The Onion’s highly scientific polling reports:

Thomas Friedman’s article in the NY Times shows his duality as both an intelligent and but not-quite-critical-enough thinker. The gist of his argument is his opening graph. He writes:

I was just out in Silicon Valley, checking in with high-tech entrepreneurs about the state of their business. I wouldn’t say they were universally gloomy, but I did detect something I hadn’t detected before: a real undertow of concern that America is losing its competitive edge vis-

You have to love Drudge for this scoop:

Advocate Michael Moore may have released a book titled DUDE, WHERE’S MY COUNTRY?, and may have vaulted to stardom documenting worker’s rights and corporate malfeasance in Flint, Michigan, but that has not stopped Moore from outsourcing his website design and servers — to companies based in Canada!

Cannes-bound Moore, the great protector of the U.S. working class, has outsourced the design of his Web site to a foreign company in Canada, records show.

PLANK — based in Montr

Catholic League president William Donohue writes:

There were some good arguments why Jerry Sloan should have been coach of the year. The “experts” predicted the Jazz to be by far the worst team in the league and the Jazz almost made the plaffoffs. One “expert” predicted that the Jazz woud only win 8 games, and they finished with a record of 42-40. The winner of coach of the year, Hubie Brown, coached a team that has six top-10 draftees, while the Jazz had only one (Tom Gugliotta). But the biggest reason Sloan should have won coach of the year is because he is such a down home guy. The SL Trib reports that Kevin O’Connor, the team’s vice president of basketball operations said that:

“He’s disappointed for the organization, that it wasn’t recognized,” O’Connor said. “He’d be a lot more disappointed if they were giving away a John Deere tractor.”

James Lileks has a good explanation of what is wrong with gay marriage:

But what perked up my ears was one of the anthropologist

Michael Moore has become unhinged from reality (as if that is new).

Orson Scott Card writes:

For the past two years, I could have sworn it was a bunch of fanatical Muslims under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden that hijacked four planes and crashed three of them into American buildings.

But now I learn that these events were actually caused by George W. Bush. I know this because I’ve heard noble patriots like Richard Clarke come forward and blame him for it.

It’s time for a few doses of reality.

From the Boston Globe:

The day after John F. Kerry said he would make all of his military records available for inspection at his campaign headquarters, a spokesman said the senator would not release any new documents, leaving undisclosed many of Kerry’s evaluations by his Navy commanding officers, some medical records, and possibly other material.

Kerry, in an interview Sunday on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” was asked whether he would follow President Bush’s example and release all of his military records. “I have,” Kerry said. “I’ve shown them — they’re available for you to come and look at.” He added that “people can come and see them at headquarters.”

But when a reporter showed up yesterday morning to review the documents, the campaign staff declined, saying all requests must go through the press spokesman, Michael Meehan. Late yesterday, Meehan said the only records available would be those already released to this newspaper.