Read it. The Washington Post, criticizing corruption in a government, even a foreign government, not run by Republicans? Mark your calendars.

Could Cuba be next? (Hint: Naw.)

Read it. Note that the only people complaining about this are journalists.

Perhaps we could juice up the numbers by offering a bounty.

Read it. And, of course, that’s the most important issue of the day.

Read it. Is reading dead? If you think so, what are you doing here?

The unspoken assumption of this article (and who would think anything else of the New Yorker?) “reading” means “reading literary fiction”, in which (of course) Brahmin rags like the New Yorker have a natural interest.

But the reading needed to operate computers is in fine shape; in fact, the Internet has led to a great revival of reading among those who would otherwise be sitting slack-jawed in front of the Toob.

Read it. Oh, the lies these newspapers tell.

Israel only borders Gaza on two sides.

One side is ocean, and there is no naval blockade. Nothing of value comes in there because the “Palestianians” can’t be bothered to engage in commerce like other people.

One side is Egypt, a fellow Arab nation. What are they doing to help their fellow Arabs, their fellow Muslims? Not a damned thing.

The reason Gaza is “reduced to beggary” is because they are by nature a bunch of beggars, and Israel is quite properly refusing to continue handouts to people who turn right around and murder Israeli women and children. It’s just that simple.

Read it. Yeah, let’s get away from all this policy wonk business and get to the important stuff. That’s what a serious news organization does.

Read it. Personally, I don’t have a problem with it. Next!

Read it. OF COURSE everyone in Washington, D.C., is interested in the status of cows in the Sudan. It’s not as if there’s anything going on in the United States that deserves coverage. Anyway, it’s a core principle of Transnational Progressivism that “news” in one place is just as important as “news” in any other place — “news” being here defined as something unknown to the average inhabitant of Chevy Chase, Maryland, a bar so low that no tidbit of human knowledg need feel in danger of exclusion. Hey, we’re all about inclusion; Sally Quinn said so.

No link, because I agree with Christopher Hitchens — this is of NO SIGNIFICANCE outside of Omaha, Nebraska, and the fact that national news organizations are paying all this attention to it is merely an indication of how far our culture has degenerated.

Read it. Yeah, but you’re not supposed to eat fried food, so where is this “used cooking oil” supposed to come from? McDonald’s?

Read it. It is an indicator of how clueless the Washington Post is regarding religion that it would claim that China “ordained” a Bishop.

Read it. Guess this is a prelude to a stirring campaign to federalize another local issue. GOD FORBID that we should have different local policies concerning regulation of … carnival rides?

*sigh* And you guys are going to wind up paying for this crap. Hope you’re enjoying it.

More handwringing here and here, if you can stand it.

Read it. I’ll bet you thought it was just Kofi Annan that was fibbing, right?

Read it. They write about how oppressive modern Western society is and congratulate themselves on how “courageous” they’re being, yet when they come up against a real oppressive society and get the opportunity to display real courage, they fold like a wet paper towel.

Read it. No, I really have no interest in this subject — I just wanted to use that headline.

Read it. Now there’s a headline from the Washington Post I never expected to see.

Read it. Life at the Washington Post: A black Republican? How weird is that?

Read it. “Mainstream” libertarians (now there’s an oxymoron for you) try to square the circle of having a candidate who’s a fruitcake.

Or: Why most libertarians aren’t Libertarians.

Read it. And place your bets on how long they last before getting stolen. Whoever came up with this bright idea never tried to put out solar-powered sidewalk lights in front of his home.

Ruth Marcus demonstrates the remarkable propensity of those on the left to shoot their own wounded.

Read it. Women and minorities hardest hit, of course.

Read it. Would that be “selling out” or “buying in”?

Read it. But that doesn’t fit the narrative, so ignore it.

Read it. Granted, it would vastly expand the concept of Useful Idiot.

Newsweek’s profile of a religious Democratic official was a discouraging sign. The story about Leah Daughtry, the DNC’s chief of staff and a Pentecostal minister, was almost completely free of religious content.

And that’s religion for Democrats.

Read it. Only by leftists.

If you were next door to a Communist superpower for 70 years, you’d have an active gun culture too.

Read it. Just as politics is show business for ugly people, it’s a way for pretty people whose day job is pretending to be somebody else to pretend that they’re something more than shallow reflections of some writer’s indigestion.

