Mark Steyn submitted his regular column to the Telegraph, addressing the circumstances surrounding the beheading of Kenneth Bigley. The Telegraph, however, spiked the column and Steyn has posted the column at Steyn Online. Steyn speculates that the Telegraph "felt the column was a little heartless." He knows his editors better than I do, but I suspect that Steyn's evident contempt for Bigley might have been the least of it. In any event, don't miss this one: "The quality of Mersey." (Thanks to RealClearPolitics.)

UPDATE: See also Wretchard's fine post "Only the lonely" at the Belmont Club.

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