Some Halls of Fame I can
April 2002
Exit, Stage Left
Some final notes on the D.C. “Peace-through-Ignorance, Hatred, and Oddly Place Piercings” rally — this time from some magazines located left of center: Sarah Wildman’s “Protesting Too Much,” (TNR) and Richard Just’s “Upping the Anti” (TAP). …Just a quick observation: If you’re marching for “peace” and the The American-Freakin’-Prospect thinks you’re a bit creepy, cooky, and altogether ooky…well, it’s time to get yourself fixed, if you know what I mean.
The Anti-Urkel
“Why, the day he was dropped from his mommy’s ass, he slapped his pappy’s face and said, ‘From now on, cocksucker, I’m runnin’ this place.’” …So sayeth the Dolemite, whose The Return of the Dolemite 2002 — the latest in the legendary B-Movie series — is due out soon (alas, straight to video). Man, did I ever love the 70s blaxploitation flicks… Richard Roundtree, Melvin Van Peebles, Jim Kelly, Bernie
UN-deniably UN-fit
From Reason’s Daily Brickbat: Screwing the Poor (4/22/02) UN peacekeepers and international aid workers in Africa are demanding sex from the people they are supposed to be helping, reports the BBC. If a woman wants food for her family, she may have to sleep with a staffer to get it. That’s if she’s lucky. Sometimes the workers demand favors from a family’s children before giving them food or other aid.
Ending the cycle of “the cycle of violence”
Writing for Tech Central, Ken Adelman asks “The Right Questions“: Acts of terrorism against civilians — whether against Israelis, by homicide bombers, or against Americans, by genocide regimes, such as Saddam Hussein’s — are too horrendous to wait until they’re launched. Vigorous action is needed before such dastardly crimes are perpetuated. Thus the need for a broad perspective when appraising the actions that we democracies must take against terrorist organizations
Ending the cycle of “the cycle of violence”
Writing for Tech Central, Ken Adelman asks “The Right Questions“: Acts of terrorism against civilians — whether against Israelis, by homicide bombers, or against Americans, by genocide regimes, such as Saddam Hussein’s — are too horrendous to wait until they’re launched. Vigorous action is needed before such dastardly crimes are perpetuated. Thus the need for a broad perspective when appraising the actions that we democracies must take against terrorist organizations
Hello Mudda, Hello Fateh. Here I am at, Camp Intifada…
Drawing on anecdotes from former Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross, The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes identifies and crystallizes the
Hello Mudda, Hello Fateh. Here I am at, Camp Intifada…
Drawing on anecdotes from former Mideast negotiator Dennis Ross, The Weekly Standard’s Fred Barnes identifies and crystallizes the
“Skelter”? I hardly know her…
“Charles Manson, one of America’s most notorious mass murderers, was
