Miguel Centallas, of whom I’d not previously heard, has a fabulously written piece on cultural relativism.

And it’s not even one you SHOULD cower in terror of, like Misha or Mike Hendrix or Tom from Hootinan. Go see the sordid details for yourself.

Saddam has a new tape out. Misha reviews it.

Would-be jihadis discover that the Iraqis don’t like Saddam much. Next, maybe the media will discover this too.

Reminder for those who read once and don’t scroll down to see updates: Meryl has squared things with the Blogathon folks. Please call off any dogs you may have loosed.

Michele made a movie about Rachel Corrie. Heh heh. (Read the Tim Blair link she provides for context before watching the movie).

When it absolutely, positively, must blow up overnight.

Lots of people will probably run in the California recall race. Hee hee.

Both the press and Congress are turning up the heat on the Saudis. Excellent.

Damn racists.

An increasing number of Americans have a negative view of Islam. Not surprisingly, it seems to be CAIR’s fault.

Den Beste figures out why the anti-war crowd is failing, using examples from his own email. The first Update on the post is a link to a leftist who read this new article and then called him names again instead of arguing any positions or ideas. Go figure.

A sharia-compliant stockbroker has opened in the UK.

Al Queda is reportedly planning more hijackings. I’m sorry, I don’t think that stunt will work again. Passengers know exactly what’s at stake now, and if anyone acted funny they’d be down faster than Brett Favre at the Warren Sapp Clone College.

UPDATE: ScrappleFace agrees with my general assessment.

Tony Blair is being sued in the ICC for “crimes against humanity” by Greek lawyers using “press clippings” as evidence.

Hey Tone, signing that thing doesn’t look so good now, does it?

More trouble for the misquoter.

The Blogathon organizers seem hell-bent to ignore their top fundraisers in favor of those promoting, shall we say, more proletarian causes. Tsk tsk.

UPDATE: Michele has more.

UPDATE 2: Meryl says it’s not what it appears.

Worst sponsorship idea ever? You decide.

Now don’t act all surprised. Sheesh.

The Turks love the National Lampoon’s Vacation movies so much they’ve hired Chevy Chase to reprise the Clark Griswold role for a new commercial. I am not making this up. I could not if I tried.

Misha gets hate email. Hilarity ensues on a global scale. Billion-times drink alert is in effect.