Here’s a bunch of good stuff I found shadowing the “Shadow Media” - nomenclature I got via Ace of Spades who thinks along with the folks at The Corner that “Blogosphere” is too unwieldy. I always thought of Captain Nemo and the Nautilus using a blogosphere to traverse the uncharted depths…But then, if asked, I would have not named them “blogs” in the first place. How about “Webbies?” Or “O-Jo’s” for online journals?

Sheesh. Hugh Hewitt will never link to me again…

John Little at Blogs of War links to a very funny video made by British soldiers in Iraq that’s so popular it’s crashing the Ministry of Defense Computers!

A group of soldiers who jokingly filmed a version of the video for the hit song (Is This The Way To) Amarillo? were coping yesterday with sudden stardom. And rather than being punished for acting like pop stars instead of privates from the Royal Dragoon Guards serving in Iraq, the Ministry of Defence has promised that none of them will be disciplined.

The MoD has offered the video to Comic Relief, which could use it to raise thousands of pounds for charity. The shakily filmed video ended up bringing one of Britain’s most sensitive computer systems to its knees, crashing the MoD’s e-mail system

La Shawn Barber has found “Some Holy Books are More Holy than Others.”

Physical objects are not to revered or worshiped, and they hold no “sacred” power. Islam obviously teaches something entirely different. I think it’s ridiculous for the United States to cater to prisoners of war in this way, no matter what their religion. But I don’t run anything except this blog.

Yes…and you do that quite well, thank you.

Kender informs us that Mae Magouirk has passed away. She was the 80 year old woman whose daughter thought she’d be happier “with Jesus” despite the fact that she had no brain damage and her condition was treatable:

Some people on the left are probably feeling a bit smug about this story today, much like they felt when Terri finally died.

Those same people are probably wringing their hands that people on the other side of the globe are dying in places that our military is stationed and wondering what they can do to stop the Big Bad Evil Bush War Machine.

Yup.

The Captain has been blogging the Canadian political crisis since its inception. It looks like things are about ready to come to a head:

Canada feels Ms. Parrish’s pain, waiting as they are for a resolution to the political crisis facing them in an almost-stalemated Parliament. The only prediction anyone can make now is that more potential vote-skewing developments will almost certainly occur between now and the vote.

God I almost wish we had a Parliament. Well, not really. But in the last two weeks they’ve had the Prime Minister buying votes with the budget, bribing a Tory to leave the party by giving her a cabinet post, more revelations of electoral shennanigans, etc.

I bet Canadian bloggers haven’t been suffering from writers block recently.

The Commissar has a special school for the Intelligent Design folks…They let kids decide what’s true. Example:

Chemistry - “Alchemy 666″ - Using the latest principles of Theodoric of York, the students will explore the wonders of transsubtantiation. Woot! They are going to have a special lab on converting lead into gold

Read it all…it’s a stitch.

Somebody get Beth at My Vast Rightwing Conspiracy an airsick bag. She’s found an Eason Jordan clone:

The more I look at this, I see that Ms. Foley is an avowed leftist with an axe to grind. For her it’s apparently all about the Pentagon being the bad guys (duh) who aren’t doing anything to protect journalists. She’s been wrapped up in efforts demanding investigations by the Pentagon for quite some time, so this latest thing isn’t surprising. She’s quite careful to not (publicly) accuse the military of targeting journalists outright, but she very CLEARLY implies it.

Giacomo of Joust the Facts links to an article by Charles Fried, former U.S. Solicitor General under President Reagan who makes a reasoned, powerful argument to bust the filibuster. Giacomo sums up:

The politics was decided, at this moment in time at least, in the 2004 election where Republicans not only kept but extended majorities in the House and Senate and President Bush was re-elected to a second term. Yes, it was close, but name the last Democratic president who got a larger percentage of the total vote. (Hint: you’ve got to go back 40 years.)

Majority rule. It’s a simple democratic concept. You would think elected public officials would understand it.

Giacomo is the optimistic sort, isn’t he…especially when it comes to Senate Democrats.

Van Helsing serves up his specialty - Moonbat Guacamole. He’s blogging the LA Mayorl contest won by Antonio Villaraigosa - a full blown Hispanic moonbat of the first order who believes in Reconquista; returning California and much of the Southwest to Mexico:

Villaraigosa is former Chairman of the UCLA chapter of MEChA, a racist and seditious group devoted to the “Reconquista” of the Southwestern United States. The Reconquista is going well for the Mexicans, as anyone aware of our government’s outrageous refusal to defend the border will probably agree.

In closely related news, a 66-year-old woman suffered “inner cranial trauma” when she was assaulted for daring to protest the anti-American Danzas Indigenas monument in Baldwin Park, California, which features inscriptions in support of the notion that California should be ruled by Mexicans.

What’s the Spainish word for “nutcase?”

Don’t forget TJ’s excellent News - Interesting - Funny (NIF) for the best links to both the new and old media on the web.

And finally, Ferdinand T. Cat has the question of the ages for this weekend’s titanic match-up between the forces of good and evil here in Chicago. It’s my Go-Go White Sox versus the evil, corporate toady’s from the North Side. And while diplomatic, Ferdinand better stay away from my Ebony who adores the White Sox and whose 25 pounds of ferocious fatness would take out Ferdy in a heartbeat.

South Side cats rule!