Below The Beltway

Angelina Joile joins the Council On Foreign Relations

Apparently, the conspiracy has changed its recruitment tactics.

Archeologists are casting serious doubt on James Cameron’s supposed Jesus tomb:
Stephen Pfann, a biblical scholar at the University of the Holy Land in Jerusalem who was interviewed in the documentary, said the film’s hypothesis holds little weight.
“I don’t think that Christians are going to buy into this,” Pfann said. “But skeptics, in general, would like […]

It’s getting almost no coverage from the media but it was fourteen years ago today that a group of Muslim terrorists set off a truck bomb inside the parking garage below Tower One of the World Trade Center. Though there were a few deaths, they didn’t succeed in bringing down the towers, which was apparently […]

It’s been almost two months since the Ohio State Buckeyes lost a shocking National Championship Game to the Florida Gators and its clear the pain hasn’t gone away:
Tressel spoke to a crowd of about 400 at the Pro Football Hall of Fame Luncheon Club, one of the few speaking engagements he’s had in Ohio since […]

This post is getting quite alot of Google hits —- more than 2000 since yesterday according to Sitemeter. There’s also quite a lively discussion going on in the comment thread.
Cool.

As a fan of jazz and singers like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald, the state of popular music today is, to me at least, quite distressing. Instead of songs that actually force you to listen to them and understand them, we have the bubble-gum sounds of Madonna and Britney Spears. And don’t even get me […]

Now, he’s an Oscar winner:
(AP)?Former vice president Al Gore used the success of his documentary, “An Inconvenient Truth” to expand his efforts to educate people about global warming _ and to tell a few jokes.
The film turned Gore’s road show about climate change into a film that won Academy Awards for best documentary and best […]

It’s been almost eighteen hours since the snow stopped falling, and things still aren’t back to normal around here:
Yesterday’s slush-turned-snowstorm had been mostly plowed and shoveled by this morning, but many schools said they would open two hours late and several school systems in the outer Virginia suburbs closed altogether.
What started as chilly rain Sunday […]

I won’t be watching the Academy Awards tonight. Generally, I find awards shows to be annoying to begin with and the Oscar’s — filled as they are with the MPAA’s self-congratulations — to be the most annoying of all. Add to that the fact that I have only seen one of the Best Picture nominees […]

It’s snowing here in the Washington, DC area this morning. A pretty snow this time, not the ice and sleet we got ten days ago. We’ll be stuck inside, but that’s okay.
Of course, there’s one member of the family who insists on being outside: