German “officials” (not doctors?) tell Der Spiegel that Abdul Rahman seemed “very confused” in 2000. (So were all the people who spent billions to fix the millenium bug.) A brother is quoted as saying Abdul has been “mad for years,” and, hilariously, “He has had delusions the whole time that someone is persecuting him and wants to kill him.” Remember that previous allegations from Rahman’s family members, printed in TIME, were all colored by his “rejection of Islam.” If he was so batty, why is there no record of him being treated or hospitalized, anywhere, at any time?

Well, we don’t know the whole story, obviously. But Hamid Karzai thanks the Germans for the assist, as he tries to convince the disappointed head-choppers that releasing the crazy Christian was the right thing to do.

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Another example of the promise of embryonic stem cells being fulfilled … without the use of embryonic stem cells.

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A study of over a thousand middle school students, taking over two years to complete, has found evidence that watching sexy TV shows makes kids think about sex more, and engage in more of it too.

Next, they should do a study to see whether watching commercials featuring delicious-looking, sizzling hamburgers makes people want to eat at McDonald’s more, or whether all that advertising moolah would have been better donated to RightWingBob.com.

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Reader Lorenzo e-mails a link to this gloomy view of the future on author Dan Simmon’s web site. Oblique Dylan connection, if you need it, would be all the references to Thucydides, the Athenian general and historian whom Dylan lingers on a bit in his book Chronicles.

Addendum: This article by Efraim Karsh at OpinionJournal.com, on “Islam’s Imperial Dreams,” is a good companion piece (via LGF).

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Dylan’s set list from Stockton, California. There are insinuations from the reviewers that Dylan has had his keyboard set to “organ,” or some similar sound, rather than “piano,” but it’s not one hundred percent clear so far.

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