Sunday digest

- Why were these 9/11 perpetrators seen laughing on a newly-released video filmed about 21 months prior to the attacks? Perhaps it's because they knew they could count on academic types to deflect blame away from bloodthirsty Islamists like themselves and towards American society itself once their agenda of mass murder was carried out.

- Al Gore says cigarettes are a contributing factor to global warming.

Uhh, OK, Al.

(I wonder if his ex-boss is about to give up cigars upon hearing this news?)

- If you're going to report on the contents of a leaked national security document, shouldn't you at least report it accurately?

- Kids who live in Kitchener, Ontario, my home town, better not need stitches today unless their parents want to drive to Toronto or London for treatment.

- Speaking of kids, the UK's Children's Minister (Labour) says that institutionalized childcare isn't a great idea for those under the age of two (at the very youngest). I've always wondered about the effects of dropping kids off to spend eight hours a day in the company of strangers before they even know how to say their own names.

Or is that too Ward Cleaver of me to even bring that up?