Uh, excuse me, Mister, but your pet ape just took a dump on my Tabriz rug. Which, you’ll agree, is pretty friggin’ un-cool.
June 25, 2004
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance, abridged, 2
I’m pretty sure that doesn’t go there. But hey, whatever, I’m flexible.
June 25, 2004
Reuters – “Evil Bush Crusaders and Their Heavily Armed Infidel Proxies Launch Sneak Attack on Bedoui
**** story.
June 25, 2004
Will the monkey dance today?
The monkey is tired and strung out on barbituates. But he hasn’t put away his tap shoes, if that’s what you’re asking.
June 25, 2004
Internal Combustion
From “Tortured Arguments: How to interpret those Bush interrogation documents,” WSJ: The good, if under-reported, news is that the pile of documents released by the Bush Administration this week effectively rebuts the charges of “torture” that have been flying around. While White House and Justice Department lawyers did explore the legal limits of permissible interrogation techniques–something it would have been irresponsible not to do after 9/11 — it turns out
June 25, 2004
Context
Q: How many New York Times news editors does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: That’s not a lightbulb, it’s a 1964 Corvair convertible with racing seats. And what precisely do you mean by “screw in”?
June 25, 2004
Par for the course, I guess
I missed this epilogue earlier, so maybe you did, too: “Iraqi Militants [Islamic terrorists with no connection to Iraq who are currently working in Iraq – ed.] Plant Bomb in Kim Sun-il
June 25, 2004
New York Times: “Okay, so there is a document proving ties between Iraq and al-Qaeda,
…but it doesn’t exactly prove prove that Bin Laden and Saddam ordered a single milkshake and two spoons, if you catch our drift.” From today’s Times: The document, which asserts that Mr. bin Laden “was approached by [the Iraqi] side,” states that Mr. bin Laden previously “had some reservations about being labeled an Iraqi operative,” but was now willing to meet in Sudan, and that “presidential approval” was granted to