Wednesday afternoon update

- At left, a picture from this past weekend's anti-war protests in San Fran. How come no one ever asks about anti-Semitism on the far left in America?

- From the "Man Bites Dog" files, we have the incredible farting chair, here.

- Damian Penny asks where are the Canadian Islamic Congress and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (Canada) on the death sentence handed down to Afghanistan man Abdul Rhaman for converting to Christianity. And no condemnation from the Conservative cabinet.

Shame.

- The guy behind the guy - ex-Howard Dean campaign manager Joe Trippi - has found a new gig advising the Liberal Party how to steal defeat from the jaws of victory.

- Speaking of political operatives, Fred Barnes says it's time to shuffle the deck.

- David Warren makes a strong case for refusing to give aid to Hamas.

- After reading this, I believe that given the knowledge available at the time, anything short of an invasion would have been an abdication of responsibility. Despite his criticisms, Francis Fukuyama says that while the the intentions were proper, the strategy wasn't. One thing is for sure - Fukuyama would certainly agree that there were valid humanitarian reasons to take out the neo-Stalinist Hussein, even if the far Left would have preferred to bury their heads in the sand, just like most of the West did with Rwanda.