From FOXNews: Already saddled with resolving a looming nuclear showdown with Iran, the Bush administration now faces the possibility that that country’s new leader helped take 52 Americans hostage in 1979. “Many questions” have been raised by five former U.S. hostages who have identified Iran’s President-elect Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as one of their captors more than 25 years ago, President Bush said Thursday “I have no information,” Bush said in an
June 30, 2005
June 30, 2005
Literary revisionism, 2: “If instead of a brooding existentialist, Albert Camus were a libertarian” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
“[…] At which point Sisyphus, weary of the burden imposed on him by a centralized, elitist pantheon of self-styled ‘Gods,’ changed his fate by finding a willing masochist to assume his unending task—spreading happiness on two fronts and signalling a victory for the free market over the tyranny of an artificial ‘fate’ henceforth shown to be illusory.” — from “The Myth of Sisyphus”
June 30, 2005
Creating new terrorists: Chimpy McHitlerburton’s smirky rodeo ride through history continues, #14
From DefenseLINK News: It all started as Chief Warrant Officer James Gisclair was giving an orientation flight to a pilot new to the area. He and the new pilot, Chief Warrant Officer Nathan Scott, spotted a flash flood occurring after heavy rains hit the area earlier that day. They noticed a group of people standing alongside the banks of a flooding river, pointing toward the middle as they followed its
June 30, 2005
a CITIZEN JOURNALIST continues to look into the Natalee Holloway case and to offer theories on her disappearance that could, perhaps, prove fruitful, were the Aruban government to follow-up on them—and were Greta Van Susteren to take up the mantle and really really dig into their potentialities
Uh, alien abduction, maybe…?
June 30, 2005
In which I attempt to curry favor with Canadians by carefully caressing their cultural sensibilities, 4
Baseball is for pussies. Now hockey—that’s a man‘s sport…! **** cross-posted at kate’s