Most idiots are caught trying to break out of prison. Here’s one sorry idiot who was busted breaking in, as reported by Der Spiegel: Prison walls were no obstacle for a man in western Germany who was being separated from his love. But breaking into her cell every night turned out to be a... »
Archive for February 22nd, 2010
Buh-Bayh
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
Here’s one more gem from James Taranto’s Best of the Web Today: See if you can guess the topic of the New York Times op-ed piece whose first paragraph is this: Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper historical... »
Obama’s Racket
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
James Taranto wrote such a great piece in today’s Best of the Web Today, that I simply have to include the entire section that I found so appealing here: “Audiences Hate Modern Classical Music Because Their Brains Cannot Cope”: an arresting headline from London’s Sunday Telegraph. This is the argument of a new book,... »

I previously posted about the latest rash of scandalous photos coming out of Afghanistan showing U.S. military atrocities under Obama’s command, and wondering if the media would pick up on it the way they did when it was Bush’s army… Well, here’s a twist I wasn’t expecting: yes, one of the U.S. media, Rolling Stone, [...]
Jeffrey Goldberg, a correspondent for the Atlantic, cast a spotlight on yet another disgustingly overt example of pure bias in the mainstream media, particularly at the anti-Semitic Reuters newswire. He points to a Reuters news item which contains the following despicable sentences: Police said it was a “terrorist attack” — Israel’s term for a Palestinian [...]
In the [sparse] reporting of the Palestinians’ massacre of the Fogel family, several newspapers stand out with their distorted sense of “balance”, i.e., where they feel overwhelmingly uncomfortable describing the barbarity of the Palestinians without at least taking a swipe or two at the Israelis, no matter how patently irrelevant or disgustingly disrespectful it comes [...]