It’s nice to be remembered. And really, how can you not love a man who keeps a variety of stationery. **** update: …although there comes a point when too much stationery is just kinda creepy.
September 27, 2004
Scenes from the coordinated right-wing blog assault on brave mainstream media figures who are just trying to speak Truth to Power.
September 27, 2004
Al-Qa’ida’s Pakistan kingpin killed; sadly, secret ingredient for “Farooqi’s Famous Lentil Patties” dies with him
From The Australian PAKISTAN’S security forces yesterday claimed to have delivered a “crushing blow” to al-Qa’ida by killing a leading terrorism suspect wanted over a failed bid to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf. Amjad Farooqi, gunned down during a two-hour shootout in southern Sindh province on Sunday, had been running al-Qa’ida operations in Pakistan, officials said. “I will prefer death,” Farooqi, 30, is reported to have shouted when security forces surrounded
September 26, 2004
John Kerry: “Oh, I love the atmosphere at Lambert Field—especially those droll Pigouille Heads with all their bombast!”
Confronted with these new revelations of an itinerant Iraqi nuclear threat, protein wisdom does what every good American does: he watches football and eats shaved cold cuts, and has his wife work on site maintanence and various upgrades. Back later.
September 26, 2004
Brautigan, Revisited – an American love story
Chapter 22: America’s Funniest Home Videos Chapter 1. Chapter 2. Chapter 3. Chapter 4. Chapter 5. Chapter 6. Chapter 7. Chapter 8. Chapter 9. Chapter 10. Chapter 11. Chapter 12. Chapter 13. Chapter 14. Chapter 15. Chapter 16. Chapter 17. Chapter 18. Chapter 19. Chapter 20. Chapter 21. “When you left,” Liz began, “I was upset. Robin and Roger were getting drunk and frisky, and so was I.” “Boone’s Farm
September 26, 2004
Dan Rather talks in his sleep
Rather: “…Because as they say down in Tuscaloosa, you can’t roast the pork without first burping the pig…”
September 26, 2004
My ninth brief conversation with a McIntosh Apple
me: “So.” apple: “So.” me: apple: me: apple: me: “So.” apple: me: apple: me: “So.” apple: ”What? Fine, change the damn channel. Just stop staring at me, okay? You’re giving me the creeps.”
September 26, 2004
RatherGate: Like a hooker without a short term memory, it just keeps GIVING!
Burkett. Mapes. Barnes. Van Os. And now…donk cyberflack Joshua Micah Friggin’ Marshall…? Time will tell, I suppose. …And here I was thinking Marshall’s silence during the forged document¹ feeding frenzy had to do with his running out of Red Bull and Power Bars… Developing… **** ¹ Dan Rather responds: “For the last time, they are not forgeries. They’re sophisticated sex robots sent back in time to change the future for
September 26, 2004
On the new Star Wars DVD box set
Is it just me, or did George Lucas absolutely ruin the original Star Wars by digitally inserting some ridiculous sublot about a “Death Star”…? And while we’re on the subject, who is the old dude in the wizard robes? And where is that wise green muppet character? Because him I liked.
September 25, 2004
John Kerry: “What matters is NOT what I said about being in Safwan for the 1991 Cease Fire Accords; what MATTERS is that I fought bravely in Vietnam.”
“Besides, I was near Safwan, in the sense that ‘Brazil Night’ at the Ritz Carlton, Boston, brings together fabulously wealthy people from a variety of nations, including, in theory, Iraq. Now, who wants a snow cone?” Captain’s Quarters has the details. Incidentally, I caught the replay of Kerry’s Dec 2001 interview with Bill O’Reilly the other night, but I was so mesmerized by Kerry’s insistence that, should it come down