‘Batman Begins’ was named 2005′s favorite film at the Total Film Readers’ Awards. I second that motion and raise you ten. ‘The Fog’ though wasn’t so good, or so Rob thinks.

The New York Times notes religion is showing up more and more into football playbooks at universities. ACLU President Nadine Strossen takes note.

Palestinian ‘militants’ have agreed to stop launching rocket attacks into Israel next week claiming Abbas has persuaded them. Are they sure the Israeli counter-strikes which have killed members of Islamic Jihad and Hamas wasn’t part of it? As Ed Morrisey notes, we’ve heard this before only to have a wave of attacks after a terrorist group cried uncle.

Jim at bRight & Early is conducting a survey of bloggers for nominations to the Supreme Court. My top choice was myself, but I don’t see my name getting much traction. My second choice was Michael Luttig. If you’re a blogger and want to participate, shoot Jim a line. The results, I expect, will be announced later this evening or tomorrow so make sure to check back in. Update: It appears the results will be found at this post later in the day.

It appears as if Mark Jaquith at Tempus Fugit is leaning towards Janice Rogers Brown. He pulled some quotes from an opponent to Brown to make his case for her. Confirm Them though states it’s between Alito and Luttig, thus putting a stop to Mark’s drool.

Did Prince Charles have anything to do with the beheading of three Christian school girls in Indonesia? Not exactly, but the Prince is planning on making a voyage to the United States to explain Islam to President Bush. And no, Islam isn’t all about violent acts, it’s just the violent acts in the name of Islam that disturbs us. Below the Beltway correctly notes the problem in the Prince’s position; “We are not at war against Islam, we are at war against Islamofacsism, an ideology that is as much political as it is religious and which is dedicated to violent confrontation with the Western world.” Perhaps there was too much inbreeding in royal family lines.

Arab League Secretary General Amr Mussa blames the lack of a withdrawal timetable in Iraq for causing instability. Then again, this comes from a group which failed to even consider sending Saddam Hussein into exile to prevent a war so take his words with a grain of salt.

Meanwhile Muslims in France are rioting, but they have been for a few days now. Some are wearing t-shirts with ‘Death for Nothing’ written accross it. Al Jazeera has now changed the term ‘suicide bombings’ to ‘paradise operations.’

Basil continues his blogger inteviews, this time with Kit Jarrell of Euphoric reality. At least Kit admitted her dependence upon Mountain Dew is troublesome. I’ve heard something disturbing about Yellow 5, but that’s probably just an urban myth.

McDonald’s in Scottsdale, AZ have been refurbished to become four-star restaurants. I don’t care what Scott says, I’m still not paying to eat a Big Mac even if I could reasonably now take a date to a ‘nice, four-star’ establisment at McDonald’s.

Black unemployent has gone down under President Bush, something the Al Sharpton’s and Jesse Jackson’s of the world will notably miss. Perhaps that’s because Bush hasn’t been able to rescue Sharpton from his enormous debt?

Innocent until indicted? Silly Matt, innocent until proven guilty is only applicable if you’re not a Republican. Just ask Howard Dean.

What? Vice President Dick Cheyney is sending Joe Wilson to discover who the CIA leaker is? Will Joe find out it was his own writings? Wait, it’s just satire, but pretty funny satire.

Andi continues to report of protests at Walter Reed, this time with the ‘peace mom’ herself who apparently just intended on using the restroom in the hospital. I just don’t get it, and perhaps I never will, but why is Code Pink protesting at a hospital where wounded soldiers are being treated? Do they have no sense of decency? I just answered my own question.

Firepower Forward is in Pakistan aiding the relief effort and has a series of posts worth reading. Head on over and just keep scrolling.

Turkeyhead finds a t-shirt stand at his local mall selling shirts emblazened with a CCCP logo on it and wonders if kids will buy one and wear it thinking they are cool. If people can wear a shirt with a murderous thug rebranded as a ‘revolutionary’ (that’s Che Geuvara for those keeping score), then sadly I’d say yes.

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