Sunday, June 11, 2006
A Funny New Yorker Cartoon (07:20 PM) - Everyone knows that New Yorker cartoons are, on the whole, either 1) So horrendously lacking in humor as to be thereby humorous 2) Just generally unfunny or 3) So hopelessly nonsensical that it is clear the cartoonist is looking for…
Congratulations and Thanks to Colin Barry (01:56 PM) - Peter Robinson, at National Review’s The Corner, writes:On Sunday [today], Colin Sorkin Barry will graduate from Dartmouth College, joining the more than one thousand members of the Class of 2006 on the Green for Commencement. Today he stood alone in…
Look at All These Corrections (01:41 PM) - The Sweetness and Light blog is covering Time magazine’s extensive corrections to its black-hued Haditha cover story—the one which, like all the others, damns the United States military on the weakest possible evidence. John Hinderaker adds:And it has also developed…
Dartmouth Commencement 2006 (12:23 PM) - Congratulations to the Class of 2006, and to valedictorian Rob Butts. News items about Dartmouth’s commencement proceedings, ongoing today, are here. Elie Wiesel’s remarks are here….
Your Entertainment for the Next Twenty-Two Minutes (10:12 AM) - Family Guy creator (and voice of most of the principal characters) Seth MacFarlane gave a hilarious Class Day address at Harvard last week, using his own voice and that of Peter, Stewie, and Quagmire. Excellent stuff….
The Very Latest on Iran (09:24 AM) - The lede in an Agence France-Presse dispatch this morning goes like this:TEHRAN (AFP) - Iran has said it would not compromise on its nuclear “rights”, but asserted it was still studying an international proposal that demands a freeze of sensitive…
Oll Korrect (08:51 AM) - The Associated Press reports: “Witness Says U.S. Troops Beat Al-Zarqawi After Bombing”…