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The nerve of this guy .

Charles Krauthammer : Even though I believed that the George Bush/Donald Rumsfeld-led war in Iraq was never going to have any significant setbacks at all, I have little-to-no confidence in the American judicial system . Eugene Robinson : The odds that Khalid Sheik Mohammed will be doing "Jihad Hero" during his trial, or even escape like a Batman villain out of Arkham Asylum is very unlikely .

Thank you, Cracked.com .

Allen Iverson's available , ya'll! I never thought I'd say this though: The Wizards don't need him . Actually it's cool that I can say that.

I'd do this too to avoid a coaching change . Health Care wasn't the only thing being stalled . Death by trash compactor . 'Nuff said. Still trying to cut some costs . Tell me again why stem cell research is so controversial?

Haroon Saleem of Granite Falls, Washington won the election for the city's mayor. And he's...*gasp*...MUSLIM! But for some reason the townsfolk don't seem to be too bothered . Saleem said he was nervous about being accepted, and hired a white assistant manager to ease local concerns when he opened his bar in 2000. "I was kind of scared, you know," he says. But he was embraced virtually from the start. "That tells you how good and great of a community Granite Falls is," he says with a slight accent. "They didn't care ... I am who I am, and people love me for that, and I just love people. People know that I am smart, I am a businessman. In the big scheme of things, all these qualities have made me, got me to where I am today." So if a small town in America can ( for the most part ) embrace someone who's of a different religion, why can't the party who claims to speak for small town A...

Only a few days after the ex-Governor appear to plug her new book, Oprah decides to quit in 2011 . Coincidence? I think not. Seriously, though: how weird would it be if Palin gets into the talk show game, and became the new Oprah?

Wisdom : That's Jamison. He's the "old warhorse;" the cranky old man who been there/seen that. Power : That's Arenas. He's got the star power, the charisma, and the attention of the opposing team's defense. Courage : That's Butler. He's not called "Tuff Juice" for nothing. I think last night's game showed that all three are key to victory , particularly in regards to the postseason/upper echelon element. Last year with just Jamison and Butler we saw a squad that lacked the special treatment that a team's best player receives, both from the opposition and the referees. Early on this season we saw a sullen star and his tough-yet-inconsistent teammate trade quips via the media instead of keeping that talk in the locker room. And while we haven't seen much of a Arenas/Jamison duo here, I'm sure it would be just as incomplete a product. I guess the bottom line here is this: to call Arenas, Butler and Jamison the Big Three is no...

...and I got this . And this . Thanks, Internet!

Nice to have an AG who's willing to talk to the people, especially the families of the 9/11 victims . The Senate tries to get healthy ...and Reid marks an invisible line in the sand. Fighting for the right to bare laundry . The President wants answers .