Celebrity Vorticize with Sergeant John!
The shallow end of the pool is great for running laps. Being much heavier than Lynne, I get better traction, and soon work up an uxoricidal vortex that threatens to capsize her. It’s at this point that Lynne has either to follow along in my wake, or to flee to the leeward end [...]
How to Lose Friends and Incite People
A Friday morning US Special Forces-led raid in the Iraqi city of Janaja resulted in the death of a man the Pentagon described as “a local security guard.”
Maliki is Janaja’s most famous son, but he’s been conspicuously silent in the aftermath of an apparent covert coalition raid Friday morning — finally acknowledged Sunday by the [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“I wonder men dare trust themselves with men.
Methinks they should invite them without knives:
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.”
—Timon Of Athens, 1.2.43-45
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He’s opposite to humanity.” —Timon Of Athens, 1.1.272
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“That there should be small love amongst these sweet knaves,
and all this courtesy! The strain of man’s bred out into baboon
and monkey.” —Timon Of Athens, 1.1.248-50
Quid Pro Quo
Politico points out another glaringly obvious “for sale” sign, showing us why all those Democrats are so eager to immunize the telecoms for spying on us:
House Democrats who flipped their votes to support retroactive immunity for telecom companies in last week’s FISA bill took thousands of dollars more from phone companies than Democrats who consistently [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He that loves to be flattered is worthy o’ th’ flatterer.”
—Timon Of Athens, 1.1.225-26
Army Of One
The Bush Administration has nominated the first female soldier for four-star general rank:
A 33-year veteran of the US military, Lieutenant General Ann Dunwoody, on Monday became the first woman to be nominated to the highest rank in the US Army, four-star general.
“This is an historic occasion for the Department of Defense and I am proud [...]
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“What a thrice-double ass
Was I, to take this drunkard for a god,
And worship this dull fool!” —Tempest, 5.1.295-97
Shakespearean Daily Diss
“He is as disproportion’d in his manners
As in his shape.” —Tempest, 5.1.290-91
