Saturday QuickHits

Last week, I mentioned my annoyance with Bill Kristol's newest Weekly Standard piece calling for U.S. involvement in the Israeli/Hezbollah war. On Fox News Sunday, Juan Williams shot back, claiming Bill "just [wanted] war, war, war, and [he wants] us in more war!" Pat Buchanan's latest column calls the Weekly Standard's writers and Kristol "hairy-chested warriors" whose "blood lust" was piqued by all the carnage. His piece ends by claiming it's not a war of the United States, but a war of Bill Kristol's. Harsh, yes; but appropriately so, in response to the Standard's irresponsible foreign policy regarding Israel's newest conflict. I rarely agree with Pat and Juan (although, Williams is one of my most respected liberals), but they've hit on some golden truth here. Despite his anti-semitism, Pat's on the spot about Kristol's "blood lust." It's easy to call for wars here, there, and everywhere, when you're pushing troops from a tip of a pen.
UPDATE: Bill calls those who don't agree with him "weak horses." Giddyup.

I was wondering, What font does the New York Times use? I always assumed it was Times New Roman, but it doesn't look like it.

Remember everyone whining about the slow response to aid Katrina victims living in a soupbowl? Where's the praise for the Bush Administration sending troops to evacuate Americans from Lebanon, taking them to Cyprus, and waiving the bill? Anyone? Cricket, cricket.

Michelle Malkin let me in on a weird ritual known as World Jump Day. Apparently, if 600 million people from the western hemisphere jump simultaneously, the reaction would cause the Earth to moveout of orbit, into a new one, and cease global warming. It was originally intended to be a hoax, but the folks over at treehugger.com (I'm not kidding you, that's the site.) took it as truth and encouraged readers to give it a leap.

President Bush vetoed his first bill in five-and-a-half years in office. If passed, the bill would have allowed federal dollars to pay for scientific testing on embryonic stem cells. Funny, the same party who whined about the defecit wants to spend money on something that has provided not one successful result. The prez was right to veto the bill, but he did so on wrong grounds. He should have axed it on fiscally conservative federal funding grounds, not religious ones. Of course, that doesn't rally a far-right base for November.

That's it for today. I'll be on vacation next week.