Category: The Dish

What a desperate little jibe. It is perfectly obvious from the post in question that I am not blaming the Brits for being captured by Iran. I blame Iran. It is also perfectly obvious that this blog has long exposed and decried the religious dictatorship in Iran. My point is that if the British soldiers are treated inhumanely in captivity, the United States no longer has any high ground morally to complain. This president, by authorizing torture, detaining innocents for years, outsourcing the torture of others to vicious regimes, and lying about all of it has made the lives of all American and allied servicemembers that much more dangerous. K-Lo knows that. Hence the swipe. It distracts from the truth.

Of the Catholic variety. Here’s Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, head of the Vatican permanent observer mission of the Holy See to the U.N.:

"One cannot consider the ridicule of the sacred as a right of freedom…respect of the rights and dignity of others should mark the limit of any right, even that of the free expression and manifestation of one’s opinions, religious ones included."

Another D’Souza fan. (Hat tip: Andrew.)

Stuart Rothenberg has some advice for the Democrats. It makes a good deal of sense to me.

Several, actually. Money quote:

Quantum mechanics is the girl you meet at the poetry reading. Everyone thinks she’s really interesting and people you don’t know are obsessed about her. You go out. It turns out that she’s pretty complicated and has some issues. Later, after you’ve broken up, you wonder if her aura of mystery is actually just confusion.

Virginia Postrel raised the question here. Others joined the debate here.

It seems as if some in the military have taken Peter Pace’s recent remarks on homosexuality and run with them.

A Somali soldier made prisoner by the Islamist militia is pictured as he waits to be released 26 March 2007 in Mogadishu, Somalia. Somalia’s powerful Hawiye clan on Monday released government forces captured during bloody clashes last week as the Somali government sought dialogue with the clan in a bid to pacify Mogadishu. Photo by Jose Cendon/AFP/Getty.

Not-so-much. Many prefer Obama.

"You know, you really have two choices here. I mean, either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying. That seems to be your only two choices. If I had given up everything that my life was about – first of all, I’d let cancer win before it needed to. You know, maybe eventually it will win. But I’d let it win before I needed to. And I’d just basically start dying. I don’t want to do that. I want to live. And I want to do the work that I want next year to look like last year and… and the year after that and the year after that. And the only way to do that is to say I’m going to keep on with my life," – Elizabeth Edwards.

She’s absolutely right, or maybe I’m biased because I have gone through something similar. I learned then (from Anatole Broyard) that one of the most important things you want to be able to say in this world is a very simple thing: "I was alive when I died."

McCain’s charm is now working on the blogosphere as well. Don’t count him out yet.