Brennan Hawkins has been found alive, the Boy Scouts of America has confirmed. The 11-year-old had been missing since Friday and is said to be in great shape. (via FOXNews) Wow. Guess I’ll be signing S*tchel up for the Scouts. Unless the ACLU succeeds in shutting down the organization before he’s old enough, I mean.
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June 21, 2005
Summer Lovin’, Redux
Jessica Cutler (aka Washingtonienne) is back in the news! From the Corner’s Jonathan H. Adler: Remember the Washingtonienne? The staffer for Senator Mike DeWine who got her moment of fame by writing an anonymous blog about her sexual exploits with various political types? Well, her book—a “fictionalized” account of her story—has just been published, but she faces a lawsuit for invading the privacy of one of her many sexual partners
June 21, 2005
University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill and 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack discuss the social and aesthetic eventualities of Billy’s imminent return to the silver screen
“I don’t know, Billy. I think you’re taking an awful big chance coming out of retirement like this. I mean, don’t get me wrong, it’s not you—you’re still the man. It’s the medium, brother. Film. Today’s anti-authoritarian social texts, such as they are, take the form of video games and graphic novels. Movies these days are all about packaging and commodification. The only artistic thing about them is the marketing.”*
June 21, 2005
Cristy Lane: The Lost Recordings, 4
Recorded at Legend Studio, Pascagoula, Mississippi, June 1979, but never released.* “Lord Train” for Jimmie People all over the world (all you sinners) Join hands (in prayer) Start a LORD train, LORD train People all over the world (all the fallen, now) Join hands (ride HIM) Start a LORD train (LORD ride), LORD train The next stop that we make will be soon Tell all the sinners in Russia, and
June 20, 2005
Another moment of unabashed pragmatism
Always leave ‘em wanting more. Unless, that is, you have no stake in what they want—in which case, whatever.
June 20, 2005
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST looks into the case of missing Alabama student Natalee Holloway
Fact: The Savanna Lodge, located along Natural Bridge Road (Matividiri 57), boasts Aruba’s largest ostrich farm and serves ostrich dishes in a savanna-style cookout setting, complete with torches and campfire, overlooking the island’s rugged North Coast. Fact: Ostriches belong to the ratites and are the only members of their family, Struthionidae. They live in nomadic groups of 5–50 animals that often travel together with other grazing animals; toothless, they swallow
June 19, 2005
A Happy Father’s Day post for all the fathers, by Satchel (updated)
Enjoy the paper plate with the macaroni glued to it, Pops! It was a labor of love.
June 19, 2005
a half-hearted attempt to reaffirm my conservative bona fides, 3
America, love it or leave it. You hippie freak.