More Warnings from Al-Qaeda

...courtesy of Instapundit. Something new to be concerned about, or just more of the same desperate theatrical posturing and attempts to incite divisions among Americans?

Meryl Yourish comments: "Sounds to me like they just got last season’s 24 on DVD."

Indeed. Sounds like they're scraping the bottom of the idea barrel. I hope they haven't also been watching Battlestar Galactica and building poorly-founded expectations that they'll drive us to some kind of pathetic navel-gazing self-doubt about our right to exist... Even a single attack of the magnitude they allude to would, I feel confident, put an end to such idle pursuits and galvanize Americans' will to hunt down Al Qaeda and its brethren and unequivocally destroy their ability to ever do such things again -- something the 9/11 attacks only partially succeeded in doing. But I certainly hope that any such attempts will be successfully thwarted, and we'll therefore never get to find out.

Oscars, Shmoscars

Glenn Reynolds says he won't be watching the Oscars this year. I'm not planning to go out of my way to watch them either. I've had my fill of Hollywood's cultural cynicism and misguided activism in recent years, thank you very much. So many better things to do with one's time...

UPDATE Sunday 3/5: The Manolo is liveblogging the Oscars, with guestbloggers Stephen Green, Gay Patriot, Roger Simon, et. al. Hilarious stuff! OK, so I've got the show on in the background now so I can at least get the jokes. So sue me...

I'm still around!

...and still unrepentant! :-)

I lost touch with the blogosphere during a holiday vacation week away from frequent Internet access, and have yet to catch up on reading my favorite blogs, much less posting here. (The accumulation of interesting stuff to read really does become a daunting virtual "pile" in short order!) But I do hope to pick this up and get the momentum going again before too long... Until I make the time to start writing substantive posts, I may slip into "linkblogging" and short-post mode for a little while...

Among other happy discoveries, I've been greatly enjoying the recently launched "Glenn and Helen Show" podcast, put together by Instapundit Glenn Reynolds and his wife Dr. Helen. I've been a big fan of Glenn's widely read (to say the least) blog, and he brings the same refreshingly level-headed and inquisitive approach to the podcasts that comes through in his prolific posting. The interesting topics and interviewees have been plentiful. Don't miss the lastest episode: another conferene-call interview with the ever-engaging, thought-provoking informative and irreverent Austin Bay and Jim Dunnigan. Available (free) via the iTunes Music Store, Yahoo, and wherever fine podcasts are aggregated...! Listen and enjoy!