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Hugh Hewitt makes an excellent point about how the rail attacks in Madrid, the London subway bombings and the recent Mumbai (Bombay) subway bombings all could easily happen in the United States if not for the effectiveness of our law enforcement and intelligence agencies but that all of this is put into jeapardy by mainstream media hungry to reveal whatever they can in the search for “truth.”

It may take a decade, or a generation, or even longer, but if these papers survive (and there is great doubt on that score at least as regards the Los Angeles Times) a day will come when their editors issue an apology for the fecklessness. It will be too late for some future victims, but like Walter Duranty, Keller and Baquet will eventually be discredited and their papers shamed.

Sometimes people need to step out of their self-righteous role (that they often put upon themselves) and see what should be done for the greater good.

The stock market is like going to a casino without the free drinks and the cocktail waitresses pretending to like you.

The fact that someone can bat for nine-and-a-half hours probably means the game is a lot longer than it really needs to be.

Reuters India

California Democratic Senator Barbara Boxer lambasted President Bush and VP Dick Cheney today for the rise in gasoline prices, then jumped in a 18mpg Chrysler LHS to go to her Senate off a block away. New York Democratic Senator Charles Schumer took the one block ride in a Hyundai Elantra.

What a joke.

I have a blog about grilling, a blog about money, but not one about all the cool things I find and all the things I want to comment about. So… this will be for that. For the etcetera.