Jeff Goldstein –

“Here’s how you know your politics have pitched a bit to the right: you’re enjoying a plate of Gino’s Pizza Rolls, watching an early episode of “M*A*S*H,” when suddenly you realize that just about everything Larry Linville says makes sense — and that, given the opportunity, you’d happily bend Alan Alda over a butcher’s table and thwack his self-satisfied ass about a thousand times with a rolled up poster of Douglas MacArthur.”

If Protein Wisdom isn’t on your daily read-list, it should be.

The Commissar has a new map up.

After a brief hiatus, Reynolds is making up for it with a blogging binge, even by his prolific standards. As usual some good links provided – but this from his reader mail caught my eye. It illustrates why the blogosphere has taken off as a source for news and opinion for those of us who have been complaining of the uneven coverage and spin of news reporting.

“I realize you generally assume that the vast majority of reporters are praying to their pagan gods for our failure in Iraq and the war against terrorism (I am not one of them), and are now crafting their stories to reflect and facilitate such a thing. While I think you are dead wrong on this, I have to admit I was taken aback by a conversation I had recently with a colleague.
I work as a freelancer for a major national publication, and was talking to my editor as we were closing a piece last week. It was Thursday, and the reports were coming out of Pakistan that we might have Ayman al-Zawahiri surrounded. I passed this news on to the editor, who was crestfallen: “Oh, no. I don’t want anything good to happen for Bush before the election,” was the reaction (P.S., this editor does not edit foreign or political stories).
It was a sickening moment. This is a man responsible for thousands of American deaths. So while I have no desire to see Bush re-elected, and I disagree with our attack on Iraq, to hope for our failure in capturing one of the deadliest people in the world is a moral blindspot.”

Question is, how could someone in the profession be so unaware of the fact that there is a problem of anti-Republican/conservative bias in the media, when we news end-users figured it out during the Reagan administration?

Small Dead Animals has been hauled before theBlog Firing Squad at the Politboru Diktat.
This part is true, at least.

Comrades, ordinarily, Politburo could sentence reactionary like Small Dead Kate to Siberia, but since she lives in Saskatchewan, she may not notice difference.

I meant to do put this link up this morning, but ran out of time before I had to go to town. Lileks comments on the peace hate protests this weekend.

Imagine if you woke from an operation and discovered that your tumor was gone. You’d think: I suppose that’s a good thing. But. You learned that the hospital might profit from the operation. You learned that the doctor who made the diagnosis had decided to ignore all the other doctors who believed the tumor could be discouraged if everyone protested the tumor in the strongest possible terms, and urged the tumor to relent. How would you feel? You’d be mad. You’d look up at the ceiling of your room and nurse your fury until you came to truly hate that butcher. And when he came by to see how you were doing, you’d have only one logical, sensible thing to say: YOU TOOK IT OUT FOR THE WRONG REASONS. PUT IT BACK!

Paul Wolfowitz has an op-ed in the that quotes another Iraqi blogger.

AFTER the horrific March 2 bombing that killed 170 at Shi’a shrines in Baghdad and Karbala, one Iraqi had an answer for those in the West who wonder if such tactics can work. His words speak to the horror of the events in Spain last week and in Baghdad on Wednesday.
His name is Ali and his Web log said this about the terrorists and their allies: “They are spitting in the face of the wind.”
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Ali, the Iraqi blogger, put such attacks into a larger perspective: “Some people still wonder what would be the relation between the liberation of Iraq and [the] war on terrorism. I think that the fact that nearly all the terrorists are gathered on our land to fight so fiercely should be more than enough explanation.” He added: “We are . . . showing [other Arabs] what they can achieve once they are free . . . I see these evil powers show their true and ugly face and play their last card – surer than ever that we are winning.”

You can read Ali’s blog here.

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The Commissar has tracked down another subversive capitalist masquerading as blogger – Laughing Wolf

From China, this cautionary tale…

A computer game addict in western China collapsed and died at his screen after playing the popular online game Saga non-stop for 20 hours, a news report said today.
The 31-year-old began playing the game regularly at an internet cafe in Chengdu, Sichuan province, three months before his death, according to the South China Morning Post.
An employee at the cafe said he would play for more than 10 hours a day and was found dead on Saturday morning after a marathon 20-hour session, the newspaper said.

Dog show weekend, so activity here will be light. Go check out some of the folks on my blogroll.

Wizbang has a new photoshop contest. It promises to be fun.
update: My entry

John Kerry: The first haughty French-looking heiress President