Funmurphys: the Blog

Link O Rama

First off, congratulations to Heather and Brian Noggle on the their good news. Your lives are about to change, but in a good way.

Tim at Random Observations continues to splain a few things to clueless - this time it's Adam Gopnik on C.S. Lewis. The dead are easy to pick on because they can't fight back - unless, of course, you bother to read them.

Tom McMahon looks at gays, the Catholic Church, and the Boy Scouts - one of which is near and dear to my heart. I have to admit I laughed out loud at a letter in the Post the other day:

I find it surprising that there is a lot of consternation about the Catholic Church not wanting practicing homosexuals in the clergy. The church also has not wanted practicing heterosexuals in the clergy for centuries. Seems like equality to me.

A.J. Greenbank
Quincy, Ill.

Yes, I've sworn off the Wilson Plame embroglio, but Tom Maguire sure hasn't. So if you're still interested, he has the latest twists and turns. OK, I link only because he beats up the NYTs (again).

Michael Totten's doing reporting as serious as a heart attack in Lebanon, and he has lots of pictures to go with the text in this one making it well worth a look as well as a read.

Jeff Harrell looks at the National Strategy to win in Iraq and concludes (in the introduction no less):

"The subtext is pretty clear, and infinitely amusing to your humble narrator: ”We did tell you our strategy three years ago; 48 percent of y’all were just too stupid to wrap your ‘American Idol’-softened noodles around it. So we’re gonna tell you all again, and again, and if necessary again until you get what we’ve been saying all along.“

Hee hee. That’s bad ass."

Cori Dauber looks at the Washington Post and doesn't like what she sees. Who should the Post believe, murdering thugs or the US military? You know that answer, but the Post gets the answer wrong.

Maybe Busymom has the explanation for why there are so many divurging views of what should be the same reality. We can't even agree on the meaning of "Get in the car, it's time to go."

Bill in DC has the best take on the latest non-story in the press.

Tim Blair has joined the defeatests and proclaimers of quagmire. I never thought I'd write that, but , well, it's the truth.

If you thought I couldn't top the last link, there's this sign of utter crazyness: Two women were fired for their refusal to satisfy a gorillas' nipple fetish by displaying theirs. I never though I'd write that either, but, hey, if it's in the paper, it must be true.

I better stop now before I even try to top the last link.