Tinfoil hats for the WaPo. Moonbattery
World champion freehand circle-drawer. (h/t, Tim Blair)
A really big legal show: the Libby trial. NY Sun
World's environmentally worst-behaving country. Guess. Flopping
Are there active and passive occupations? YARGB wonders. Bloggers? Definitely passive.
The French pay homage to Walt Disney
Iranian executions. And, furthermore,
these folks are living in something akin to Europe's Dark Ages. A quote from the NY Sun's piece on banning the letter X:
Among the commission's deeds is the famed 1974 fatwa — issued by its blind leader at the time, Sheik Abdul Aziz Ben Baz — which declared that the Earth was flat and immobile. In a book issued by the Islamic University of Medina, the sheik argued: "If the earth is rotating, as they claim, the countries, the mountains, the trees, the rivers, and the oceans will have no bottom." Another bright light of the commission, Sheik Abdel-Aziz al-Sheikh, recently stopped a government reform proposal aimed at creating work for women by allowing them to replace male sales clerks in women's clothing stores. Sheik al-Sheikh damned the idea, saying it was a step "towards immorality and hellfire." The underlying logic is breathtaking: Women are more protected by buying their knickers from men! Over the years, the commission has rendered Saudi Arabia a true kingdom of darkness. Movie theaters are banned, as are sculptures, paintings, and music, and the mixing of sexes in public.
