Picking up the dropped baton from late, lamented Skippy, Michael Moore attempts to cheer up the troops in utter defiance of reality, saying that “progressivism” will prevail.

To cheers and boisterous clapping, he told the crowd that liberals and progressives are the majority and exhorted locals to run for Democratic precinct offices to help win the White House and Congress in 2004….

…He was at his most plaintive when he questioned the war and those who have died fighting it. “I say this with all the respect it deserves: What did they die for? What did any of these kids die for?”

Don’t ask a bunch of college kids in Seattle, Mike.

Ask an Iraqi mother whose child is no longer in prison. Ask a young Iraqi girl who no longer has to fear being randomly picked up off the street, raped by Prince Uday, having her head shaved, and thrown into a stinking hell pit to be forgotten. Ask the man with the hole in his hand, whose torment is finally ended.

For an answer to those questions, look into the now-happy eyes of the man with no tongue to speak.

They’re now able to do stop-action photography on atoms and electrons.

On a somewhat larger – but still microscopic – scale, biologists can peer into the nucleus of a living cell and spy on the interaction of proteins, the basic building blocks of every organism. “We’re watching the dance of the proteins in action,” molecular biologist David Piwnica-Worms, also at Washington University, said.

For example, Douglass Forbes, a biologist at the University of California, San Diego, has made movies of proteins shuttling cargo in and out of the nucleus of a cell through miniature, doughnut-shaped pores. “They’re like small spaceships for nuclear transport,” Forbes said.

The implications of this are immense.

That’s what Syria claims it wants.

I’ve got a better idea. How about a tyranny-free and terrorist-free zone in the Middle East?

With so much to live for, particularly with all of his new-found fame and career prospects.

Iranian newspapers are apparently reporting that Baghdad Bob aka Skippy, hanged himself last week.

And so a promising career in advertising and politics is tragically cut short.

Tom Ridge has lowered the terror alert level, from orange to yellow (whatever that means).

I think that this color scheme business has as much to do with the desire of the government to manage the public mood as it does to any actual perception of the threat. In a sense, it’s a signal that the war is over.

Anyone in the DC area interested in space policy might want to attend this event tomorrow. There’s also streaming audio and video available for those of us who can’t attend in person.

This movie should be great, if you liked “This Is Spinal Tap” and “Waiting For Guffman.”

It opens tomorrow.

This movie should be great, if you liked “This Is Spinal Tap” and “Waiting For Guffman.”

It opens tomorrow.

This movie should be great, if you liked “This Is Spinal Tap” and “Waiting For Guffman.”

It opens tomorrow.

With the war almost over, we’re starting to discover where the media have hidden their WMD. Iowahawk, a correspondent embedded with the 113th Mobile Pundit Reconnaissance Squadron, has the scoop.