Wow, the use of meth and the rise in meth labs around the country continues to spike. You wouldn't expect the relatively conservative Elkhart County, Indiana, to be #2 in the state in meth lab finds--but it is (in 2003, there were 9 meth labs discovered there; last year, 39).
Some in India fear that the terrorists who attacked in Mumbai and killed 195 people there may have originated in Pakistan. There are indications that tensions are rising between India and Pakistan; the two nations have long been hostile to each other.
As for the other, even larger, meaning of the attacks in India, Mark Steyn today has a good take on it:
"It’s not an either/or scenario, it’s all of the above. Yes, the terrorists targeted locally owned hotels. But they singled out Britons and Americans as hostages. Yes, they attacked prestige city landmarks like the Victoria Terminus, one of the most splendid and historic railway stations in the world. But they also attacked an obscure Jewish community center. The Islamic imperialist project is a totalitarian ideology: It is at war with Hindus, Jews, Americans, Britons, everything that is other....It’s missing the point to get into debates about whether this is the “Deccan Mujahideen” or the ISI or al-Qaeda or Lashkar-e-Taiba. That’s a reductive argument. It could be all or none of them. The ideology has been so successfully seeded around the world that nobody needs a memo from corporate HQ to act: There are so many of these subgroups and individuals that they intersect across the planet in a million different ways. It’s not the Cold War, with a small network of deep sleepers being directly controlled by Moscow. There are no membership cards, only an ideology. That’s what has radicalized hitherto moderate Muslim communities from Indonesia to the Central Asian stans to Yorkshire, and coopted what started out as more or less conventional nationalist struggles in the Caucasus and the Balkans into mere tentacles of the global jihad."
The Detroit Pistons won last night, and Allen Iverson apologized for blowing off practice.
Iverson appears to be generally contrite, and the Pistons appear satisfied with his explanation. But if there's another bump in the road in the relationship down the line, look for its effects on the Pistons to be far more long-lasting...and negative.
The Detroit Red Wings on last night as well, and now have 15 wins and only 3 losses on the season. See, Detroit fans, despite the woeful Lions, when it comes to pro sports there's still a lot to cheer for. (It's also good to remind fans in other cities of this. See, Detroit is not a city of losers.)
