“Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat tried to enlist the backing of Pope John Paul II in a Christmas showdown with Israel, as he vowed to defy an Israeli ban on him attending midnight mass in Bethlehem,” this story reports. How should the civilized world react to Arafat’s latest posturings? Should good and kind people everywhere feel sorry for him? Or believe a sudden revelation has compelled him to convert to Christianity
December 24, 2001
Rubbing Salt-er in her Wounds
Tremendously exercised blogger response today to Stephanie Salter’s San Francisco Chronicle essay, “W.W.J.D.?” — a first-person “letter” to George Bush written from the perspective of, well…Jesus Christ. Or, as Brian Linse more forcefully puts it (in an email he dashed off to Ms. Salter), “Oh my god, I still can’t believe it. You wrote in the voice of Jesus H. God Almighty Christ! Shit, I’m laughing so hard I can’t
December 24, 2001
“But I Don’t Like Spam!”
This story in The New York Times reports that the quantity of spam e-mail has spiked in the last three months. Critics say the deluge of junk e- mail threatens to undermine the utility of the Internet at precisely the time when anthrax fears and cost- cutting efforts have prompted more businesses to use it as a substitute for postal mail. (My guess? The Arab street’s behind this. What else
December 24, 2001
“But I Don’t Like Spam!”
This story in The New York Times reports that the quantity of spam e-mail has spiked in the last three months. Critics say the deluge of junk e- mail threatens to undermine the utility of the Internet at precisely the time when anthrax fears and cost- cutting efforts have prompted more businesses to use it as a substitute for postal mail. (My guess? The Arab street’s behind this. What else
December 24, 2001
Less Government, More Reason
James Morrow’s latest Reason column, “Goo-Goo Dolls: The media
December 24, 2001
What kinda name is “‘Folkenflik,’ anyhow…?
Geraldo: “This cannot stand. He has impugned my honor.
December 24, 2001
What kinda name is “‘Folkenflik,’ anyhow…?
Geraldo: “This cannot stand. He has impugned my honor.
December 24, 2001
Well Thank You So Much! Now Get Outta My Way…
Moira Breens applauds American arrogance: I went round and round with a friend in early October on the subject of American “arrogance”. His assumption was that they hate us because we are arrogant, and we are arrogant because we do such things as lob missiles at whomever and wherever we please. I argued that the paltry missile-lobbing was wrong not because it was arrogant but because it was ineffectual –