Proving once again that protein wisdom is dedicated to giving air to all creative mediums (and all ideological positions), we refer you to “Get Your War On,” a kind of hyper-verbal and astonishingly profane serialized clip-art comic, spawn of the war divide’s anarcho-left. Not for the modishly prudish. Think Tom Tomorrow with sac and verve. Think Ted Rall stuffed naked into a cage filled with randy chimps (this last has
February 20, 2002
Nothin’ like a good war to get the blood flowin’, eh? (And the pay ain’t bad, either…)
From U.S. News & World Report’s, “Washingon Whispers” (February 28, print edition): After several embarrassing years of missed recruitment quotas, Navy bosses say they’re flooded with new sailors. The war has helped, says Vice Adm. Norb Ryan, the Navy’s personnel chief. But, he says, ‘the economy has helped more.’ Also, more sailors are staying in, attracted by pay hikes and the satisfaction of winning the antiterror war.
February 20, 2002
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The excellent Victor Davis Hanson, writing in The National Review: The tired voices of past criticism are now using the present pause in the war to postulate another American predicament. Oddly, learning nothing from the immediate past, they are beginning now to advance
February 19, 2002
“C-I-L-L my land-lord…!”
Chris Caldwell of The Weekly Standard writes on the passing of
February 19, 2002
Headlights on the Crossroad Dimmed
“Pop goddess Britney Spears bared her boobs in her new movie Crossroads — but the shots ended up on the cutting-room floor, according to reports. “Co-stars Taryn Manning and Zoe Saldena admit the hot babe’s breast-flash in the final scenes of the movie were axed by top executives,” Matt Drudge reports. Meanwhile, somewhere in L.A.,
February 19, 2002
Talk to Mr. Ed
“A speedskater from Belarus has left the Winter Olympics after a drug test found a
February 19, 2002
And Falwell’s an embarrassment, too…
Further evidence that conservatives (other than Bill Safire, I mean) are willing to criticize their own: Writing in The National Review, Dave Kopel says John
February 19, 2002
Sacs, Pennsylvania Avenue
In today’s “Impromptus” column, The National Review’s Jay Nordlinger advises Dubya on how to proceed with Shays-Meehan: I have one word for President Bush: Veto. Strike down that campaign-finance law, which is an intolerable restriction on our speech. Don
February 19, 2002
As in, “the Tower of….”
“Iraqi newspapers said on Monday the United States was launching a psychological war on Iraq in preparation for military strikes on the country,” Reuters reports. Babel, the newspaper of President Saddam Hussein’s eldest son Uday, said that as part of the ‘psychological war against our country’ the United States ‘concentrates on reiterating its aggressive intentions on Iraq to prepare peoples minds to accept this.’ I know, I know… Who cares