COMEDY GOES CONSERVATIVE: I don't know if anyone else has noticed this (I'm sure they have) but I just stumbled across this piece by comedian Larry Miller from "The Weekly Standard" that is both smart and funny. The subject: Johnny Taliban. Here's some choice lines:

Of course, many Americans on the call-in shows are rationalizing what he did. One mental giant reflected, "Let's not judge him too quickly. I did some wild things when I was nineteen, too." Like what, hack off feet in Sierra Leone? The Taliban was not a search for self.

Okay, everyone, from the top again, with feeling: The Taliban was a death cult, a collection of devils who skinned their own alive to maintain fear, who blasphemed every time they used the word "God," whose least horrible accomplishment was the vicious way they treated their women. They were a bloodlust burrito wrapped in heat and hate, so joining them wasn't a wacky alternative to interning for Amnesty International; it was evil.

Hopefully writing for "The Weekly Standard" won't damage his career.