IF YOU'RE ONE OF MY handful of readers from MIT and Harvard, here's the anti-divestment from Israel petition, whose signatories outnumber the Chomsky divestment petition by more than 7 to 1.

RESOLUTION OF A "Petition to the Natidnal Labor and Relation for the Labor Board to Review and Enforce All of Tolefree Precise in All of His Files and Lawsuit and Enforce All of Tolefree Afotiri Contracts in All of His Files Reason Violation of Tolefree Civil Rights Amed Broken Contract and Other."

DANIEL FRANK, the third-funniest man in Austin, notes that the Vagina Monologues missed a casting opportunity. And, via Frank, I learn of Mark Evanier's fascinating blog, which includes a link to a Harpo Marx sound clip.

FREE submachine-gun training just outside of Las Vegas. I almost want to make a weekend out of it.

A NUMBER OF BLOGGERS HAVE been excited by Scientology's recent payment of $8 million and change in the Wollersheim lawsuit. I'm not sure why. Sure, it's a setback to the extent that Scientology had a slogan of "not one dime to Larry Wollersheim." But this was a suit that was brought in 1980. Okay, some of that 22 years of litigation was waiting for appellate courts to decide appeals. But I don't know a lot of law firms looking forward to 22-year court battles in the hope of collecting a $3 million contingency fee. And if Scientology had given up the ghost a little earlier, that judgment would be substantially smaller -- two thirds of it is interest that accumulated at 10% over several years.

YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED that I haven't posted much on the Middle East lately. That's because, as I mentioned recently, I discovered Charles Johnson's site. Everything I find, lgf has already written about. I've stopped looking for material on the subject in the press, and just read his synopses of what's going on. I need another niche.

DEPARTMENT OF WILD COINCIDENCES. John Malkovich's favorite anti-American reporter, Robert Fisk, whines that people called him on his atrocious commentary. No big deal: we're used to the lunatic left claiming martyrship status for themselves for spitting in the wind. Catch, however, his utter cluelessness, writing in May 2002:

But the e-mails that poured into The Independent over the next few days bordered on the inflammatory. The attacks on America were caused by "hate itself, of precisely the obsessive and dehumanising kind that Fisk and Bin Laden have been spreading," said a letter from a Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA.

Talk about missing the story: Professor Judea Pearl of UCLA is the father of murdered reporter Danny Pearl.

UPDATE: Credit where credit is due: H.D. Miller posted about the same thing 36 minutes before I did.

I'M CLEARLY IN the wrong business:

[Steve Soifer] offers a three-day workshop for shy bladders, held monthly in cities in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain. It costs $300 to attend. The first day is a group counseling session. During the second day, attendees gorge themselves on water and then, in pairs, practice voiding in their hotel bathrooms. In this exercise, one man stands at the toilet while his partner stands a comfortable distance behind him. As the first man begins to urinate, his partner inches closer, eventually standing directly behind the man, sometimes touching or razzing him as he urinates, to re-create the feel of a busy public restroom. The closing event of the workshop, which Soifer calls the "graduation ceremony," is held in a bathroom at a train station, airport, or, occasionally, a ballpark.

INSTAPUNDIT has excerpts of Dershowitz tearing Chomsky to shreds, and a first-hand account of the Israeli art students.

SIMPSONS MEET PULP FICTION. (via Beam)