Tuesday, May 02, 2006
THE RULES
Juniors play for chickens. Senior competitors play for goats.
Monday, May 01, 2006
THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD
Harry Hutton: “These are the highlights of my stay in the Chicago Airport Travelodge. It’s a beautiful story, and yet it’s true.”
TRAVEL ADVICE REQUIRED
Regular reader FC emails:
My son is a sergeant in the US Army, and is currently serving his second tour of duty in Iraq. He’s due to be discharged this November.
The reason I’m writing is that he wants to travel a bit before he returns to the States, and one place he’d like to visit is Australia. Is there any place in particular that you could recommend a young veteran visit?
Sydney, for a start, so I can buy the man a drink. He isn’t spending a cent here. Readers, please add other Australian visit recommendations in comments.
THE BOSTON CRUMBLER
Without actually realising it, Susan Sarandon understands why the US re-elected George W. Bush:
“There was no reason for Hillary Clinton, for instance, to vote (for the war), for John Kerry to vote, they were protecting their reputations. They crumbled under the pressure and it was a very lonely, very scary time to ask a question. That’s a horrible condition to exist in a democracy.”
Not a good time to elect someone unable to resist the mere domestic pressure exerted by Frowny McWalkoff. How might crumbly Kerry have coped with, say, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad?
UPDATE. An email arrives from Senator Bob Kerrey:
Dear Friend,
When we were in the Senate together, John Kerry and I shared a lot more than a last name.
Senator, you didn’t, and you don’t.
CHAVEZ THE CHOPPER
William W. Lawrence wonders why leftists won’t condemn terrible environmental destruction:
You never raised your voices or even an eyebrow when our communist neighbors, under President Hugo Chávez, went drilling and tromping all over the Venezuelan Rain Forest.
Venezuela holds about 151,000 square miles, some 3 percent of the world’s total of frontier forest. The tropical rainforests found in this area are some of the richest on earth, containing an estimated 15,000 types of plant species.
Venezuela has, so far, lost 41 percent of its original rainforest, and 37 percent is now threatened.
Right, it’s Bush’s fault.
You are not whining or shrieking about Fidel Castro proclaiming that his communist polluters will soon be drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf within 35 miles of the Florida coast. Americans are not allowed to do that.
Three bucks a gallon! Oh yeah, it’s Bush’s fault.
No idea if those numbers are accurate. Not that accuracy is ever a concern to environmentalistas.
GRINDER VIOLENCE DENOUNCED
Debate rages at Indymedia:
There are other safer, more peaceful ways to cut chains without using the excessive violence of an angle grinder.
UN sanctions, maybe?
(Via Rob at SemiSkimmed, who observes that “the World Meat Congress is just one of many events run by the International Meat Secretariat.”)
FISK ANALYSIS CONTINUES
Another scholarly attempt at decoding Robert Fisk; it’s becoming quite an industry. Agam’s view:
That’s the weirdest thing about the Fisk interview. The questioner is completely normal, and Robert speaks like something Iowahawk would write.