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Weekly Fitness Blog Item

166 pounds, 33″ waist, an uptick of a pound from last week, girth stable, 50 pounds lighter than when I began my official diet last Thanksgiving.

In other weblogs: Michael Fumento continued to make fun of Rich Hailey and taunt “the blogosphere” on his weblog, Advise and Dissent, while claiming, somewhat amusingly, that his weblog […]

If Guns Are Outlawed . . .

From Riverbend’s blog, which you need to be reading even though she never musters quite the detachment that Salam Pax can:

The looting and killing of today has changed from the looting and killing in April. In April, it was quite random. Criminals were working alone. Now they’re more organized than the CPA (Coalition Provisional […]

Welcome to my Nightmare

What, asked Brecht, is the evil of a man who robs a bank compared to the evil of a man who founds a bank? Well, screw the old dead commie anyway. But let’s extend his principle a minute.

Yesterday’s car-bomb assassination in Najaf has provoked some interesting reactions. Jeanne d’Arc avers that the US is […]

Light-Blogging Friday

as it is Mrs. Offering’s birthday. I’ll be spending my day singing “Stacy’s Mom” with special feeling.

Read Eve’s homage to middlemen and her subsequent qualification.

Read Gene Healy on Josh Marshall’s interview with Peter “Holy War, Inc.” Bergen.

I Used to Be Disgusted

but now that John Smith is back at LincolnPlawg and following British “security” “policy” like a gumshoe on a wandering spouse, I am once again amused. Read everything.

Take That, Corporate Welfare Queens

Forbes reports that the Washington Redskins, who play in a stadium their owner built with his own money, are the NFL’s most valuable franchise. Number 4 on the list are the New England Patriots, whose owner declined a sweetheart stadium deal in Connecticut a couple of years ago because he felt like a crumb taking […]

Meanwhile . . .

Colby Cosh says libertarians and conservatives are natural allies. Agitator Man Group member Nicholas Weininger demurs.

Hasta La Vista, Southpaw?

The Whither Libertarians and the Republican Party? moves to Matthew Yglesias’ blog. I’m particularly interested in the reactions of the liberals in Matthew’s comments section.

1) Look. Guys. It’s not my place to tell you your business. But what a lot of us are saying is that libertarians are “in play” for the first time […]

Better Halves

Diana Moon and Jonathan “Head Heeb” Edelstein are debating the extent to which Howard Dean’s wife, Dr. Judith Steinberg Dean, will hurt his chances, with reference to this profile of Mrs. Dr. Dean (Mr. Dr. Dean is also an MD) that appeared in a recent Newsweek. See particularly the comments to Jonathan’s aside about Latin […]

Mine’s Bigger Than That

Via Crooked Timber comes NationMaster.com, “Where Stats Come Alive.” Looks very very cool.