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April 8, 2002

Mr. Malaprop

Here’s some more choice stuff from that stupid guy who thinks it’s “War Profiteering” when a bunch of strangers show up at your site every day to hear your thoughts on world events: Yesterday Glenn Reynolds graced yesterdays article with the title, ‘Dumbest Blog Article Yet’. Apparently, I can’t write, and nobody is listening. Of course, there’s no point me arguing this fact, it’s obviously true. So let’s disseminate Reynolds

Ugh.  I think I stepped in something academic…

Writing in The New York Times, Shibley Telhami, a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and co-editor of Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, examines the week-long Israeli military incursion into the West Bank and — not surprisingly — comes to BUT™ we nevertheless must find a way to deal with those “realities that have made suicide bombings acceptable…” Except, of course, if that

Ugh.  I think I stepped in something academic…

Writing in The New York Times, Shibley Telhami, a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland and co-editor of Identity and Foreign Policy in the Middle East, examines the week-long Israeli military incursion into the West Bank and — not surprisingly — comes to BUT™ we nevertheless must find a way to deal with those “realities that have made suicide bombings acceptable…” Except, of course, if that

So, this is how that whole ‘tolerance’ thing works.  Neato.

So, this is how that whole ‘tolerance’ thing works.  Neato.

Caribou-hoo

“One week after a U.S. Geological Survey study warned that caribou ‘may be particularly sensitive’ to oil exploration in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, the agency has completed a quick follow-up report suggesting that the most likely drilling scenarios under consideration should have no impact on caribou,” The Washington Post [reluctantly? nah!]

Let the Games Begin

“Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein announced Monday that Baghdad had decided to halt its oil exports immediately for one month in protest at Israel’s incursion of Palestinian areas on the West Bank,” Reuters reports. “Saddam said in a speech broadcast over Iraqi media: ‘The Iraqi leadership declared the complete stoppage of oil exports starting from this afternoon April 8 for a period of 30 days when we will further decide policy

Norwegian Would

Bjorn Staerk, on how Norwegian popular opinion favors the Palestinian position in the latest Mideast conflagration: All the major parties and news media appear to agree that Israel is the driving force behind the violence, and holds the power to stop it. (In a recent poll, 44% sympathized most with the Palestinians, 9% with Israel, and 38% with neither. The 9% apparently consisted of elderly Christians.) Terrorism may or may

Shock the Monkey

I’m shocked, Sarge! Shocked, I say! protein wisdom is what one man aspires to. No man can hope to attain protein wisdom alone… protein wisdom. It’s a way of being. [Oh. And Native Deen (“we put the Hizzya in Hizzbollah!”) rawwwwks…!]