[The Arab Street responds: “This is unacceptable! To depict freedom fighters and Islamic purists as villains is unconscionable! We are not to blame for death and destruction. It is you who is responsible: A Jew! Our esteemed academics have proven it so! It was you, after all, who attacked the Towers with the aid of Mossad — otherwise, why did not thousands of your kind show up for work at

[The Arab Street responds: “This is unacceptable! To depict freedom fighters and Islamic purists as villains is unconscionable! We are not to blame for death and destruction. It is you who is responsible: A Jew! Our esteemed academics have proven it so! It was you, after all, who attacked the Towers with the aid of Mossad — otherwise, why did not thousands of your kind show up for work at

Goin’ on my fourth Sapphire martini, y’all (the olives are habenero pepper-stuffed — de-lish!), and Steely Dan’s on the jukebox, doin’ “My Old School.” Next up? Alison Krauss, maybe. Or some old Styx. Anybody remember the song “Boat on the River” from the Cornerstone album? Tommy Shaw on lead vocals… Ah, yessssssss. G’night, folks… [update: …ooh, Gerry Rafferty…]

Goin’ on my fourth Sapphire martini, y’all (the olives are habenero pepper-stuffed — de-lish!), and Steely Dan’s on the jukebox, doin’ “My Old School.” Next up? Alison Krauss, maybe. Or some old Styx. Anybody remember the song “Boat on the River” from the Cornerstone album? Tommy Shaw on lead vocals… Ah, yessssssss. G’night, folks… [update: …ooh, Gerry Rafferty…]

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I had no idea Transterrestrial’s Rand Simberg was from Flint, Michigan. Nor that confirmed pastry glutton and cheesefry connoisseur Michael Moore was not. Well, ‘t seems Rand wants his hometown back. Here’s a sample of Rand’s Moore-ish rebuffery*: questioning the assertion made on Moore’s fansite that ol’ Lumpypants “worked several jobs, including one at Buick, which he quit on his first day,” Rand writes: How does one ‘work’ a job

I had no idea Transterrestrial’s Rand Simberg was from Flint, Michigan. Nor that confirmed pastry glutton and cheesefry connoisseur Michael Moore was not. Well, ‘t seems Rand wants his hometown back. Here’s a sample of Rand’s Moore-ish rebuffery*: questioning the assertion made on Moore’s fansite that ol’ Lumpypants “worked several jobs, including one at Buick, which he quit on his first day,” Rand writes: How does one ‘work’ a job

Richard Bennett has posted the text of an actual*

Hmm. Better not tell The Fat Guy about any of this… “Some parents in one Pennsylvania school district are being sent letters that aren’t alerting them about problems with their child’s grades or behavior, but about their weight,” WPVI in Philadelphia sitting duck in Dodgeball, is a lousy speller, and has performed miserably on his multiplication tables — likely because he’s so very doughy and fat. Lardy kids, studies show,