest scandal in history just keeps rolling along?

Comment of the Day

This comment on LGF pretty much says it all about what deep stuff Britain is in regarding shutting down the preachers of hate as a helpful prerequisite to stopping the slaughter:

#122 Harry Flashman 8/5/2005 09:10PM PDT
Everyone who is getting excited here should relax, there's not a hope in hell of getting this through, this is just a case of Tony talking the talk but he won't walk the walk. For a start there is no need for new legislation, the statute books are coming down with existing laws which are simply never used. The reason for this is that the UK signed up to the European Human Rights Code, as soon as a copper tries nicking some imam or mullah he'll be hauled before the courts and get a good kicking for abusing the suspects human rights. The suspect can also accept a large dollop of British tax payer's loot by way of compensation. So who signed up for this insane Human Rights nonsense? Oh that's right, The Right Honourable Mr Anthony Blair PM, and who is the leading Human Rights lawyer in the UK who is usually bringing these cases to the courts? Why it's none other than Ms Cherie Booth (Blair) QC, his lovely wife!

Dream on guys.

WHOOPS! Don't think about this too hard or your head will explode!

They're less inclined to connect to the network and more inclined to blow it up...

Here's something else.

Fishing for blowback -- and how... (HT Drudge)

We can't be at war with Iran dept. They're champions of women's rights and civil discourse, don't you know...

The hard choices of war. (And keep scrolling for the prelude.)

About those ends justifying the means: "And it's very important to investigate every aspect of a prospective Supreme Court justice's life. After all, he may threaten the right to privacy!"

BUSTED.

Those front-page editorials...

Blackout-ron.

Watch for the MSM to furiously stomp this down the MSMemoryHole...

Could it be that bribery has failed them? What would the old man say?

An Intellectual Dynasty?

My Mom never tires of telling people that she went to high school with Arlene Dart -- the mother of Linda Evans of Dynasty fame. Imagine my surprise then when Drudge posts this critique of British society from Joan Collins. Not an intellectual tour-de-force but not exactly the soap opera fluff I was expecting as I read out of morbid curiosity...

11 Cuckoos in 1.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali points out the ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM once again. Go girl...

A moderate. Jihad, that is...

"But it's not their kind of story."

D. N. C. ... Does Not Compute.

Apocalypse sooner I suspect... but for peaceful purposes only of course. I repeat: the "moderate" loser of the recent Iranian ballot-stuffing festival has openly talked about nuking Israel. And did I forget to mention that all of their public references to us begin with "The Great Satan"?

WHOOPS!

Air Enron today. (HT Power Line)

Or perhaps the real demos' votes weren't counted by the mullahs...

(Don't get me wrong Lee, I love most of your work!)

"... if you think Islamism is entirely unrelated to Islam, you will die of political correctness."

On not distinguishing between them...

What day can go by without a nadagate outing?

Shhhh! This economist doesn't exist. Not even on Fox...

Taking on Mabel. Is verboten.

An axial foci for captive minds. Anybody interested?

Today's (Subliminal) Reuters Headline Review

• Italian, U.K. police interrogate torture little old lady bomb suspects
• Iran says it will resume nuclear work Monday and it's all Chimpy's fault
• That incompetent NASA investigating possible almost certainly disastrous shuttle problem -- why are we wasting all this money on space when it could better be used to create more dependency and Democratic votes?
• Bush seen lagging on second term goals D'oh
• Ex-chief of European Central Bank found dead Probably knocked off by the evil McHitler stooge competitor Greenspan
• U.S. Army studying lead-free 'green' bullet which turns out not to be an improvement but we don't want anyone to know and readers are too stoopid to read beyond the headlines anyway...
• Boggs, Sandberg enter Baseball Hall of Fame What's baseball?