…you know what? I’ve changed my mind. I’m gonna go with the egg salad sandwich, instead…
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February 8, 2005
UNimpressive: “Annan Suspends Oil-For-Food Program Chief”
From the AP: Secretary-General Kofi Annan suspended the head of the U.N. oil-for-food program in Iraq and a senior official who dealt with contracts, following an independent investigation that accused them of misconduct, a spokesman said Monday. Benon Sevan, who was in charge of the $64 billion humanitarian program, and Joseph Stephanides, who heads the U.N. Security Council Affairs Division, were told Friday that they had been suspended with pay,
February 8, 2005
If instead of a dead old kleptocrat surrounded by a legion of horny, circumcised demons, Yassir Arafat were a Hooter’s waitress
Arafat: “Yes, I’m sure these have the 3-Mile Island sauce, Senator Kennedy. Now please, take your pinky out of my ass. I have other tables.”*
February 8, 2005
in which I decide to pass the buck, so that I can run to Best Buy and pick up the new Malcolm X DVD
Everything you wanted to know about the Eason Jordan affair but couldn’t possibly expect me to write about—this being a rather one–dimensional little Jew humor blog and all… Oh. And as long as we’re on the subject of one-dimensional Jew humor blogs…throw me a bone, willya?
February 8, 2005
University of Colorado Ethnic Studies professor and anti-American firebrand Ward Churchill explains to 70s Kung-fu expert and counterculture icon Billy Jack his CONTINUED comparison of 911 victims to Nazi Adolph Eichmann
“So then I look Paula Zahn right in the eye and say, ‘I don’t believe I owe an apology, baby. I don’t know if the people of 9-11 specifically wanted to kill everybody that was killed. It was just worth it to them in order to do whatever it was they decided it was necessary to do that bystanders be killed. And that essentially is the same mentality, the same
February 8, 2005
Odd, ends
1. Thanks so much to Mac for the Kinji Fukasaku Yakuza flicks. These films influenced a lot of important American actioners of the ‘70s, an epochal genre that includes some of my favorite films (eg. Friedkin’s The French Connection, or Don Siegel’s Dirty Harry); sincere thanks also to PATRICK SENNETT [whom I confused with the actor Jack Thompson] for The Masterworks Edition of Breaker Morant—a film I haven’t yet seen
February 7, 2005
Pilgrim’s Progress
From the Corner’s John Derbyshire, posted under the headline “SPURIOUS ACADEMIC DISCIPLINES “: English, of course. We math and science students used to have royal fun scoffing at the Eng Lit crowd. “They’re going to give you a degree JUST FOR READING NOVELS? Hooo hooo hooo!” I still think it’s a joke. Even more of a joke now than it was back in the 1960s, in fact: the folk we
February 7, 2005
9 important differences between accused child molesting pop star Michael Jackson and a toasted english muffin
Michael Jackson: proud owner of a giraffe and a monkey; a toasted english muffin: somewhat reluctant owner of nooks and crannies. Apply butter to a toasted english muffin and the butter melts; apply butter to Michael Jackson and he giggles and calls you “Mr Teasy Tease.” It’s legal for a 9 year old boy to eat a toasted english muffin Very rarely will you ever hear anyone order a Spanish
February 6, 2005
My place in the news universe, defined
Like Malkin and LGF before me, protein wisdom has been denied status as a Google News site—though my rejection email was somewhat different in tone than the ones Michelle and Charles posted on their sites. To wit: Hi Jeff, Thank you for your note. We have reviewed https://www.proteinwisdom.com but cannot include it in Google News at this time. I mean, “bowery mongrels”? Ms. Janeane Garofalo crammed into a “Tandoori bread