“Don’t look at me, pal. If you’d bother to slap a tan on those milky thighs of yours, I’d look just like a tattoo of Earl Campbell. ” — At which point you’d be thanking me, is how cool that would be.”
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June 18, 2007
You're threatened by one religion, you're threatened by them all
Yeah, I know. The term “moral relativism” is often thrown around with too little rigor. But in this case, well, you decide… **** related: 72% of atheists find curly fries as threatening as Hasidic Jews. Which, that just seems silly, if you ask me.
June 18, 2007
Thanks! (updated with request)
To Jocelyn Rowley, for her Amazon contribution, and to David Tweeten, for the DVD of Merchant and Ivory’s trippy Savages. Very much appreciated! A few site notes: 1. We’re working on the PW Pub, which will be a satellite site for guest posters and those who want to carry on conversations outside of PW proper. Posts from that site will occasionally be plucked and placed on the PW main site,
June 18, 2007
a post that mimics an actual blog post, even as it's meant (meta-secretly) to test certain Word Press functions
From the AP: District Attorney Mike Nifong was disbarred Saturday for his “selfish” rape prosecution of three Duke University lacrosse players – a politically motivated act, his judges said, that he inexplicably allowed to fester for months after it was clear the defendants were innocent. “This matter has been a fiasco. There’s no doubt about it,” said F. Lane Williamson, the chairman of the three-member disciplinary committee that stripped the
June 15, 2007
Cream of Wheat [Dan Collins]
A man widely believed to be the model for the smiling chef on Cream of Wheat boxes finally has a grave marker bearing his name. Frank L. White died in 1938, and until this week, his grave in Woodlawn Cemetery bore only a tiny concrete marker with no name. On Wednesday, a granite gravestone was placed at his burial site. It bears his name and an etching taken from the
June 15, 2007
Song of the Three Yaddas [Dan Collins]
What if love is just imperious soma, Spume of hormones and the baying blood? And what if all I do is dream in coma, Mind unillumed by some alter god? Still the day appears anew in east a-crimsoned, Arising solemn from dark hills behind. Still I thirst for air and pine for pleasure, Still I hunger for more “love” in kind. My feet do feel as though they trip this
June 15, 2007
“UN extends forces mandate in Iraq”
From Al Jazeera: The United Nations has extended its mandate for US-led forces in Iraq after the country’s foreign minister said they were “vitally necessary†for security and regional stability. Hoshyar Zebari called the UN security council’s move “very positive for Iraqâ€Â. He said all Security Council members understood “what the Iraqi government is facingâ€Â, illustrated by the bombing of Samarra’s Askariya shrine on Wednesday by “terrorists … seek to
June 15, 2007
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST celebrates the 792nd anniversary of the writ of habeas corpus
—Which, to be honest, I’d forgotten all about, until the ACLU sent me an automated email. At which point I dutifully yanked myself off the couch, thanked the four hobos I’ve been keeping as wash room attendants for their tireless towel and condom service, and handed them each a fiver and slice of buttered bread before unchaining them and forcing them out into the yard with the business end of
June 15, 2007
On Judicial Activism and Media Complicity
Stuart Taylor, in The National Journal, on the May 29 SCOTUS Title VII Ledbetter ruling—5-4, with the conservatives in the majority—which the NYT opined, “struck a blow for discrimination this week”: Are Alito and company really such heartless, pro-discrimination brutes? Hardly. Ginsburg’s dissent was well put. But Alito had the better of the argument as to congressional language and the Court’s own precedents, in my view. And as a policy