Ended up getting all three of the DVDs I spoke of earlier, which means I have to clear some space. DVDs for sale below.
January 3, 2006
Rethinking the Holocaust, Middle East Style
A discussion about the Holocaust, which aired December 27 on the Iranian News Channel (IRINN), revealed what we’ve all secretly known all along: the wholesale slaughter of Jews in concentration camps in WWII is, in fact, a “myth,” and the crematoria and gas chambers used by the Nazis were really just public health tools—the crematoria “used to burn the bodies of those who died of typhus or contagious diseases” and
January 3, 2006
“The Schrödinger’s cat downloads some porn post” (from the protein wisdom conceptual series)
Schrödinger: “Don’t think I don’t know what you’re doing in there, cat. I mean, Kleenex boxes don’t just suddenly disappear, you know.”*
January 3, 2006
Advice
I’m heading out to Best Buy once my son wakes from his nap and am thinking of picking up the following flicks, none of which I’ve yet seen. Advice? Broken Flowers—Bill Murray in a Jim Jarmusch film. Can I go wrong? Wedding Crashers—Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson The Exorcism of Emily Rose—recommended by several people, but having been burned by Paul Schrader’s Dominion, I’m a little wary…
January 3, 2006
Autobiography of an ex-Colored Man (UPDATED)
Los Angeles homeless activist Ted Hayes, in Monday’s WSJ, American blacks who are affiliated with the Republican Party are vigorously vilified by Democrats, especially black Democrats. Uncle Tom, sell-out, Oreo–the list of slurs is long. But it is not only insults. I am the founder and director of a unique, progressive homeless facility in downtown Los Angeles, known as the Dome Village. Yet the 35 men, women and children and
January 3, 2006
“Iran closes women’s publication”
From Reuters, by way of Dhimmi Watch and Tom Pechinski: The Iranian Government has ordered the closure of a daily newspaper and banned a new women’s bi-weekly from publication in the first media crackdown since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in August. “The Supervisory Board on the Press agreed to the temporary closure of Asia newspaper and Nour-e Banovan and ordered their cases sent to court,” said the Culture Ministry
January 2, 2006
Western Winds
Mark Steyn on Islam and the West. From “It’s the demography, stupid,” The New Criterion [reprinted in OJ]: […] The challenge for those who reckon western civilization is on balance better than the alternatives is to figure out a way to save at least some parts of the west. One obstacle to doing that is the fact that, in the typical election campaign in your advanced industrial democracy, the political
January 2, 2006
A relatively short list – in no particular order – of underappreciated (or largely forgotten) movies you might try for 2006
Your mileage may vary.
January 2, 2006
Plans (UPDATED)
I’m going to take it easy today—play with the kid, watch a few Bowl games—but in the meantime, allow me to point you to Glenn Greenwald (and co.’s) latest, which charges me with being a mindless Bushbot (“the wingnut’s wingnut” who “hates the first amendment,” according to his commenters) because I simply will not see the light and just admit, as Chuck Hagel, William Safire, et al, have already admitted—that
January 2, 2006
red pills found behind the sofa cushions, prolepsis 11
Using state of the art nanotechnology, it takes a team of six agency surgeons —none of whom officially even exist, I’ve since learned—roughly fourteen hours to resuscitate and repair a certain sea monkey “asset,” whose drunken new year’s eve skinny dipping adventure ended when an escort named Laci, freshening up a batch of Cuervo 1800 frozen margaritas, unwittingly hit the ‘puree’ switch. I’ll miss Laci, for what it’s worth—not least