For the last year or so, I had been under the impression, thanks to a tip from a former colleague usually well-versed in such matters, that in the great divide over Irish whiskeys, Catholics supposedly drink Bushmills while Protestants prefer Jameson. But as of yesterday, it was pointed out to me that I have it reversed, since Jameson is distilled in Cork while Bushmills comes from the north. No doubt Galley readers, drinking connoisseurs all of you, can confirm this. But if true, it will be hard to switch labels.

For as the saying goes, Once you go Black Bush, you never go…

I just turned on The Golden Girls and found a baby-faced Don Cheadle guest-starring.

Who knew.

Update: With Cheech Marin! In the same episode!

Joe Loconte has the line of the day on the subject of recent anti-terrorist fatwas:

Others complain that the rulings don’t come from the centers of gravity of the Islamic world–from authorities in Mecca or legal scholars at al-Azhar University in Cairo. Mamoun Fandy, a fellow at the Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University, puts it dryly: “A fatwa from Brooklyn or the National Press Club–that’s not where Muslims go to get their fatwas.”

I imagine a sign over a mosque in The Simpsons proclaiming “Where Muslims go to get their fatwas.”

More from the most powerful blogger in America:

As a reminder, Scarborough was a Florida congressman who cheated on his wife and ultimately led to his divorce (and unexpected resignation in 2001). That part is just typical hypocrisy from a “family values” Republican. This part isn’t:

Around the time of the Condit/Levi craziness, another congressional intern/aide died under mysterious circumstances — Lori Klausutis. The press generally ignored it for obvious reasons — her boss was a Republican. Congressman Scarborough, to be exact. This summary is from a Wikipedia entry Scarborough successfully got deleted:

Nearly two months after announcing his resignation, on July 10, 2001, one of Scarborough’s aides, Lori Klausutis, was found dead in the congressman’s office in Fort Walton Beach, Florida. The official cause of death was a heart failure, although her initial autopsy suggested severe fractures in the skull. The investigation was never pursued further, and Scarborough was never implicated in Klausutis’ death. Two suspects, Theopholis and Steve Salmon were initially questioned by police. Both men have been released, but are still considered “persons of interest”.

My bet is that there’s nothing libelous here, but surely this goes far, far beyond the bounds of any conceivable notion of propriety, no? I mean, do elected Democratic officials really want to associate themselves with this?

I’m sure others have noticed this, but don’t they look an awful lot alike?

TVNewser catched Katie Couric in a small, but telling faux pas. Puffing a guest on the Today Show, Couric introduced Donny Deutsch as being the host of a “highly-rated” CNBC show. I’m sure she didn’t mean anything by this–it’s like Jay Leno introducing Ben Affleck as a “big star.”

But the facts are a little inconvenient. As TVNewswer points out, the previous night Deutsch’s show grabbed 54,000 total viewers. That’s a pretty low rating, even by garbage cable standards.

If Couric were Jay Leno, no one would care, but isn’t Today supposed to be run out of the news, not the entertainment, division?

Hugh Hewitt points us to this James Lileks piece, which is incredibly funny, even by his own standards:

According to the hard left’s script, Israel was created when some Europeans (hisssss) invaded the sovereign nation of Palestine, even though we all know the Jewish homeland is somewhere outside Passaic, N.J. Then for no reason Israel invaded the West Bank and Gaza — which for some reason had not been set up as New Palestine by the Egyptians and the Jordanians, but never mind — and made everyone stand in line and get frisked. Those who joined the line in ’67 are just getting through now. Evil Zionists. . . .

The companies the church wishes to pressure include Caterpillar, which makes bulldozers purchased by the Israelis for the sole purpose of knocking down innocent homes of gentle lamb herders, and Motorola, which among other things sells night-vision goggles that give the Israeli Defense Forces an unfair advantage over people who want to smuggle in bombs to encourage the social-justice dialogue.

If you’re a Lost junkie (I’m not), you might get a charge out of these theories about the show from the cast.