Category: The Dish

David Horowitz unloads on Ron Paul and his supporters. It must be great to have a worldview like David’s that doesn’t have to respond in any way to, you know, actual events or facts.

High testosterone levels – if they don’t cause you to precipitate an early death doing this kind of thing – actually extend life, a new, large study finds.

Chilling reports from the trampled country:

"What has happened to all the monks?" Shari Villarosa, charge d’affaires at the U.S. Embassy in Yangon, was quoted as asking. "It’s frightening. Something has happened. It’s not like they all willingly left town."

The junta has taken over some monasteries for combat training. Arrests continue. As does Western investment. Round-up of recent news here.

Self-parody on the Streisand endorsement:

"They polled it. Among Democratic primary voters, even in places like Iowa, they love Barbra."

Press his paw and he says:

"In the name of Allah, the most Merciful, the most Kind".

Meanwhile, the British teacher who allowed her pupils to name a class teddy bear Muhammed has just been found guilty of "insulting the prophet." But no lashes: just two weeks in jail and deportation. (Not far off what some HIV-positive tourists can legitimately fear if they visit the US.) But don’t criticize Islam or you’ll be tarred as "phobic." So if we don’t blame Sudanese Muslims, who else is responsible? And at what point do the obscene "exceptions" of Islamic fanatics become legitimately seen as the rule?

Some fascinating and beautiful photography from Brazil by Dionisio Gonzalez. The trick:

[He] deftly documents the architectural disarrangement of shanty towns in Sao Paolo, Brazil by piecing together photos of the shanty towns themselves with photos of modern, geometric architecture that blend the clean and modern with the grungy and scattered.

More criticism here.

It looks more and more like one:

By the end of the primaries and heading into the summer, we could be looking at the collapse of the real estate market, which will have an impact upon homebuilders and suppliers, like Home Depot and Lowe’s … Whoever gets the nomination is going to be staring at a recession and a financial market running scared with safety and soundness issues. Citibank and J.P. Morgan could be facing insolvency, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as well.

Gulp. So what about this?

It’s the New Oxford American Dictionary’s preferred euphemism for "goddamned hippie." And it’s the word of the year!

From the entertaining annals of campaign desperation:

This just about sums it up:

Nothing about health care. Nothing about how long they plan to stay in Iraq. Nothing about the impending attack on Iran. Nothing about Middle East policy in general. Nothing about energy policy. Nothing about education. Nothing about the mortgage mess. And of course, nothing about how they would restore Constitutional law.

Not entirely fair: they did discuss Iraq briefly. I don’t think the absence of healthcare represents bias on the part of CNN, so much as a lack of interest in the GOP base. It’s clear to me that the two major issues for them are immigration and spending. In general, it felt like a debate from a party that expects to be in the wilderness for a while. And they sure deserve to be.