LATE NIGHT WITH ANTI-IDIOTARIANS: Dave Letterman is one of the good guys. He travelled to Afghanistan to spend Christmas with the troops, didn’t bring along a camera crew, and didn’t publicize it ahead of time. Bravo!

PS, via a comment on JunkYardBlog by Alex Knapp, here’s the text of Dave’s first post-9/11 show.

THANKS! IoT has had 2,300 visitors since I started tracking. By major-league standards that’s nothing (Misha probably gets that many before he’s out of the shower in the morning), but I appreciate every last one!

The IDF is considering switching to Linux in order to better fend off the daily attacks they get from Islamo-script-kiddies. Interesting.

Warren Lieberfarb, the Warner Home Video exec known as the “father of DVD”, has been fired by AOL/Time Warner in an apparent political squabble. Without him, we might all be watching Circuit City’s pay-per-view DIVX discs (ugh).

It’s Frank’s world, we can only hope to live in it.

Phyllis Schlafly comes out against copyright abuse and the DMCA. Coooool. Since all the guilty Congresscreatures on these issues are liberal Democrats (Fritz Hollings and Diane Feinstein, for starters) there’s plenty of fun conservatives and libertarians can have.

The Euro paper notes are made with genetically modified cotton and are thus illegal under EU regulations. Beautiful!

Pejman hands out the 2002 Pejie Awards. Be very afraid.

Reuters is anti-Israel. I know you’re all shocked and horrified by that statement about the Wire Service of Peace(tm), but Meryl Yourish can back it up.

Glenn Reynolds declares that 2002 was the year of the blog. I can’t argue with that.

Damien Penny gets in on the New Year prediction racket. His are safer bets than most.

J Bowen springboards off of a great Megan McArdle essay on charity to note that the government can’t solve everything. Shocking.

Volunteer weapons inspectors plan to check out the US since we’re the world’s leading “rogasofewZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ. Err, sorry, that whole “rogue nation” thing is so played out even Carrot Top doesn’t think it’s funny. Anyway, Andrea Harris lets ’em have it.

Mike Hendrix Fisks PBS leftbot Bill Moyers.

Viggo continues to be a moron. TTT still rocks.

Steven Chapman thinks that LGF’s Idiotarian Awards are too unilateral, and he provides a list of European morons that didn’t make the cut.

Michele also has a tree ornament for Saddam.

Lake Superior University has posted a list of words and phrases they think should be banned from the English language. Michele doesn’t take direction well and uses all of them in a short story.

Iraq has vowed to fight “much harder” than they did in 1991 when entire platoons surrendered to CNN infobabe Christiane Amonpour. Misha is not impressed.

Anna loves the New Year’s cheese. And who could blame her? The thing that struck me most about the Times Square footage last night was the sheer number of American flags. The terrorists have already lost, and the Blogfather has similar observations.

Several top bloggers give 2003 predictions in a RWN special.

Heh heh. Top terror network al Jazeera will soon be available in the US.

Here’s the perfect antidote to Ted Rall. Members of the Religion of Peace(tm) may wish to look elsewhere.

Tim also documents the errors in notorious hamburglar Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine. Hilarity ensues on LGF.

Tim Blair predicts the future!