Mark Steyn with disarming honesty mulls over his 2002 assertion that Osama Bin Laden was well and truly dead:

As things turned out, I was a tad, ah, premature

Read it for a reprise of some earlier Steyn classics, including various high-profile punters analysing Osama’s 2001 video message:

ROBERT FISK, foreign correspondent, The Independent, hanging upside down in Madam Fatima’s Discipline Parlour, Beirut:

I was struck, quite literally – ow! – by the very unIslamic tone of the purported confession. That cowboy imagery about “a strong horse and a weak horse” hit me immediately – aaaai-eeeee!

Then move on to Mark’s analysis of the Canadian election results:

Liberal Party of Canada Buried at Sea After Dying in Firefight

Sorry about the headline. Just trying to liven up the other news of the day. I think it’s fair to say the death of Osama bin Laden has reduced US coverage of today’s Canadian election from 0% of network airtime to 0.0000% of network airtime. So, in the interests of driving down Corner traffic to near undetectable levels, I thought I’d provide an update…

Go on. Treat yourself.