Jay Nordlinger at the National Review links to this AP report, which he calls "delicious":

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — While Cuba played the Netherlands in the World Baseball Classic, a spectator in the stands raised a sign saying, "Down with Fidel," sparking an international incident . . .

The image of the man holding the sign behind home plate was beamed live Thursday night to millions of TV viewers — including those in Cuba. The top Cuban official at the game at Hiram Bithorn Stadium in San Juan rushed to confront the man.

Puerto Rican police quickly intervened and took the Cuban official — Angel Iglesias, vice president of Cuba's National Institute of Sports — to a nearby police station where they lectured him about free speech.

"We explained to him that here the constitutional right to free expression exists and that it is not a crime," police Col. Adalberto Mercado was quoted as saying in El Nuevo Dia, a San Juan daily.

A&L Daily links to this article from Foreign Policy on why the patriarchy is coming back, that is, if it ever left. This argument has been around for several years--society in the fairly near future will be more conservative than it is now, as a lot of the people being born have traditionally-minded parents. It's long, but well worth the read.

Niall Ferguson, in the Telegraph, uses the Lawrence Summers foofaraw as an analogy for why Bush is going to bomb the Iranian nuclear sites.

Here's Terry Teachout, an extremely well-known traditionalist music critic, on why the Beatles were the Beatles in Commentary.

I love Reason. Here's why all of Samuel Eto'o's efforts, which seem genuinely warm-hearted, to help poor folks in his home country of Cameroon are going to do no good at all.

This is Christopher Hitchens on why we should not cry over Slobo.

Urban Legends Reference Pages informs us that blondes will not go extinct in 200 years, no matter where you heard it from.

Here's Mark Steyn on Canadians who think it's important that everyone know they're not Americans.