Michael Totten has an interesting interview with an Israeli about Lebanon and Israeli politics.
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An Open Letter To The Pope
From Catholic Ed Morrissey:
If Islam is ever to peacefully co-exist with other faiths in the manner that Christendom finally learned how to do, then it has to start abiding questions and criticisms without resorting to violence. Islam has to learn to persuade and to attract people through reason, not through forced conversions and coexistence through violent supremacy. Muslim leaders around the world still believe that our faith can only exist at their sufferance, and any question of their doctrinal beliefs has to be met with violence or demands for apologies, not with rhetoric, facts, and reason.
I’ve heard no denunciations from any Muslim of the forced conversions of the Fox News reporters a couple weeks ago. If anyone is aware of any, please let me know.
Overhyped
That’s what Keith Cowing says that Anousheh Ansari’s flight is being.
I agree. It’s great that she’s flying, and I hope that it provides useful inspiration, but Space Adventures has gone overboard. I’ll be much more interested in what she does with her money and time when she gets back, in terms of helping private enterprise.
She’s No Oriana
The Anchoress compares La Fallaci and Rosie O’Donnell:
So great is my respect for Fallaci, that to mention Rosie O
She’s No Oriana
The Anchoress compares La Fallaci and Rosie O’Donnell:
So great is my respect for Fallaci, that to mention Rosie O
She’s No Oriana
The Anchoress compares La Fallaci and Rosie O’Donnell:
So great is my respect for Fallaci, that to mention Rosie O
Oh, Well
At least there’s one good football team in Michigan. Maybe the Wolverines should have played Chicago today. The Lions are already down 17-zip in the first half.
[Update with three minutes to go in the game]
Down 34-7. Hey, they can still come back. They only need one touchdown every forty-give seconds.
And the Tigers are losing to the Orioles in the bottom of the eighth, with Minnesota winning. so their lead in the Central Division will be down to one game. Looks like they’re going to blow it, and they may not even make it as a wild card.
Glad we at least have the Wolverines today.
[Update a little after 4 PM EDT]
Hey, they Tigers have tied it up at eight each in the bottom of the eighth. Maybe they can pull it out.
[Update at 4:30]
They’re in extra innings. Unfortunately, in the top of the tenth, the Twins have a man on second with nobody out. A single would bring in the go-ahead run.
[Couple minutes later]
Crap. The Tigers’ bull pen is letting them down. Two runs in, bases loaded, with only one out. They’re going to have to have a heck of an inning at the bottom of the tenth to recover.
[Update]
Sigh. You know, maybe it’s just as well. The way they’ve been playing for the last few weeks, they’d never make it through the playoffs anyway.
A Sad Age
Victor Davis Hanson has thoughts on Oriana Fallaci and the Pope.
Nonviolence
How could the “Religion of Peace™” be against what the Pope said?
Glenn Reynolds explains.
Wow
Still a lot of game to go (it’s early in the second quarter) but Notre Dame is looking pretty overrated. They haven’t gotten a first down.
Note, I’m not saying Michigan is that great, but at least it looks like they may get through September without a loss, if they continue like this, and that’s an accomplishment in itself.
[Update a few minutes later]
27-7 with a lot of time remaining in the first half (two of the Michigan touchdowns were off turnovers). And the only reason that Notre Dame got the touchdown was a (rare) interception off Henne–they still haven’t gotten a first down, I don’t think. The Irish have to be in shock.
[Near the end of the half]
The Irish finally managed to put together a drive. 34-13 at the half. I have to think that the Michigan defense is letting up, because they’re becoming complacent. Don’t do that. You’re playing God’s team. Or at least they think they are.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall in both locker rooms at half time.
[Update at the end of the third quarter]
40-13, Wolverines.
Still thinking that the Irish were overranked, because they were the Irish. But I’m sure that Michigan will be overranked as a result.
Still, it’s starting to look a lot like 1997…