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Something a little less serious . . .

We were sitting around my sister's kitchen table and trying to remember the lyrics to the Slinky Song.

They're here.

A .wav of the song is here.

London: a new and bloody chapter for al-Qaeda?

An unknown al-Qaeda cell in Europe claimed responsibility for the attacks in London today on the al-Qal’ah - or Fortress - internet site.

Reportedly, seven bombs went off in four London Underground subway stations and in one London bus, killing at least 40 and wounding over 1,000.

"We shall have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst, and we will do our best....We do not expect to hit without being hit back, and we intend with every week that passes to hit harder. Prepare yourselves then, my friends and comrades, for this renewal of your exertions. We shall never turn from our purpose, however sombre the road, however grievous the cost, because we know that out of this time of trial and tribulation will be born a new freedom and glory for all mankind." - Winston Churchill

Power Line shreds, dices, slices, and otherwise utterly discredits an Associated Press article on the supposed Valerie Plame "scandal."

This is the one where the right-thinking, upstanding and righteous Ambassador Joseph Wilson and his equally upstanding and trustworthy CIA employee wife Valerie Plame get involved with something called "yellowcake" that Saddam's Iraq was trying to buy from the African country of Niger. Much wailing and gnashing of teeth resulted from the revelation somewhere along the line that Plame indeed works for the CIA.

Leaving aside the utter impropriety of an employee of the CIA being married to a U.S. Ambassador in the first place, the whole story has transmogrified into some X-Files conspiracy theory featuring Karl Rove (thunder & lightning sound effect, with neighing of horses) as the Cigarette-Smoking Man of the piece.

The Powerline article notes:

If you're going to serve up a conspiracy theory--without any evidence, of course--shouldn't the theory at least make some kind of sense?

Obviously John Hinderaker isn't familiar with The X-Files. Ultimately, that show made absolutely no sense either, but it sure was popular until it collapsed under the weight of all those disparate conspiracy threads it was trying to work.

Fortunately, I already got mine!

From sfgate.com: Hey guys, women athletes are hot!

. . . women athletes are like domestic appliances. They come in many colors and sizes, the new models perform tasks that were thought to be impossible a few years ago and some men still don't know how to handle 'em.

Hat tip to Fark.

Via the omnipresent Instapundit, it's International Kissing Day.

To quote my sister: "Oh, No!" It's also her husband's birthday.

Click here to see the grand finale (17.8 MB .avi file, be patient!) of the Broadland, SD fireworks extravaganza, presented by Medary.com, our friends and family.

No fingers were blown off or eyes put out in the making of this video.

Teenagers charged with stabbing boy, 15, to death for iPod

Two New York teenagers were charged yesterday with murdering a 15-year-old boy for an iPod, the first fatality in a rising tide of similar attacks.

Wonderful. Maybe I can disguise it as a clunky, bulky old Walkman cassette player or something.

A Frenchman, Georges Malbrunot, who was a hostage of the Islamicists but was released in December 2004, comments on who the "us" is in "why they hate us":

"Little by little, we came to discover we were really on planet bin Laden," he wrote in Le Figaro. "For them [the terrorists], France is the West, it's a global vision, it's the infidel West against the Muslim world."

Via OpinionJournal.

Basketball player J.R. Giddens will leave the University of Kansas and continue his collegiate career at another college, Kansas City radio station KMBZ reports in an on-air story. Giddens was recently seriously wounded in a brawl at a Lawrence, KS bar.

Strategy Page uncovers some interesting statistics:

The death rate of American troops in Iraq has, so far, been about 188 per 100,000 troops. The murder rate in Washington DC is 88 per 100,000. While that’s lower than the death rate for American troops, it’s higher than it is for Iraqi civilians (about 35).

When oh when will the President realize that going into DC was a serious mistake. We're stuck in a quagmire, and he has no plan to get us out.

US Out Of DC!