We are back up, partially. Last night we had a massive server failure. At this point, we do not know the cause. Our efforts at this point are going into restoring the site, then we will figure out what caused it. We expect to be updating the page shortly with the...
Vaseline and Matches and al-Qaeda, Oh My! Oh Wait, Nah.
Within half an hour, we were told of a woman who went berserk on a flight and was found to be carrying matches, vaseline, a screwdriver, and not one but TWO letters mentioning al-Qaeda -- one in English and the other in Arabic. And then slowly these items disappeared...
Bush: Betrayed by Iraqi Ingrates
Today’s New York Times reveals that George W. Bush is deeply disappointed that the Iraqi people have “not shown greater support for the American mission.†One person who attended a meeting of Bush’s “war cabinet†on Monday commented on Bush’s reaction:...
Bush Out-Drivels Himself
So Bush made the supreme sacrifice, returning from his vacation in Texas to Washington to inform Americans of his latest victories in the Middle East. His comments at the State Department yesterday came close to breaking his previous personal best in both the...
Paving the Way to War with Iran
Israel’s war on Lebanon is a warm-up for the U.S. war on Iran. That is the message of Seymour Hersh’s latest superb article in the New Yorker. Hersh reveals that the Bush administration was “closely involved†in planning Israel’s attacks on Lebanon. A...
Staring At The Sun
Does anyone else find it curious that President Bush is reportedly reading a novel about killing an Arab? I wonder if it means anything...
Wars Against Life and Liberty Based on Lies
We've tried it the War Party's way for about 5 years now, and, with the newest suicide bomb plot, at long last, the ridiculous lie that our enemies are a finite number of "Islamic fascists" who hate us for our freedom has finally finished running its pathetic course....
Nothing to See Here
From Reuters: Israeli aircraft fired rockets at a convoy of hundreds of cars carrying people fleeing south Lebanon on Friday, killing at least six people and wounding 30, witnesses and rescue workers said. They said the convoy that had left the Israeli-occupied town...
‘You Can’t Make Hummus Without Mashing Some Chickpeas’
Devastating satire (especially the end, despite its horrid moral equivalence*) from Aasif Mandvi. Via Jonathan Schwarz. * "Moral equivalence" defined here.
Sore Loserman Rides Again (II)
The defeat of Senator Joe Lieberman in Connecticut's Democratic party primary was the occasion for some characteristic whining from the losing candidate -- a proclivity that earned him the sobriquet "Sore Loserman." Now he's confirming what we all knew -- he's a...
