Read it. Why more rich Americans don’t decamp for Belize or Antigua I have no idea.

Read it. Sad but true. Martha Stewart is apparently the latest “fashion” victim.

When the executives at Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia redesigned their site this year, they replaced a clean site design with new snazzy one filled with images, flash, and video. Unfortunately, while the redesign looked really pretty, regular users found it impossible to actually find any of the content that they were actually looking for.

Read it. Progress is being made.

Read it. Starship troopers, here we come.

Read it. In case you were wondering. I know I was.

Read it. Apparently Dan Rather can’t tell the difference between facts and bullshit. (Can the tabloids afford his salary? I guess we’ll find out.)

Read it. Now you can know faster than ever that you’re abnormal. Enjoy.

Read it. The Star Trek Ban at National Review Online has been rescinded, with results as you would expect.

Read it. I always find it entertaining when the progs turn on each other.

(Funny, I was expecting somebody who looked more like Sigourney Weaver….)

Read it. Surely some Democrat Presidential candidate will add this to the program…?

Read it.

The revamped version of the 1970s hit chronicles the adventures of Jaime Sommers, a barmaid crippled by a horrific car accident. Facing death, her only option is to have her body rebuilt with the help of a top-secret laboratory.

Haven’t we all faced that choice? And wasn’t it a real hand-wringer?

Read it. And ponder. I know that medical benefits are an important factor when I’m looking for a job.

Read it. A really amusing exercise for a lawyer is to watch a garden-variety TV sitcom and tot up the various legal causes of action in which each of the characters indulge. My favorite was “Home Improvement”; typically, by the end of each episode I had a list that would have put Tim Allen’s supposed family on welfare for decades.

Read it. I guess enforcement works after all. Whoda thunkit.

Read it. And take your time — there’s a lot here.

The problem with our old pal Mencius here — and his unwitting launchpad, Dawkins — is that they are like Euclidean geometers working in a non-Euclidean world. Since the Existence doesn’t match their assumptions, Existence is therefore wrong. The flaw in this ought to be obvious.

But it’s fun watching them sweat. I could do it all day.

Mark Steyn takes on Katie Couric. Not exactly an even match.

Read it. Unfortunately, a knowledge of basic economics is not a requirement for any job that I know of — including economics, as Paul Krugman demonstrates pretty clearly.

Read it. Were I running for President, I’d be embarrassed to have such people as supporters.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Inside the Ring.

Read it. My, what a surprise. Aren’t you surprised? I’m sure surprised.

Read it. I can see the headlines now: “Frankenmerlot hits the market.”

Read it. Can the ACLU be far behind? I’m waiting for some American Indian group to demand that the body be returned to them for a respectful burial.

Read it. Well, shucks.

Read it. That this clown is considered a legitimate contender for the Democratic nomination says something really ugly about modern American politics. (Oh, wait, I forgot about Ron Paul….)

Read it. Perhaps this is insensitive, but “Brain-Eating Amoeba Claims Sixth Victim” is such a perfect tabloid headline….

Read it. Just a drop in the bucket, but every little bit counts.

Read it. Is anyone beside me bothered by the blithe assumption that a “congressional investigation” (staff report prepared by young lawyers) has any credibility when it decides that an organization run by ex-special-forces personnel were wrong about whether or not their people were qualified for what was essentially a military operation?

This is like the Post Office criticizing FedEx for inefficency.

Read it. You know it had to happen.

Read it. Surprised to see something like this in the New York Times.

It turns out that there are rules governed by physics to explain why the best distance runners look so different from the best swimmers or rowers and why being big is beneficial for some sports and not others.

Imagine that. Whoda thunkit?

Of course, I wouldn’t want to be in this guy’s shoes when the feminists get through with him. He’ll be facing three to five as Hillary’s towel-boy.

Read it. No, no, it’s not what you think — Jimmy Carter doesn’t come up.

The Hog takes on MST3000. It is not a pretty sight.

There’s no excuse for bad TV or movies. Video is a thousand times easier than writing. It takes more work, but the skills involved are as common as dirt. That’s why there are so many great TV shows and so few good text humorists. Generally, a guy who can write an episode of Cheers in his sleep will be pretty mediocre on the printed page. There are thousands of hilarious Youtube videos created by people who couldn’t write a coherent sentence.

Words you can live by.

Lileks asks a question that is well worth asking.

Of course, I had nuns until I got to high school — those were the days! There are some things you don’t do in a classroom presided over by someone who uses a rope for a belt. With knots on the ends of it.

Read it. We have the technology to fix our education crisis — but we have to clear away the obfuscators first.

Read it. Looks like the Democrats maintain their supremacy when it comes to corruption. It’s just a pity that the poor people of Michigan have to suffer for it.

Oh, wait, they elected these clowns — Never Mind!

Mark Steyn on the dysfunction that dare not breathe its name.

Read it. A bizarre subspecies examined.

Read it. Insight into the souls of those who read the New York Times.

Read it. Never been to Disney World. Don’t plan to go there. Heard good things about it, mostly from people whose tastes differ from mine.

Read it. All my illusions, shattered.

Read it. Can’t say that I buy the premise, but it’s an interesting notion. Of course, being the Boston Globe, I suspect that they primarily want us to forget about Bill Clinton, so Hillary can have a walk to the White House. But that’s me.

Mark Steyn has another vignette on the dhimmification of Western society.

Read it. I love this:

We live in a time when journalists want to be news, rather than report it.

And that tells you pretty much all you need to know about the “profession” of journalism. Check out your local TV news: If they want to know what’s going on, do they interview the people involved? No, they interview a reporter who’s been covering the situation. This is especially true with regard to Iraq, Afghanistan, the Presidential campaigns, etc.

Read it. The progs’ OCD with respect to “race” never ceases to amaze me. 19th-century European aristocrats weren’t this bad.

Read it. Of course, if journalists could understand statistics, they could get a real job.

Read it. Well, most of them sound like you’re gargling with your mouth full.

Read it. Language is a wonderful thing.

Read it. It’s still a great saying.

Read it. Victor Davis Hanson points details how far our culture has degenerated.

Inside Politics.

Inside the Beltway.

Read it. I wasn’t aware that they did that sort of thing any more.