HERE’S AN IMAGE, from Kaus: “If Johnny Apple and Andrew Sullivan had a love child, he might find this editorial highly persuasive.”

THIS WEEK’S CARNIVAL OF THE RECIPES IS UP!

JOURNALIST AND NEWSPAPER GUILD MEMBER HIAWATHA BRAY is challenging Linda Foley to back up her Eason-Jordan-like statements, or to apologize:

Since then, you have failed to provide supporting evidence for your remarks, but neither have you retracted them. I spoke with you at 11:10 AM today by telephone; union secretary-treasurer Bernard Lunzer was also on the call.

When I told you that I would publish your response to me on the Internet, you declined further comment–except for the following: “I am not going to discuss this with you on the eve of Memorial Day weekend.”

This remark strikes me as extremely odd. I can’t think of a better time to redeem the honor of the US military by beginning a serious investigation of outrageous conduct on its part. If our soldiers are deliberately killing journalists, it’s our duty to publicize it, so that such a terrible stain on our nation’s integrity may be quickly cleansed.

If, as I believe, your charge is false, I can think of no better time to retract this slander.

Read the whole thing.

ON TRAVEL: Back later.

PAJAMAS MEDIA QUESTION NUMBER ONE: What does it mean to be “fair and balanced?”

FRENCH LEADERS SURRENDER:

THE leader of France’s ruling party has privately admitted that Sunday’s referendum on the European constitution will result in a “no” vote, throwing Europe into turmoil.

“The thing is lost,” Nicolas Sarkozy told French ministers during an ill-tempered meeting.

Heh.

THE DOG THAT DIDN’T BARK: Thomas Lipscomb notes another buried story in an Editor & Publisher column. “After all, Sherlock Holmes’s dog didn’t bark because he was good friends with the thief.”

ANOTHER BLOGGER BOOK: Being Good, by Todd Anderson, who also publishes Popshot Magazine.

Some parts remind me of my own life, back when I was a single twentysomething guy.

FORMER INSTAPUNDIT CORRESPONDENT Major John Tammes has started a new group blog with some of his friends. High point: “Say, it has now been 2 months and 6 days since anyone shot at me! I think a glass of port is in order.”

IT’S AS IF THEY’RE NEWSWEEK’S CORPORATE SIBLINGS OR SOMETHING:

In this morning’s coverage of Koran abuse allegations at Gitmo, the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, Boston Globe, Reuters, and Associated Press all mention in their lead paragraph that the Pentagon found no credible evidence that a guard flushed the Koran down a toilet. The Washington Post, on the other hand, does not bother to mention the Koran-flushing incident until its fourth paragraph and does not note until the thirteenth paragraph that the detainee who made that allegation has retracted it.

Tom Maguire, meanwhile, notes another omission that seems rather striking.

WITH THE RECENT WHITE HOUSE PHOTO-OP and discussion regarding “snowflake babies,” I just want to point out that InstaPundit was on top of this story — with original reporting, no less — way back in August of 2001.

Now Walter Shapiro is doing some similar math.

FUTUREBLOGGING: This week’s Carnival of Tomorrow is up, with an Ed Wood theme.

TIGERHAWK notes interesting developments regarding Syria.

NEAL BOORTZ is considering a career as a screenwriter.

53% OF AMERICANS say they’re likely to vote for Hillary Clinton in 2008?

Well, if she wins, I hope she lives up to her billing as “the most uncompromising wartime president in the history of the United States.”

More evidence of Hillary’s growing influence here.

ETHIOPIAN ELECTIONS UPDATE: The E.U. observers are very critical:

Ethiopia’s electoral board appears to have lost control of the vote counting for the May 15 legislative polls, European Union election observers said in a report obtained by The Associated Press on Wednesday.

The confidential report went on to say the EU might have to make a public denunciation of developments to distance itself from “the lack of transparency, and assumed rigging” of the vote

“Ten days after the polling day, the situation is of political uncertainty and informational chaos regarding the results of the election,” according to the confidential report.

What’s more, Jimmy Carter made the problem worse:

The EU report also said former U.S. President Carter, who led a team of 50 election observers, undermined the electoral process and EU criticism with “his premature blessing of the elections and early positive assessment of the results.”

Unless there is a “drastic reverse toward good democratic practice” the observer team and EU “will have to publicly denounce the situation.”

“Otherwise, the EU jointly with ex-President Carter will be held largely responsible for the lack of transparency, and assumed rigging, of the elections.”

It’s Venezuela all over again for Jimmy, apparently. Meanwhile, several thousand Ethiopian-Americans protested the elections, at the State Department.

YOU CAN LEARN A LOT SOMETIMES from reading people’s websites.

BILL HOBBS has the indictments in the Tennessee legislative corruption cases.

JOE GANDELMAN says it’s not nice to make fun of Arlen Specter’s cancer.

He’s right.

GREG DJEREJIAN says there’s nothing to the Bolton NSA intercept story.

VIDEO-FILLYBLOGGING, courtesy of my sister. (QT version here).

WILL PAJAMA-CLAD INTERNET ACTIVISTS BRING DOWN THE E.U.?

In cyberspace, a whole range of opinions – individual or on behalf of trade unions and anti-globalists group such as ATTAC – can be freely accessed, while “No” campaigners appear much more at ease with the Internet than the traditional party campaigners.

With an estimated 24 million internet users in France (out of a population of 60 million), it is an increasingly powerful tool.

Stanislas Magniant, at Publicis Consultants Net Intelligenz told one newspaper that in this campaign, France was seeing the beginning of real grass-roots militancy on the Internet.

Stay tuned.

LOOKING FOR MORE BLOG CARNIVALS? WHO ISN’T?

So check out the Carnival of Gamers, with game-related posts, and the Carnival of Comedy is, well, self-explanatory.

UPDATE: Don’t miss the latest storyblogging carnival, either.

HUGH HEWITT INTERVIEWED DANA MILBANK of The Washington Post. The transcript is posted here.

18 THINGS YOU CAN’T SAY ABOUT MUSLIMS IN ITALY, judging from the Oriana Fallaci case. (Via Volokh).