But I can’t quite put my finger on it…. **** update: Anne Frank, maybe?
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February 1, 2005
9 names the UN would PREFER we give to the “not genocide” in Darfur
“Refugee Bingo” “The Sudenese government presents, Darfur on Ice!” “Just a few silly Arab militia men sowing their oats” “David Blaine’s The Incredible Disappearing Civilians of Displeasing Ethnicity” “People Pruning” “Mulching the Desert” “No Chocolate Wednesdays” “That little African misunderstanding” “‘Extreme Makeover’: The Dark Continent edition”* **** more.
February 1, 2005
It’s just like Bill to steal my birthday thunder by holding an anniversary party TODAY
But happy anniversary just the same, Bill. Were I a genie, I’d give the gift of having Peter Fonda inside you.
February 1, 2005
A note to those Hamilton College and University of Colorado students who are defending anti-American fire brand Ward Churchill on the grounds that his inflammatory rhetoric “makes people think”
Ward Churchill is the intellectual equivalent of a streaker. His wannabe-provocative rhetoric “makes you think” in roughly the same way that a bouncing penis flashing across the stage during an awards ceremony or a graduation “makes you think.” That is, it makes you think, “Wow. There goes a bouncing penis.”* Having said that, the University of Colorado granted this lanky-haired mudflap tenure. And a public university threatening to fire a
February 1, 2005
Happy Birthday to Me!
Well, I asked for a snowboard, but I suppose a borderline retard is nice, too… Anyway, it’s the thought that counts. **** update: The joy is spreading!
February 1, 2005
Scenes from an Italian Restaurant
Billy Joel: “A bottle of red. A bottle of white. Whatever kind of mood you’re in tonight…” Former supermodel Christie Brinkley: “Oh for Chrissakes, must we do this every time, Billy? Just give me my goddamn check, okay?”
January 31, 2005
Man, these “we are sorry” crackpots are nothing if not tenacious, eh?
**** update: variations on a theme. **** update 2: And another. And another! And ibid.
January 31, 2005
“Judge Backs Guantanamo Detainee Challenges”
AP: A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights. A federal judge ruled Monday that foreign terror suspects held in Cuba can challenge their confinement in U.S. courts and she criticized the Bush administration for holding hundreds of people without legal rights. Judge Joyce Hens
January 31, 2005
Debunking pop-cultural myths, 3
If pressed, many blue collar workers living in or around Milwaukee in the mid-to-late 1950s would readily admit that the world of “Happy Days” is an absurd reflection of the cultural ethos as they remember it. A more accurate description might be something like, “Asbestos Days,” or “Laverne and Shirley Get Knocked Up by Poor Germanic Toughs and Wind Up Whores Hooked on Smack by Early 1962.”