Star Wars: An exercise in literary explication, courtesy Bill the Pundit Guy (The Jedi Council as traditional Catholic Church), Dean Esmay (original trilogy as collection of archetypal signifiers that lend themselves to endless allegorical attachments), and Nick Gillespie (medieval Knight-errant tale, ala Gawain). All very interesting. Personally, I’ve always seen Lucas’s sweeping intergallactic epic as a thinly-veiled wish-fulfillment narrative penned by a soft-spoken dork, with Lucas as Luke, and the

“Did you catch the latest bit of revisionist nonsense being trumpeted by the white Establishment press?  The Keetoowah Cherokees—my Keetoowah Cherokees—released a statement yesterday suggesting all my past, present and future claims to Keetoowah ancestry are deemed fraudulent and ‘should be respected by all media, government and private institutions to be so.’ Can you believe that shit?  Sneaky Keetoowah motherfuckers probably traded my reputation for a casino deal and some

1.  Martha returns!  And she brings pie! 2.  Also returning is Pundit Review Radio— a nice bonus being that Newsweek International disappears as a result! 3.  Speaking of radio, “The CITIZEN JOURNALIST Report” is on indefinite hiatus. It’s all my fault.  I am to blame.  I am to blame.  I am to blame.  4.  Cold Play’s Chris Martin channels Che Guevara.  Or some such. Honestly?  If Kristofferson or the Marshall

…’the hell…?

yin:  “Just once I’d like you to validate my feelings.” yang:  “Just once I’d like you to dust, then make me a turkey club. And for Chrissakes, toast the bread this time, would you?  We don’t live in a freakin’ cave.”

“We thought it would bolster the morale of U.S. troops, who by and large are some demented and bloodthirsty Muslim haters to begin with, you have to admit.” “It’s unfortunate, sure.  But a lull in the Michael Jackson trial really kinda forced our hand…” “BUSH LIED!” “Life is but a palimpsest, a layering of competing narratives each one manuevering for primacy of place in an endless historiographical manuscript written in

Karol Sheinin points me to this piece from the Columbia Journalism Review which, y’know, just wants to make it clear that Newsweek (and by extension the entirety of the elite liberal media, one gets the feeling) has not actually retracted its anti-US Q’uran-flushing story, but rather has temporarily and conditionally qualified it until such time as its editorial staff can find others to re-level the charges against US interrogators: What

Ouch.

From the AP: British lawmaker George Galloway vehemently rejected a Senate subcommittee’s claim that Saddam Hussein awarded him lucrative allocations under the U.N. oil-for-food program and accused its chairman of maligning his good name. The subcommittee, chaired by Minnesota Republican Norm Coleman, claimed that Galloway allegedly funneled allocations through a fund he established in 1998 to help a 4-year-old Iraqi girl suffering from leukemia and received allocations worth 20 million

Christ, do I love the kitties!  So fucking fluffy…! update:  Kitties most definitely aren’t full of crap.  No sir.  Kitties friggin’ rock!