Jon Carroll’s column today is awesome:

Terrorism is not a nation; terrorism is a tactic. The United States has used it or condoned its use. There is currently a very real Islamic fundamentalist terrorist movement. The United States has an equally real obligation to use its power to oppose this movement.

The movement is not controlled from Iraq; there is no evidence that the elimination of Saddam Hussein would do anything to hinder that movement. The Taliban still move freely along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border; their power has been diminished but not eliminated. But we are asked to forget about that, even as we are asked to forget about the still-mysterious anthrax attacks that occurred less than two years ago.

Go read the rest of it. Right now.

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For all you Buffy fans out there: The First Evil’s Online Journal.

Have decided to move on from the death of my Ubervamp, heart-breaking as it still is. The memorial page has provided some sense of closure, since obviously funeral was not possible for the medium-sized pile of dust.

(Warning: contains some spoilers for Season 7.)

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I found a new blog devoted to movie reviews, The Flick Filosopher. She gets to see all the movies I don’t any more. I have no idea if I agree with her on all her reviews (having not, you know, seen the damn movies), but her Bias Meter is pretty funny.

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Matthew Tobey provides us with a short list of who’s not involved with terrorism:

Blue Man Group: I致e said it before and I値l say it again; Blue Man Group was nowhere near the U.S. Embassy in Kenya in 1998. While their stage show is packed wall-to-wall with less-than-subtle anti-capitalist propaganda, and they contributed a song to the charity album Now That’s What I Call Death to the Infidels, the strange paint-faced musicians are all bark and no bite.