Here and There, Mar. 27

Today is my wedding anniversary. Irene asked me to mention that our wedding day was the happiest day of my life and that the last four years have been the happiest years of my life. She didn't have to ask, I would have mentioned that anyway, because they were. May we have at least another fifty happy years ahead of us.

Unavoidable Pun Watch Glenn Reynolds writes about the "oral argument" in the Texas sodomy case. Along those lines, I can't help but note that the State of Texas' opposition to natural human behavior is, well, go read this.

It's probably a good thing that there were no instant public opinion polls back in 1861 and no embedded CNN reporters covering the first week of the Civil War. If the spinmeisters of doom can portray our overwhelming successes in Iraq as "not going well", imagine what they might have done with the opening days of the war between the states, which included the Confederate victory at Fort Sumter and the secession of Virginia?

Al Jazeera Watch: The Al Jazeera website has moved to a new hosting provider and is currently offline.

UPDATE (5:23pm) The aforementioned "new hosting provider" was the result of a low-tech hack attack. The website is now back online and hosted in ... France! (The URL for the English language site still points to the Arabic site)

Baby Doc Assad fears becoming the next target of the US-led pro-sanity coalition. "We will not wait until we become the next target," he was quoted as saying. It is not clear, however, what he intends to do to avoid becoming the next target.

Iraq fired a missile (possibly a Scud) into Kuwait a few hours ago. Fortunately, the Kuwaitis have Andre Agassi to protect them.

Posted by Stefan Sharkansky at March 27, 2003 05:23 PM