From the Jerusalem Post: “It would be ‘catastrophic’ for the Middle East if Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry was elected to the White House, a former Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington said in comments published Wednesday.” Sheik Saud Al Nasser Al Sabah, who was Kuwait’s ambassador to the United States when Republican President George Bush formed a US-led coalition to liberate Kuwait from Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi army in the 1991 Gulf
July 8, 2004
Foreign dignitary endorses Kerry, if by “endorses” one means something along the lines of “is terrif
July 8, 2004
Scenes from my driveway, continued x 26
Deadbeat neighbor: “You know what I like a lot…? Dirt.” Me: “Beg your pardon?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Yeah, for whatever reason I really like it. Don’t know if it’s the texture or the smell or what, but I do. Especially when I’m barefoot.” Me: “Did you say you liked dirt?” Deadbeat neighbor: “Dirt, yeah. Like earth. Which I realize is not everybody’s bag…” Me: “Yeah, I’m extraordinarily ambivalent about dirt myself.”
July 8, 2004
Update 5
Ted Rall is still an idiot. a sniveling, hate-drenched poseur who’s wannabe-Hariet Tubman spiel is belied by the fact that the closest he’s ever come to helping a minority is when he grudgingly tipped his Thai delivery boy that one time. Five-percent, too, the cheap hack.* updated for precision
July 8, 2004
Words that just sound funny, #196: “prismatoid”
eg. “Is that your prismatoid?” “Yes, that prismatoid belongs to me.”* **** *see also: “Uh, no. What on earth could I possibly want with a prismatoid?”
July 8, 2004
Words that just sound funny, #196: “prismatoid”
eg. “Is that your prismatoid?” “Yes, that prismatoid belongs to me.”* **** *see also: “Uh, no. What on earth could I possibly want with a prismatoid?”
July 7, 2004
protein wisdomstradamus
John Kerry, speaking in Cleveland today: “We’ve got better vision, better ideas, real plans, we’ve got a better sense of what’s happening to America and we’ve got better hair” [my emphasis]. protein wisdom responds: “Why, of course you do.”*
July 7, 2004
Sixth in a series for real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this, Teresa Heinz Kerry will have purchased a gross of ermine panty liners and told a low-level campaign staffer to “put some hip into it, boy. I’ve got a nail appointment in 20 minutes.”
July 7, 2004
Daily Kos: “Right-wing uber pundit Reynolds involved in WMD Smuggling?”*
One more thing: I have no idea what to make of this, but it seems worth linking just the same. **** h/t Glenn *Not that Daily Kos. A different one. In my head.