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June 2002

Jerusalem:  6-18-02

Above: three photos taken of today’s bus bombing in Jerusalem. You can watch the entire slideshow here.

“Looking good, Billy Ray…” “Feeling good, Louis…”

Here’s why I find Jay Nordlinger so compelling as a columnist. On the U.S. Open Golf tournament, from his Monday NRO “Impromptus” column: I thought the crowd stank. Absolutely stank. The NBC commentators spent the whole weekend kissing its rear-end — saying how great it all was for the game of golf — but I still think it stank: all that rowdyism, all that rudeness, all the un-golf-like-ness. The commentators

“Looking good, Billy Ray…” “Feeling good, Louis…”

Here’s why I find Jay Nordlinger so compelling as a columnist. On the U.S. Open Golf tournament, from his Monday NRO “Impromptus” column: I thought the crowd stank. Absolutely stank. The NBC commentators spent the whole weekend kissing its rear-end — saying how great it all was for the game of golf — but I still think it stank: all that rowdyism, all that rudeness, all the un-golf-like-ness. The commentators

Sure, Dubya.  Threaten ‘em with the specter of their own state.  That’ll teach ‘em.

…One woman screamed at volunteers collecting remains, “Where is my sister? Where is my sister?” “A Palestinian man detonated nail-studded explosives on a Jerusalem bus crowded with high school students and office workers Tuesday, killing himself and 19 passengers in the city’s deadliest suicide attack in six years. Forty people were wounded,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The blast tore through the bus just before 8 a.m., sending bodies flying

Sure, Dubya.  Threaten ‘em with the specter of their own state.  That’ll teach ‘em.

…One woman screamed at volunteers collecting remains, “Where is my sister? Where is my sister?” “A Palestinian man detonated nail-studded explosives on a Jerusalem bus crowded with high school students and office workers Tuesday, killing himself and 19 passengers in the city’s deadliest suicide attack in six years. Forty people were wounded,” The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. The blast tore through the bus just before 8 a.m., sending bodies flying

Boob Tubin’

More teevee stuff over on the Weisblogg. Marc even found space for an offhanded Jeff Conaway mention — in the course of reviewing the CBS drama, “Hack.” If you don’t know who Conaway is, forget about it. If you do, you’ve already smiled a knowing smile and moved on with your life. Which is exactly as it should be. Oh. And Marc has gathered up all his pilot reviews and

Boob Tubin’

More teevee stuff over on the Weisblogg. Marc even found space for an offhanded Jeff Conaway mention — in the course of reviewing the CBS drama, “Hack.” If you don’t know who Conaway is, forget about it. If you do, you’ve already smiled a knowing smile and moved on with your life. Which is exactly as it should be. Oh. And Marc has gathered up all his pilot reviews and

I prefer Tom Jones, frankly.

The government is creating a police state to threaten future generations of non-white people. And we should be rubbing our chins and considering how best to surrender to terrorism, because the war we were told would take years to prosecute hasn’t ended in time for the new season of “Sex in the City.” Let’s see, what else… Oh, if you supported the Afghanistan invasion after Al Qaeda operatives flew civilian

Adult Diapers, aisle 7

Talk about

Moral Equivalence, The White House Edition…?

The Christian Science Monitor’s Howard LaFranchi is reporting that after weeks of consultations, President Bush is preparing to make a major speech outlining his plan for “Palestine”: Although the president warned as recently as last Thursday against speculating on what he might decide, hints from US officials and leaders who have spoken with Bush suggest his plan will include concrete steps for creation of a Palestinian state. The emphasis would