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American freelance journalist/blogger Steven Vincent was murdered yesterday in Iraq. I was still at work earlier this evening when word came over the wires that Vincent had been killed -- the news will make it into the south and city editions of today’s Union-Tribune. Over the next few days and weeks we will hopefully learn […]

Los Angeles Times media critic David Shaw died last night. Though Shaw was disdainful of bloggers (they don't have "four experienced editors" checking their copy), he was also a talented and honest journalist. I first ran across Shaw's work nearly a decade ago as I was working on my senior project at Cal Poly SLO—an […]

For those of you aspiring secret agents, today's New York Times provides us with a rule that is key to keeping your covert identity secure: Don't let your politically minded spouse list your name in his/her Who's Who listing. One of the most puzzling aspects of the C.I.A. leak case has had to do with […]

I get home tonight, flush the toilet and the lever inside the tank breaks. It somehow got corroded and just snapped. A quick jaunt over to Home Depot and $4.28 later and I've got it fixed. I need to visit Home Depot more often; the young lady working in the fixtures department...hubba, hubba.

Bush bypassed those annoying Democrat senators today and gave a recess appointment to U.N. Ambassador John Bolton. Democrats are, predictably, outraged by the move. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Massachusetts, criticized the recess appointment. "The abuse of power and the cloak of secrecy from the White House continues," Kennedy said in a statement. "It's bad enough […]

On "Fox News Sunday," Sen. Chris Dodd, when discussing the nomination of John Roberts to the Supreme Court, referred to the "privacy clause" in the Constitution. The printer must've made a mistake with my copy, because I can't seem to find that pesky clause anywhere.

You know, if you were a Kool-Aid drinker, then you'd think that this never happened before. You know, when Democrats controlled the Congress. That's why there's so few things named after Democrat Sen. Robert C. Byrd.

One month and five days after The New York Times ran an article allowing a lawyer to lodge an anonymous, ad hominem against director Peter Jackson, the Times finally acknowledges its faux pas. An article in Business Day on June 27 headed "Lawsuit of the Rings" described a court action by Peter Jackson, director of […]

Former President Jimmy Carter apologized yesterday for his failure to take strong action more than 25 years ago when Islamic terrorists overran the American embassy in Tehran, Iran, and held Americans hostage for more than a year. "My failure to take decisive action gave terrorists the impression that America was weak," Carter told the Baptist […]

Characterizing the America-hating cartoonist Ted Rall as an America-hater apparently gets his panties in a bundle. Unfortunately, Taranto's apparently too good a man to take Rall up on his offer -- so I'll do it for him. What do you say Teddy-boy America-hater? You (the America-hater) and me in a Toughman fight with the proceeds […]