this IS war

Whatever affliction our allies have appears to be contagious.  Can’t anybody here play this game? Another tip from Drudge. Read more

Dan Gruben, one of the more dashing members of the infamous Beach-to-Bay Buddhas, is all checked out in C-17s and flying in the sandbox.  Here’s photographic evidence: A bonfire, visible from earth orbit, will be lit in Dan’s honor at this year’s post-race beach party.  Send fan mail to djgruben (at) yahoo.com. Read more

A band of pathetic sissies calling themselves the Central City Business Association in Christchurch, New Zealand, thinks they can use Barry Manilow music to reduce their problems with mallrats who "regularly spread rubbish, spray graffiti, get intoxicated, use drugs, swear and intimidate patrons at the outdoor mall." I would suggest something more direct: regular security Read more

These guys have the entire Atlantic Ocean to putter around in, and they run into each other.  Admiral Nelson is spinning in his grave.   Tip from Drudge. Read more

…you refine heroin for a living, but have a moral objection to beer. It accelerates from there.  Read more

Melanie Phillips won’t win many friends for saying this:  One of the most agonising and tragic aspects of the current global wave of Jew-hatred is the prominent part played in this by Jews. This is not a new phenomenon. Throughout the centuries of Jewish persecution, from the medieval ‘conversos’ to Karl Marx and beyond, there Read more

Jay Nordlinger has been writing a lot lately about the absence of any "safe zones" in public life–artists who spoil their performances by mouthing off with some political inanity.  Glenn Reynolds offers a Lawyer’s Remedy: WHEN THIS HAPPENS, boo loudly. Then buttonhole them unpleasantly later and complain about “insensitivity.” Don’t worry what they think about Read more

Richard at the EU Referendum posts this hilarious 21st-Century update to Calvin Cooldige’s Revenge. [footnote 5]Tip from Iain Murray at The Corner. Read more

It shouldn’t take a massacre to teach us how noble some people of faith are.  I’d never even heard of the Lubavichers.  May Rabbi Holtzberg and his wife be avenged, and God rest their souls. Tips from The Instapundit and American Digest.Update (29 November).  All that is required for evil to triumph is for good Read more

The Somali Pirates have struck again, this time hijacking an Iranian grain shipment.  Of course, the US and Royal Navy patrols are powerless, just as they were when the Saudi-owned supertanker Sirius Star was taken a few days ago.  Limited area of operations and restrictive rules of engagement, don’t ya know.  Gee fellas, the High Read more