Time Fountain

Amazing.

I'm actually working really hard, but...

...this is still the most accurate and funny drawing ever.

In Defense of Gibson

From Andrew Sullivan:

In Defense of Gibson: "This piece of anti-Semitic drivel appears in today's Daily Telegraph of London..."

The interesting part of this piece is, IMHO, the comments at the end. They're split relatively evenly between people that completely agree with the article and people that find the article repugnant.

Personally, I find it disgusting. This comment on the page sums up my opinion:

So many responses sping to mind. However the bottom line is that very rarely have I read an article that so elequently identifies the author's love of Jew/Israel bashing without ever once personally taking responsibility for his beliefs (unlike Mel Gibson, who has expressed his beliefs many times before, when absolutely sober and lucid).

Instead O'Hagan shrouds himself in the assertion that 'There are many hundreds of millions in the world who believe that the Jewish state is a force of incredible arrogance and self-interest'. One need not be a mind-reader to see that this is O'Hagan's exact personal thinking - he just doesn't have the honesty to say it.

Light Cartoons

(from Make)

Possible outcomes of Israel-Lebanon conflict

(from Instapundit)

This is a question from a Lebanese blogger: Why doesn't Israel stop shelling Lebanon? The Lebanese people used to be relatively united against Hezbollah, but people are turning to Hezbollah as protectors. The shelling just stirs up anti-Israeli fervor.

The comment from the Israeli is dead on. Israel, at this point, doesn't care about stirring up the hornet's nest, because they've simply had enough. There's only so many rocket attacks you can take before you decide to fight back and damn the consequences.

I like this entry because it presents the "everyday reality" of the situation. It's hard to have sympathy for Israel when you're getting shelled everyday, even if you completely understand and agree with why they're shelling you. The desire to preserve life trumps all.

Sean Hannity is the devil.

Watch this video of dissenters getting kicked out of the Sean Hannity "Freedom Concert". He's one of the few people in America that actually scare me. His show has no substance and is based on two people shouting at each other and then callers remarking on how the "conservative" (and I use the word loosely) guy was absolutely right and the liberal guy was absolutely wrong.

He is a brilliantly gifted leader with the resources of Fox News behind him. He controls an army of listeners who treat his word as gospel, and he mainly controls them by telling them that the evil Mainstream Media is out to get them.

He's definitely a bigger threat to this country than Osama Bin Laden, in my opinion.

Anyway, here's the video.

(It's at the top, on the right.)