July, 2006
Oh, there goes the other shoe
I’ve been a little surprised this week by the credulous reaction of the foreign press to Torture President’s alleged “policy reversal” on abiding by the Geneva Conventions. Headline after headline from around the world has announced that the Bush White House, in a “stunning U-turn,” will now extend Geneva protection to all the prisoners at [...]
Here’s the guy who was naked yesterday
Nijinsky in Le Spectre de la Rose. Look at those eyes! God almighty, what he must have been like onstage.
Warning: Full Frontal Nudity
I’ve just checked the world news this morning and, interestingly enough, the world is actually coming to an end! It’s the kind of thing people talk about but no one ever really expects to happen. But I think today is the day. Planes are dropping out of the sky, Iraq is approaching meltdown, Israel looks [...]
Guide to the Religious Right
Over at Alternet, Rob Boston has put together a list of The Top 10 Power Brokers of the Religious Right. It’s a very useful compendium, though if anything Boston has understated just how whacked these people really are. Topping the list is meteorologist and former diamond miner Pat Robertson, who has made a name for [...]
I guess we’re gonna have these every two weeks or so until the election
Is the White House actually paying the press corps? Google News has 863 stories now on the terrorist plot (heroically thwarted by the FBI!) to blow up the Holland Tunnel and flood downtown New York. Aside from the fact that blowing up the Holland Tunnel would just flood the Holland Tunnel, not the streets of [...]
Art in the Afternoon
This is fun: upload an image of yourself and have it transformed — different age, different race, different sex, or into the style of Modigliani, Botticelli, etc. The image at left is a photo of me rendered in the style of Alphonse Mucha. (No, I’m not worried about blowing my cover here; none of these [...]
New York head-to-head with Georgia for maximum suckitude
Little exercise in post-title writing, there. Seriously, this is disheartening. Georgia doesn’t surprise me; there are exactly seven enlightened people in that state and I know them all personally. The rest have grits for brains and drink tobacco juice as an apértif. But New York! The Court has ruled that gay people don’t have the [...]
Fourth of July
I spent the Fourth of July holiday gamboling with my folks on their vast estate in the Virginia woods. It’s about 700 degrees here in Virginia, but since the humidity is only 200% it’s still pleasant outside. Not. We roasted up some American flags and toasted a few marshmallow effigies of Shrub, then amused ourselves [...]
Kenny Boy Dead
Breaking news. I hope they go all out for the funeral and Shrub gives a stirring eulogy for his close buddy and bagman. Oh, wait, is Shrub still pretending he never met the guy? I lose track. This Globe and Mail article dryly recalls Kenny Boy’s prayer when he was convicted in May: Surrounded by [...]
The Battle of the Somme
Ninety years ago today — July 1, 1916 — was the first day of the Battle of the Somme. It was the bloodiest day in the history of the British army: some 20,000 men died in that one day. Not 20,000 casualties; 20,000 deaths. In one day. The battle raged on for almost five months. [...]
