At Least They Haven’t Solved Health Care, Too
The South African parliament legalized gay marriage this week:
The bill, unprecedented on a continent where homosexuality is taboo, was decried by gay activists for not going far enough and by opponents who warned it “was provoking God’s anger.”
Veterans of the governing African National Congress praised the Civil Union Bill for extending basic freedoms to everyone [...]
Minitruth
A leaked internal FOX memo from November ninth gives the marching orders from the network’s VP of news:
And let’s be on the lookout for any statements from the Iraqi insurgents, who must be thrilled at the prospect of a Dem-controlled congress.
We have always been at war with Oceania. The smell gets in through the [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He is the bluntest wooer in Christendom.” –Henry VI, Part 3, 3.2.83
An Apology
Vietnam veteran James Larocca reminds us that war signifies failure rather than strength, and that “victory” lies only in ending it as quickly as possible:
Before shipping out to river patrol in the Mekong Delta in early 1967, I managed to get home to New York for a few days. As my parents were driving me [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Be better employed, and be nought awhile.” –As You Like It, 1.1.34-35
America’s Home-grown Terrorists
Alternet puts the tale of a would-be suicide bomber into perspective:
On Sept. 11, 2006, the fifth anniversary of the terror attacks that devastated our nation, a man crashed his car into a building in Davenport, Iowa, hoping to blow it up and kill himself in the fire….
Had the criminal, David McMenemy, been Arab or Muslim, [...]
Gratuitous Video Feed
From their 2003 induction into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame, the Indigo Girls perform a gorgeous “Closer To Fine” in Macon. Sweet.
Gratuitous Video Feed
Violinist Bobby Yang plays Eddie Van Halen’s “Eruption.” Rather well, too. Heh-heh. Heh-heh.
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s
smiles.” –Macbeth, 2.3.139-40
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“You show’d your teeth like apes, and fawn’d like hounds,
and bow’d like bondmen.” –Julius Caesar, 5.1.41-42
