…that this marriage didn’t last. Well, actually, I’m surprised that it lasted as long as it did.

Here’s what the incoming anchor at NBC News thinks of bloggers (sorry, no permalink):

Mr. Williams

I haven’t been tracking the news from Ukraine closely, but this seems like big news, and good news.

Journalists on Ukraine’s state-owned channel – which had previously given unswerving support to Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovych – have joined the opposition, saying they have had enough of “telling the government’s lies”.

Instapundit has a list of sites where you can support our troops, for whom we should be thankful not just today, but every day.

And here are a couple sites that you can go to to support our allies, the British troops. Given the current anti-war mood over there, they may not be getting as much support from home as ours are.

If anyone knows of any similar sites for the other members of the coalition, please let me know.

…over at The Corner. Just Control-F “Cranberry.” (If you’re reading this in the (more distant) future, go back to the November 24th, 2004 archives.)

In the meantime, I’m appalled that Jane Galt peels her mashed potatoes.

Inspired by this post, Scott Ott has the appropriate take.

It’s said that in ancient Rome, when the Emperor was in a parade in his chariot, basking in the cheers of the throngs, he always had a slave standing next to him to whisper in his ear, “Remember sire, thou art but a man.” The blogosphere needs one of those occasionally as well.

With apologies to the Bard:

Why, man, they doth bestride the narrow world
Like a Colossus, and we petty men and women
Walk under their huge legs and peep about
To find ourselves dishonourable graves….
Now, in the names of all the gods at once,
Upon what meat doth these our bloggers feed,
That they are grown so great?

Lots of people are claiming that Dan Rather stepping down from his anchor chair next spring is a victory for bloggers. But this isn’t really news–there were rumors of it in September. Admittedly, that was after Memogate broke, but I thought that Rather was going to be retiring in ’05 regardless, and there had been rumors of his impending retirement of at least the anchor chair for years.

If he were to step down now, and the reason stated was because of Memogate, that would be a blogosphere victory, but this just looks like what was planned all along. He continues to do Sixty Minutes. I don’t see that he’s being punished at all. Or am I missing something?

Both current and prospective. The book is out. Just in time for Christmas.

In a small town in southeastern Pennsylvania, a war-weary president commemorated a new military cemetery, few of which’s first honorees had to travel far to final interment, having laid down their lives on that ground just a few months before. It’s useful to remember the words, in light of the recent election, and all the angry talk of Blue and Red, instead of Blue and Gray:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate – we can not consecrate – we can not hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us–that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of the people, by the people, and for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

The Spartans are cleaning the (#4) Badgers’ clock in the fourth quarter, 35-14. If Michigan beats (The) Ohio State University next week, everything will be coming up roses for them. Except that they may actually make it into a BCS game and let Wisconsin go to Pasadena, since Auburn is also beating Georgia.

[Update a couple minutes later]

Oops. Make that 42-14…