Mom Always Said If You Don't Have Something Nice To Say...

Sometimes, you just have to shake your head...

Freed from his life sentence, the Lockerbie bomber was sent home by the Scots on compassionate grounds because he had 'just three months' to live.

But six months later, Abdelbaset Ali Mohamed al-Megrahi is still living - and doing it in the lap of luxury.

Yesterday, his elderly father even held out the prospect of him beating the prostate cancer that doctors said would kill him by last Christmas.

I'm sure the Brits will excuse this by telling everyone that eventually, he will die.

Disgusting

File this in the Things I Will Never Understand Department...

Film maker Roman Polanski, under house arrest in Switzerland and fighting extradition to the United States, won the best director award at the Berlin film festival on Saturday for political thriller "The Ghost Writer."

I understand the argument that his art is independant of the man's actions, and perhaps worthy of being honored. I just think that many of the people who honor his work, or work with him (coughactorscough) are happy to be judgmental about other things or causes in the world. Yet they're willing to work with and honor a man who raped a child, and was convicted of it. Understand, I don't want his work censored by the government, but I'm wondering why folks in Hollywood simply won't boycott him.

I'm Thinking An Insanity Defense Might Work

The Amy Bishop story just gets weirder. I'm just posting this so that I can write the words "Herpes bomb."

Sometimes People Really Are Awful

There are people out there who are lower than pond scum, despite not being criminals. Cassy Fiano discusses one of them - a Marine's wife who left her then-deployed husband for a Marxist, then informed him by writing him a Dear John letter. It's bad enough that you do it... but bragging about it? And suggesting others do it? Ugh.

She's A Man, Baby

This may or may not be an argument against arranged marriage (especially since that term is used to define a wide range of different arrangements) It is a pretty good argument for better due diligence...

An Arab ambassador has called off his wedding after discovering his wife-to-be who wears a face-covering veil is bearded and cross-eyed.

The envoy had only met the woman a few times, during which she had hidden her face behind a niqab, the Gulf News reported.

After the marriage contract was signed, the ambassador attempted to kiss his bride-to-be. It was only then that he discovered her facial hair and eyes.

(hat tip: Megan McArdle) Unfortunately, they don't identify the guy, which means we've unilaterally decided this is actually every single member of Iran's government. Yes, I know they're not Arabs, but that's beside the point.