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 4, 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
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)