Eric Haney serves as an adviser to the TV series the “unit”, a new show about counterterrorism. Haney is a retired command sergeant major in the U.S. Army, a founding member of Delta Force and author of the book “Inside Delta Force: The Story of America’s Elite Counterterrorist Unit.” In a recent interview surprisingly […]

Some people’s prayers may be counterproductive
A multiyear study of more than 1,800 patients has led researchers to the conclusion that intercessory prayer offered by strangers had no effect on patients undergoing heart surgery. Patients who knew that they were being prayed for had a higher rate of post-operative complications. The study appears in the […]

Chevy Tahoe: The Apprentice
This is cute. Somebody emailed it to me.
Who can come up with a better one?

Silvio Berlusconi Did Not Hump That Particular Traffic Cop - Wonkette
BRT is going to be so disappointed.

Christian Science Monitor Reporter Jill Carroll has been released by her captors.
More at appletree…

Dadahead has a piece up about those wacky geocentrists.
Sungenis is a geocentrist. He contends the sun orbits the Earth instead of vice versa. He says physics and the Bible show that the vastness of space revolves around us; that we’re at the center of everything, on a planet that does not rotate.
Time for the…
Galaxy […]

The war Lieberman didn’t want | Salon.com News
Salon put a rather strange article about Lieberman up overnight that is generating quite a passionate response in comments there. This post includes the comment that I left at Salon.
The article was very sympathetic about someone for whom I don’t have a great deal of sympathy.
I’m afraid […]

As seen on Iraqi television news:
“The Ministry of Defense requests that civilians do not comply with the orders of the army or police on nightly patrols unless they are accompanied by coalition forces working in that area.”
Why doesn’t the Iraqi media report the good news?
Baghdad Burning; via Washington Monthly; via Think Progess; linked by LA.