Mullah Omar, still blustering, says that Osama is still alive, and that we’re really going to get it. It didn’t mention if it was a drive-by interview from his car.

OK, I’ll admit it. The latest wave of bombings in Israel has put me in a whimsical mood. Laurence Simon aka “File13 (Amish Tech Support),” over at Charles Johnson’s site, asks what the affinitive term is for Palestinian “militants.”

We have a gaggle of geese, a crash of rhinocerous, so what do we call a group of folks who habitually lie and blow themselves (and others) up?

Mr. Simon suggests a “burst” of Palestinians.

Here are my contest entries:

An explosion of Palestinian “militants”?
A mendacity of Palestinian “militants”?

And for EU bureaucrats, who cheerfully fund this madness, an idiocy of burEaUcrats?

Or, in the spirit of a “pride of lions,” how about a shame of burEaUcrats?

Here’s a little item in the White House Going-Out-Of-Business vandalism spree that had gone previously unnoted:

The report also, for the first time, reveals that a bust of Abraham Lincoln vanished and was found at former Vice President Al Gore’s home.

A Gore ex-staffer is quoted as saying staffers “inadvertently packed” the bust – which Gore returned on July 11, 2001.

Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera yesterday said Gore wasn’t even aware he had the bust…”

I can believe that. I doubt if he had sticky fingers–he probably didn’t even know who it was.

Here’s a little item in the White House Going-Out-Of-Business vandalism spree that had gone previously unnoted:

The report also, for the first time, reveals that a bust of Abraham Lincoln vanished and was found at former Vice President Al Gore’s home.

A Gore ex-staffer is quoted as saying staffers “inadvertently packed” the bust – which Gore returned on July 11, 2001.

Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera yesterday said Gore wasn’t even aware he had the bust…”

I can believe that. I doubt if he had sticky fingers–he probably didn’t even know who it was.

Here’s a little item in the White House Going-Out-Of-Business vandalism spree that had gone previously unnoted:

The report also, for the first time, reveals that a bust of Abraham Lincoln vanished and was found at former Vice President Al Gore’s home.

A Gore ex-staffer is quoted as saying staffers “inadvertently packed” the bust – which Gore returned on July 11, 2001.

Gore spokesman Jano Cabrera yesterday said Gore wasn’t even aware he had the bust…”

I can believe that. I doubt if he had sticky fingers–he probably didn’t even know who it was.

For those interested in internet security issues, and open source versus propietary software, David Skoll over at Roaring Penguin has an extensive rebuttal/critique of the Alexis de Tocqueville Institution’s (Microsoft-sponsored?) slam at GPL.

Remember Lileks’ question? How many good men would eat the barrel in the next few years to make the sound go away?

A despondent FDNY paramedic hung himself last Friday.

On the nanotech front, IBM has developed an extremely dense data-storage medium.

Imagine several DVDs in something the size of a sugar cube, or a 10GB cell phone.

[via Geek Press

Speaking of which, think good thoughts for Paul and Diana Hsieh, who are in the path of the Hayman fire in Colorado.]

Jane Galt and Mindles H. Dreck have discovered the ultimate resource for economics groupies.

Wow. Even the San Francisco Chronicle says that Davis is in in big trouble.