Charts show U.S. military deaths and injuries as well as attacks on U.S. forces by month for 2004 and 2003; includes chart showing states with most troops killed so far this year. (AP Graphic) Link via yankeedoodle at Today in Iraq

InstaGlenn says the best way to help aid the victims of the tsunami disaster is to go to a devastated area and booze it up on the beach while watching the corpses float by. Ah, the smell of rotting flesh and the cries of starving locals! It'll be a vacation to...

Mark Gisleson at Norwegianity directed me to this James Wolcott post, What kind of a maniac puts eagles in a Christmas tree?, that I, devoted Wolcott reader though I am, somehow missed. Here are just three sentences of Wolcott on Matt Taibbi's Time Person of the Year...

(see 10 for introduction) John Nichols didn't make it, the streak ends at 109 Capital Times columns, it just wouldn't be December 30th without him using the word "Israel" for the first time. Last year it was refusenik pilots, this year it's Richard Ben Cramer. In a...