Please tune in today to “Hoist the Black Flag” on Rightalk. The show begins at 4:05 pm EST, 1:05 pacific. Today’s guest is…well, nobody, actually. As in, we have no frickin’ guests lined up—though we’re hoping a few special guests phone in. If not, we’re pretty much screwed. Oh. And sadly, I STILL don’t have the broadcast equipment, so I’ll be doing the show from a telephone again. Which explains
April 2006
April 4, 2006
I smell a Yale scholarship…!
From Charles Oliver, “Brickbats,” Reason (May 2006 print edition): When Scottish developer Marcus Salter started to move a big rock in the middle of his development, neighbors in St. Fillians complained he would disturb the fairies that lived underneith it. At first he thought they were joking. Then the local community council started talking about complaining to the authorities, and he decided to have the project redesigned to leave the
April 4, 2006
“Most wanted terrorist ‘kicked out as leader’ for bloody tactics”?
From the Times Online (UK): ABU MUSAB AL-ZARQAWI, the most feared commander in the Iraqi insurgency, may have been forced to surrender his leadership by rival groups, angered by his bloody tactics and the interference of foreign fighters in the Iraqi conflict. According to Huthayfah Azzam, the son of Abdullah Azzam, al-Zarqawi’s former mentor, the notorious commander of al-Qaeda in Iraq was stripped of his political duties at a meeting
April 4, 2006
Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) tells a joke (or, so long as Steve Gilliard is throwing around the “racist” claims, I might as well keep right on living the Rethuglican Dream of HATING THE BROWN MAN!)
Q: “How many WHITE people does it take to change a lightbulb?” A: “None. Because they make the BLACK MAN do all their manual labor for them, while they hold all the WHITE COLLAR jobs! And answer me this: why are all the GOOD jobs called ‘WHITE’ collar jobs, anyway? “Stumped you, didn’t I? You RACIST CRACKERS!”*
April 4, 2006
Thanks…!
To Jon Lane, for the Mister Roberts DVD! I’m a huge fan of both William Powell (of Thin Man fame) and James Cagney—and Henry Fonda and Jack Lemon are no slouches, either. Can’t wait to watch this one. Which reminds me: I’ve been watching a lot of Harold Lloyd stuff recently—including a 1928 film (Speedy) that featured Babe Ruth as a guest star (playing himself). For those of you unfamiliar
April 3, 2006
in which protein wisdom taunts the rest of the National League West
Fear the Rockies, bitches! Fear them like you would a federal prosecutor set to grill you about the unnaturally rapid growth of your head, neck, buttocks, and arms! And yeah, I’m looking at you, Barry. **** update: Rockies win 3-2 in 11 innings. At Coors. The bullpen? 4 innings, 1 unearned run. FEAR THEM! FOR THEY SHALL SHOCK THE WORLD!
April 3, 2006
Your Monday riddle
Q: Why did Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) cross the road? A: Clearly you have your story all wrong, Mr. Racist Interlocutor. As the facts will show, it was the ROAD who crossed CYNTHIA. Because it hates Blacks. And women. And liberal Democrats. And probably puppies, too.* Though it loves Jews. Stupid Jew-loving racist road. How we loathe you. **** (h/t George Gaskell)
April 3, 2006
Heeeeeeeeeeere’s Kossy!
The Late Night TV Page lists this Thursday’s guest on “The Colbert Report” as Markos Moulitsas Zuniga. Which, cool for Daily Kos, I guess, but super bad for the universe. After all, so many levels of irony and ideological blindness colliding at once are sure to rip a hole in the space-time continuum big enough to suck us all back to 1969, where we’d be forced to listen to Joan
April 3, 2006
“Court refuses to hear Padilla appeal”
From SCOTUSblog’s Lyle Denniston: The Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear the appeal of Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen held in a military jail for more than three years as an “enemy combatant.” The Court, however, declined to dismiss the case as moot, as the Bush Administration had urged. Only three Justices voted to hear the case, according to the order and accompanying opinions. The case was Padilla v.
Shannon Elizabeth discusses the importance of keeping classified information classified, particularly in a time of war, and excoriates the NYT for leaking the NSA “domestic spy” story: a performative
Elizabeth: “Let me put it this way: sometimes its best to keep your most effective assets hidden from enemy eyes. And their ears, too—if your enemies happen to be creepy little fetishists like David Spade. “Which, there’s a night I’d rather not revisit, if it’s all the same to you…”* **** (h/t Eric Akawie)