Below The Beltway

Its been awhile since I’ve linked to the weekly collection of blog posts from around the Old Dominion, so I’ve sort of lost count, but this week’s edition of the Virginia Blog Carnival is up at The Virginia Progressive. Head over there and find out why Virginia is home to the best damn bloggers around.

Apparently, while Germans may love David Hasselhoff, Iraqis love Lionel Richie
May 19, 2006 ??I have been to Iraq nine times since the American invasion three years ago, for a total of about 10 solid months. (My wife is counting.) During that time, I have seen bombs and blood, I have seen rebuilding and restructuring, and [...]

Carnival of Liberty 46 is up at Left Brain Female. Its been some time since I’ve contributed something to the Carnival myself, but there’s a great collection of posts this week, so go check it out.

And so we come to the end of another season of 24.
The traitors have been brought to justice, even, apparently, the President himself in what I can only describe as one of the most jaw-opening moments of television I’ve watched in the past several years. Of course, the arrest of Charles Logan still doesn’t answer [...]

From CNN:
BUDAPEST, Hungary (Reuters) — Monkeys and apes at the Budapest Zoo drink their way through 55 liters of red wine each year, albeit in small quantities each day, to help boost their red blood cells, the zoo said Monday.
Budapest Zoo spokesman Zoltan Hanga said it was the 11 anthropoid apes who drank most of [...]

And Barry Bonds does it with drugs.
OAKLAND, Calif. — Barry, meet the Babe. Barry Bonds tied Babe Ruth for second place on the career list with his 714th home run Saturday, ending a nine-game drought with a shot into the first deck of elevated stands in right-center leading off the second inning against the Oakland [...]

I will admit that I haven’t read Dan Brown’s The Da Vinci Code, and I have no real ambition to see the movie by the same name. Its not my style of fiction, and I’ve read so much about both the book and the movie that any suspense that might have existed would be completely [...]

Last month, I wrote about the departure of LLP Community founder Eric Cowperthwaite from the blogosphere. Well, that time has come, and its time for me to take over the reins of the LLP Community.
This post will serve as a permalink for the community and an introduction for new members, and will be updated as [...]

As the Space Shuttle Discovery prepares for another pointless trip to the International Space Station in July, NASA is apparently worried that another mission gone wrong could bring a premature end to the program.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - NASA rolled the space shuttle Discovery onto a launch pad on Friday hoping to leave behind problems [...]

As the possibility of war with Iran becomes more likely by the day, the Islamic Republic is apparently doing its best to imitate the Third Reich.
Human rights groups are raising alarms over a new law passed by the Iranian parliament that would require the country’s Jews and Christians to wear coloured badges to identify them [...]