I mean, the technology’s only been around for seventy years or so…

Apparently the thirty-three pounds of weapons-grade uranium supposedly seized by the Turks the other day is not not only not thirty-three pounds (turned out to be five ounces). It’s not even weapons grade. And it’s not even uranium.

I wonder how much fake uranium the Jihadis have been wasting their money on? These people are such dolts, there ought to be all kinds of sting operations that we could pull on them.

As originally reported by Rishawn Biddle, Glenn writes that Tikkun is whining about someone sending out fake emails, ostensibly from them, to make them look stupid. The gallant law professor implies that there is snark to be made of this, but like Rishawn, unavails himself of the opportunity.

Always up for the cheap shot, I’ll just comment that for all my satirical brilliance, I, for one, lack the imagination to come up with any fictional emails that could top the genuine articles for that purpose. Some folks are simply beyond satire.

Now there are reports that John “Jihad” Walker Lindh, the young Marin County man who went to Afghanistan to seek enlightenment and fight for a regime that executed homosexuals by toppling stone walls on them, was part of a gay love triangle in Pakistan.

If you wrote a novel like this, no one would believe it.

The University of Michigan is going to be sponsoring a Palestinian hatefest in a couple of weeks in Ann Arbor.

A couple nice quotes:

Glossing over Palestinian terrorism, the mission statement declares “it is not our place to dictate the strategies or tactics adopted by the Palestinians in their struggle for liberation.” This outsourcing of morality allows the group to focus on Israel’s sins while ignoring those slaughtered by Palestinian suicide bombers.

and

You have to wonder two things: How would the university react had the Klan or some other extremist group spouting racist, sexist or homophopic hate speech asked for a platform on campus? And when did anti-Semitism lose its seat on the bus of political correctness?

Torricelli is scheduling a press conference for 2 PM eastern. I wonder if he’s being pressured to drop out while the Dems still have time to find an alternate candidate?

Nelson Mandela continues to dissipate his reputation with foolish statements. Now he says that the UN is getting dissed by the US because Kofi Annan is black. Following his recent comments that Israel is a “white” nation and Iraq is a “black” one, this myopic and distorted race-based view of politics is rendering, if it hasn’t already rendered, this once-notable and respected man into utter irrelevance.

The real question should be, how did this loon become New Jersey’s poet laureate in the first place?

Mark Steyn doesn’t think much of Al Gore’s latest attempt at relevance.

The whole thing, as usual, is worth reading, but my favorite bits:

The sight of the Democratic Party wrestling with its conscience is like some old-time carnie freak show: It’s strangely compelling, but you can’t help feeling it’s cruel to put these poor misfits on public display.

and

In fairness to Al, the boy genius was one of only a few senior Democrats with a 12-year consistent robust record on Iraq. But, demonstrating his usual political instincts, he chose to discard his pro-war stance just as his party’s senators were discarding their anti-war stance. The Dems have pulled off a remarkable double: Not only does the leadership’s belated approval for war look opportunistic, but so does Al Gore’s belated opposition to it.

Also read his revised lyrics to the old song, “War!”

One of the bloggers (I disremember who) was taking up a collection to offer trips to Baghdad for the anti-war types. Some idiotarians are actually going to Baghdad to serve as human shields for Saddam, though it’s not clear that they’re aware of the possibility of subsidization by the “warbloggers.”

Kelly, who has made 16 trips to Iraq, sounds unflinching. She is driven by the tremendous collateral damage inflicted by today’s weapons. The United Nations described the damage to Iraq after the gulf war as “near- apocalyptic.”

“You can’t be a vegetarian only between meals,” said Kelly, 49. “And you can’t be a pacifist only between wars.”

She has been blunt when recruiting volunteers for this trip: “We are asking people to be able to say they have had a good life and this could be their last year.”

She hasn’t been paying attention. The precision on weaponry had increased tremendously since the Gulf War. Collateral damage will be minimal. The problem is, she probably considers all damage to Iraq as collateral.

She shouldn’t worry too much about the getting killed thing, though. They’ll always be able to surrender to French journalists, just like the Republican Guard does.

[Update at 2:40 PM PDT]

Now I remember. It was the Shropshire Challenge courtesy of Dr. Weevil.

John Carmack had his first manned test flight yesterday.