Idi Amin has finally died. It didn’t happen soon enough–several decades sooner would have been much better.

Here’s an interesting piece from the LA Times about how postmodernists have taken over film schools. I found this particular paragraph revealing, though I’m not quite sure of what:

From Kevin Brownlow, the world’s leading silent movie historian, author of “The Parade’s Gone By . . .,” and co-producer, with David Gill, of acclaimed documentaries: “You would think, from this closed-circuit attitude to teaching, that such academics would be politically right wing. For it is a kind of fascism to force people practicing one discipline to learn the language of another, simply for the convenience of an intellectual elite. It’s like expecting Slavs to learn German in order to comprehend their own inferiority. But they are not right wing. They are, regrettably, usually left wing?quite aggressively Marxist?which makes the whole situation even more alarming.”

I would have liked more elaboration why that was “alarming,” rather than completely unsurprising. Apparently, even some leftists are embarrassed by this stuff.

It’s been twenty five years now, and the AP has a story of the anniversary of the Love Canal debacle. It was the event that created the insane Superfund for environmental cleanup, most of the money for which is siphoned off into lawyer’s wallets.

And of course, what the AP doesn’t mention is that it wasn’t Hooker Chemical’s fault–they just ended up being the fall guy for stupid bureaucrats.

It’s been twenty five years now, and the AP has a story of the anniversary of the Love Canal debacle. It was the event that created the insane Superfund for environmental cleanup, most of the money for which is siphoned off into lawyer’s wallets.

And of course, what the AP doesn’t mention is that it wasn’t Hooker Chemical’s fault–they just ended up being the fall guy for stupid bureaucrats.

It’s been twenty five years now, and the AP has a story of the anniversary of the Love Canal debacle. It was the event that created the insane Superfund for environmental cleanup, most of the money for which is siphoned off into lawyer’s wallets.

And of course, what the AP doesn’t mention is that it wasn’t Hooker Chemical’s fault–they just ended up being the fall guy for stupid bureaucrats.

Four marines were attacked and wounded in San Juan Capistrano. When will they learn that they’re not welcome there? We need to have elections as soon as possible, and remove the occupying forces. October 7 isn’t soon enough.

Joanna Weiss has an article in the Boston Globe about blogs and their growing influence on politics, using Oliver Willis and the Dean campaign as an example.

And wonder of wonders, there’s no mention of Instapundit.

Gennifer Flowers’ defamation lawsuit against Hillary Clinton has been reinstated.

Because they have Charlie Rangel as one of their spokesmen (sorry, no good URL):

The U.S. acted illegally when its soldiers attacked and killed Uday and Qusay Hussein, a leading Democratic congressman complained on Tuesday, before mocking the military maneuver that succeeded in eliminating the brutal duo.

“We have a law on the books that the United States should not be assassinating anybody,” Rep. Charlie Rangel, D-NY, told Fox News Channel’s “Hannity & Colmes.”

“We tried to assassinate Castro and we paid dearly for it,” the Rangel contended. “And when you personalize the war and you say you’re killing someone’s kids, then they, in turn, think they can kill somebody.”

When an incredulous Sean Hannity expressed dismay at Rangel’s comments, the Harlem Democrat shot back, “How can you get so much satisfaction that two bums have been killed? We got bums all over the world and some in the United States.”

Then Rangel mocked the U.S. military’s success in killing the two Hussein heirs, saying, “I personally don’t get any satisfaction that it takes 200,000 troops, 250,000 troops, to knock off two bums.”

Here’s my nomination for the most obtuse blog post in response to the news that Saddam’s sons are with their virgins (or not–my hope is that they’re shoveling brimstone sans air conditioning).

Read the 200+ comments as well, if you can get through it (I’m not referring to the length…)