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June 2005
June 20, 2005
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST looks into the case of missing Alabama student Natalee Holloway
Fact: The Savanna Lodge, located along Natural Bridge Road (Matividiri 57), boasts Aruba’s largest ostrich farm and serves ostrich dishes in a savanna-style cookout setting, complete with torches and campfire, overlooking the island’s rugged North Coast. Fact: Ostriches belong to the ratites and are the only members of their family, Struthionidae. They live in nomadic groups of 5–50 animals that often travel together with other grazing animals; toothless, they swallow
June 20, 2005
The seventh set of 20 films that if you haven’t seen you should see immediately or risk having protein wisdom sneer at you like certain embarrassingly snobby blue state gourmands sneer at salt water taffy and chili-cheese fries
1980s, group 7 Personal Best (1982) The Plague Dogs (1982) Poltergeist (1982) Porky’s (1982) Q: THe Winged Serpent (1982) Shoot The Moon (1982) Sophie’s Choice (1982)
June 19, 2005
A Happy Father’s Day post for all the fathers, by Satchel (updated)
Enjoy the paper plate with the macaroni glued to it, Pops! It was a labor of love.
June 19, 2005
a half-hearted attempt to reaffirm my conservative bona fides, 3
America, love it or leave it. You hippie freak.
June 18, 2005
Scenes from my driveway, continued x 57
Deadbeat neighbor: “Is Thai food really spicy?” Me: “Depends. Can be. Why?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Because I’m thinking about trying Thai food for lunch, but I’m not sure my stomach can handle it. Went a little too hard on the tequila last night…” Me: “Uh huh. Is that why you’re wearing the nipple clamps?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Well, that was gonna be my second question: any idea how to get these goddamn
June 18, 2005
“It’s not ‘anti-semitic,’ Howard. Don’t confuse a hatred for the country with a hatred of the people. Besides, we clearly love the troops and their Stalinesque treatment of blameless Islamic freedom fighters held illegally in Guantanamo Bay by our arrogant, imperialist government (which, of course, we also love), so what’s to apologize for”?
From the Washington Post: A handful of people at Democratic National Headquarters distributed material critical of Israel during a public forum questioning the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, drawing an angry response and charges of anti-Semitism from party chairman Howard Dean on Friday. “We disavow the anti-Semitic literature, and the Democratic National Committee stands in absolute disagreement with and condemns the allegations,” Dean said in a statement posted on the DNC
June 18, 2005
If we’re not mistaken, it’s Friday. Which means that scaled rodent of yours should be dancing—
—Please, cut the little fella some slack, willya? He’s a Jew, and this whole Conyers thing has him really shaken. In fact, I caught him in the bathroom with a jar of rubber cement earlier this afternoon trying to reattach his foreskin. Which, to be honest, I had no idea he’d even saved the damn thing— but you gotta admit, it’s starting to look like a wise play…
June 17, 2005
Just in case you haven’t already seen it…
From the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank In the Capitol basement yesterday, long-suffering House Democrats took a trip to the land of make-believe. They pretended a small conference room was the Judiciary Committee hearing room, draping white linens over folding tables to make them look like witness tables and bringing in cardboard name tags and extra flags to make the whole thing look official. Rep. John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) banged a