Link-o-rama

I'm going to let loose with some rapid-fire linking. I'm too preoccupied for actual blogging.

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Chechen separatists have been causing trouble again.

MOSCOW, Russia (CNN) -- Two female suicide bombers killed 14 people Saturday outside a rock concert in Moscow, Russian authorities said.

It's intruiging to me that most of the Chechen terrorists seem to be female. There was the woman who threw herself under a bus last month, and of course the group last year that targeted a Russian theatre. I seem to remember that group was comprised mostly of women as well.

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Barry White has died at age 58. He always seemed like such a likable guy. And 58 is too young. How sad.

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Joe Conason at Salon has a brilliant review of Treason, the new book by everybody's favorite hatemonger and Bill Maher's clubbing buddy, Ann Coulter. I haven't been keeping up with Ann ever since the demise of Anti-Coulter, but this one's a doozy. Ann seems to have finally revealed her true hero, Former Senator Joseph McCarthy.

"Whether they are defending the Soviet Union or bleating for Saddam Hussein, liberals are always against America," according to her demonology. "They are either traitors or idiots, and on the matter of America's self-preservation, the difference is irrelevant. Fifty years of treason hasn't slowed them down." And: "Liberals relentlessly attack their country, but we can't call them traitors, which they manifestly are, because that would be 'McCarthyism,' which never existed." (Never existed? Her idol gave his 1952 book that very word as its title.)

Soon she'll be mentioning that Hitler at least made the trains run on time.

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Rittenhouse has a post about Ann as well. Even I was shocked to hear Coulter say things like this (via Richard Cohen's article).

Coulter’s book contains the usual name-calling, the usual spinning of the facts, the occasional racial insult -- McCarthy, for instance, “took enemy fire from savage Oriental beasts” in World War II -- and it revives the charge from the 1950s that the Democratic Party is the party of traitors.

Savage Oriental beasts? What's wrong with this woman?

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And I sincerely hope this gelatinous blob is a specimin of Octopus Giganteus and not a pile of whale blubber. That would be cool.

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So there it is. Promise to post something more substantial later.