We’re coming up on the 50th anniversary of the Buddy Holly plane crash (immortalized by Don MacLean) and the Des Moines Register has put together a very cool multimedia databook. There’s a fairly stunning amount of content, including interviews, photos, and even the complete autopsy reports for the ghoulish. I’d say it’s one of the best Web presentations I’ve ever seen out of anyone, much less a newspaper.

That Saudi anti-jihad program must be really effective. Not. (Isn’t that like having the Pallies run a anti-launching-missiles-at-Israel program?)

Margaret Thatcher is exactly right.

Code Pink is gonna have an aneurysm.

Is Robert Reich really this stupid? Signs point to “yes” based on his tenure with the Clinton Administration.