Read it. Another job Americans won’t do.

Read it. I haven’t read Hart’s book yet — it’s on my list of Things To Do In My Copious Free Time — but I think that Kling carries quite a bit of baggage along with him into this review.

Hart is not someone whose views I trust.

Well, that’s fine, but at least tell us why not.

Arnold raises some worthwhile questions, but I don’t think he gives them enough thought before drawing his conclusions. The basic problem is more objectively defining what the term “IQ” means — or, prior to that, what the term “intelligence” means. Just saying that intelligence is the ability to think better than someone else is worse than useless, because “think” itself isn’t a well-defined term, and the statement appears to say something useful without doing so.

I suspect that Hart and Kling are using “IQ” in different ways, and that makes for a tedious and unfruitful discussion. The problem with these quasi-political discussions is that nobody starts out by defining his freaking terms, which would be the first thing they’d do if they were writing a systematic treatment of any other subject.

That chaps my butt big-time.

Read it. This is the same reason the Times and the Post periodically run lists of names of the dead — not to honor them or to commemorate their service, but to create as large a virtual body pile as possible.

Read it. It is a mark of how low we have sunk that most “intellectuals” in America have a knowledge of religion  that would disgrace a cartoon character.

I live in Texas; I have zero interest in how much of California might be on fire, a topic that seems to be consuming (pun intended) the local “professional” news media here in Dallas.

Wake me when the flames approach Amarillo.

Read it. I don’t know what universe left-wing moonbats inhabit but I sure hope they run tours someday.

Read it. Who cares? Left-wing ideas have been failing since the Paris Commune in 1870, and they’re still as popular as ever.

Read it. I have to agree.

Read it. Wonder when they’ll rename AP the BG for Brothers Grimm.

Read it. Typical modern snotty-journalism narrative, “Victims and Villains”. Seems like nobody can write straight news any more.

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

Is there a more tediously paranoid organization than Greenpeace? Maybe PETA. I’m sure these people (if I may use the term so loosely) wear latex gloves to shake hands.

Read it. No, it won’t, because most people don’t pay any attention to politics unless it sticks its snout in their laps — they have lives and jobs and all that sort of thing. At most it will make things more confused. (Not that there’s anything wrong with that….)

Read it. Actually, it would be more accurate to say that “Republicans are the new Democrats”.

Read it. Hey, it’s just wogs killing wogs, so nobody in the Brahmin caste cares. It’s like blacks killing blacks; no headlines there.

Read it. This behavior is not, of course, racist — if they refused to put black models on the covers even if doing so would cause circulation to go up, that would be racist. This is purely a business decision.

This woman is a poster child for why socialists need to be kept out of any position of power or influence — they are totalitarians to the core, with no moral commitment to freedom. Much like racists, come to think of it.

Read it. Talk about late to the party — that happened a long time ago, fella.

Actually, one must distinguish between people who make their money as entrepreneurs, who tend to be Republican, and people who make their money through financial manipulation or inheritance or pretending to be other people in public, who tend to be Democrat. Sadly, a lot of CEOs are in the latter category rather than the former.

I suspect that the latter crowd subconsciously feel that they haven’t really earned, and hence don’t really deserve, their wealth; that guilt makes them “liberal” and hence Democrats. Of course, that’s just a theory; I’m too lazy to do the research necessary to test it. But it fits the available evidence.

Read it. Talk about low-hanging fruit….

Read it. And you could probably count the number of Republicans in the Hamptons on the fingers of one Latino housemaid.

Read it. And yet they would be the first to boil in their own outrage if Republicans had pulled such a stunt.

Rush Limbaugh is auctioning off the letter that Senate Democrats sent to his syndication partner in a vain attempt to pressure him into apologizing. You would think that they would have seen that coming — but they’re politicians, and therefore had their common sense surgically removed when they reported to Washington.

Proceeds will go the the foundation providing scholarships for kids of military and law enforcement people for which Rush has raised $30 million over the years — because, as you know, Rush hates “phony soldiers”.

The head of Clear Channel send a very polite response. I’d have just written, “Hey, Harry: Bite me.” But that’s why I’m not in charge of a huge media conglomerate, I guess.

Read it.

Read it. Nothing new here, but it’s fascinating to see it all brought together in one place.

In case you were wondering. I know I was.

(No, there’s no link. Why not is left as an exercise for the reader.)

Read it. Quite possibly.