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Tuesday, July 18, 2006
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I well remember grabbing copies of old Spillane novels from my grandfather's stash of paperbacks. What a wild world!
How c-could you?" she gasped.
I only had a moment before talking to a corpse, but I got it in.
"It was easy," I said.
That pretty well says it all about Spillane. A couple generations of readers and writers learned (something, I'm not sure what) from him.
8:08:26 PM 
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BILL FRIST has started a group medical blog.
(Via Instapundit.com.)
I wonder if the purpose of it is to diagnose persistent vegetative states like he did with Terry Schiavo?
9:22:47 AM
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Why doesn't Syria get on the phone and stop this shit?
Oh, that's right, we bought it, we own it.
KUFA, Iraq, July 18 (Reuters) - A car bomb hit a group of labourers after they boarded a minibus in a market in a Shi'ite city in Iraq on Tuesday, killing 59 people and sparking clashes between protesters and police, witnesses and officials said.
The blast, some 50-100 metres from a Shi'ite shrine in the southern city of Kufa, tore through the minibus after it had pulled out of the crowded market.
Hospital and security sources said 132 people were wounded in the blast, which dealt a fresh blow to Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's efforts to promote national reconciliation.
Riyadh al-Shibni, a doctor in a Najaf health centre, said hospitals in Najaf and Kuf had received 59 bodies.
Police in the scene were pelted with rocks by angry crowds. Many appeared to be followers of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who has many supporters in the town. Kufa is near the holy city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad.
The protesters chanted to the police: "You are traitors!" "You are not doing your job!" "American agents!".
Well, at least the slurs have stayed about the same.
(Via Rising Hegemon.)
9:20:16 AM
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Dick Cheney, August 2002
Another argument holds that opposing Saddam Hussein would cause even greater troubles in that part of the world, and interfere with the larger war against terror. I believe the opposite is true. Regime change in Iraq would bring about a number of benefits to the region. When the gravest of threats are eliminated, the freedom-loving peoples of the region will have a chance to promote the values that can bring lasting peace. As for the reaction of the Arab “street,” the Middle East expert Professor Fouad Ajami predicts that after liberation, the streets in Basra and Baghdad are “sure to erupt in joy in the same way the throngs in Kabul greeted the Americans.” Extremists in the region would have to rethink their strategy of Jihad. Moderates throughout the region would take heart. And our ability to advance the Israeli-Palestinian peace process would be enhanced, just as it was following the liberation of Kuwait in 1991.
July 17, 2006
A volley of Hezbollah rockets rained across northern Israel late Monday, wounding at least five Israelis and shattering the windows of a hospital in Safed, the Israel Defense Forces said.
In Lebanon, meanwhile, the Lebanese Army confirmed that a military base near Beirut had been attacked.
Somebody get Cheney’s stock picks, so you can pick all their competitors.
(Via Oliver Willis - Like Kryptonite To Stupid.)
9:14:12 AM
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Philip Roth in his studio.
(Via goodshit.)
8:56:28 AM
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