Yes, Swahili Sue, There Is A Santa Claus

What happens when you give Swahili Sue a generous grant of two thousand American? Sue, with the entrepreneurial spirit of her long-necked ancestors, is able to collect shiny pebbles, paying the kids of distant tribesmen sweatshop wages to gather shells (dead animals or bullet casings, either one), while her cousin, the one who owns the funky bodega (which he secretly runs a Nigerian email scam out of), sells her radiator wire from junked and burned out vehicles.

Sheehan Book Signing

Mother Sheehan’s book signing didn’t go as well as planned.

It’s amazing how fast 15 minutes really does feel. Check out the other photos and then look for the one Reuters decided to go with.
Via Instapundit

An Exit Strategy Timetable

Senator Russ Feingold has introduced a resolution calling for Bush to set a timetable and a list of goals and actions to begin exiting Iraq for good. From the website:
“I have introduced a resolution that calls on President Bush to define the mission of our military in Iraq, set a plan to accomplish that mission [...]

Ice, Ice, Discrimination Baby

Interested in the gender gap? Want to help contribute to its widening? Then head on over to Seattle, where University of Washington glaciaologist, Erin Pettit, leads an exclusionary expedition, made up solely of UW female high school students, to learn about glaciers and their geologic impact. Greg Piper notes that the rules of the program [...]

Putting the Kibosh on Free and Fair Elections…In Egypt?

The recent elections in Iraq heralded change, not only for Iraq, but for the entire Middle East. But should it be a blueprint, or merely a sketch for the future in other countries? Democracy for all nations is a noble goal (if somewhat lopsided one), but one wonders if some proponents for change would sacrifice [...]

Welcome Democracy

This is an historic day, of course. Just because it sounds trite doesn’t mean that it shouldn’t be said. Today is historic for a lot of reasons, most of which you probably won’t find in your copy of the New York Times.
Though the mainstream media isn’t making a huge deal of it, Iraqi democratic elections [...]

Out-Plamed

Piper has some valuable commentary on the long-forgotten former CIA agent Valerie Plame case, in which allegations of exposing her as a “covert” agent were lobbed against journalist Robert Novak, who wrote a story about her involvement with her husband Joseph Wilson’s trip to Niger to investigate tales of uranium yellowcake supposedly purchased by Saddam [...]

Dictat Shirts

Inspired by Dean Esmay’s Idi Button, I have put together some apparel which I will, if I may be so bold, be calling my “Dictat” line of shirts. Really, this is a simple idea, based upon the ever popular, yet convincingly bold “Che” shirts. Reimagined here as a simple black and white cutout on [...]

(Don’t) Blame Canada

Greg Piper is encouraged at Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin’s recent magnanimous attitude toward Bush and the United States, as am I. It’s always been a sore point with me that other nations and their citizens demand the USians pay proper respect to their country, be nice, diplomatic, et al, condemn us for our perceived [...]

Colin It Quits

Having been on somewhat of a blog and news hiatus for the last four days, my knowledge of Colin Powell’s resignation is limited to the following statement: “Colin Powell resigned.”
Powell struck me as a reluctant convert, and one who, as the months stretched into years, found himself further away from supporting (at least with any [...]