Archive for July, 2006
Iran’s Okay-Fine with Us, Says France.
Is there a terror-sponsoring regime anywhere that France won’t lovingly smooch? I only ask because of
The Economy’s Good, Unless You’re the Lazy Semi-Rich?
Am I supposed to feel sorry for this man or what? ROCK FALLS, Ill. — Alan Beggerow has stopped looking for work. Laid off as a steelworker at 48, he taught math for a while at a community college. But when that ended, he could not find a job that, in his view, was neither [...]
Good News, Bad News, and a History Lesson.
There’s good news: MOGADISHU, Somalia Jul 30, 2006 (AP)— The first commercial flight in a decade departed Mogadishu’s newly reopened international airport Sunday, demonstrating how Islamic militants have pacified the once-anarchic capital and much of southern Somalia. And bad news: Now, Islamic militiamen are guarding the airport for commercial passengers, said Sheik Muqtar Robow, deputy [...]
Remembering Golda Meir
Yesterday, pretty much all I saw in the news was the story about the dead in Qana, Lebanon. And mostly, what came to mind when I saw the images and heard the stories was this quote from the former leader of Israel, Golda Meir: When peace comes, we will perhaps in time be able to [...]
One Dead, Four Wounded in Seattle. Blame the Jews.
So, is this guy one of the moderate Muslims who just got a little miffed, a lone nut, a terrorist, or merely a common criminal? Six people were shot - one fatally - this afternoon at the Jewish Federation of Greater Seattle by a man who told a witness he was upset about “what was [...]
Frankenstein!
This is, bar none, the best rock instrumental song ever written. There can be no question about this, no dispute. And since it’s a nine-minute live performance, you get some bonus stuff right in the middle, like a segue into some Mission Impossible goodness, a fantastic guitar solo, and Edgar on key-tar, standup keyboard, and [...]
A Six-Hundred Pound Twinkie of Snark
*sigh* NEW YORK (Reuters) — Former political blogger Ana Marie Cox, better known as Wonkette, will rejoin the so-called mainstream media as the new Washington editor for Time magazine’s Time.com Web site later this month. Cox, 33, will coordinate Time.com’s political coverage and write features and essays for print and Web versions of the magazine [...]
That’s What You Said