I support this: President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad voiced defiance on Tuesday as a deadline neared for Iran to halt work the West fears is a step toward building nuclear bombs, and challenged President Bush to a televised debate. This has the makings of a long, slow debate, as both speakers would have difficulty with the English …
Archives for August 2006
Taking It To The Next Level
Via a slightly-jealous reader (guess who), this has to be one of the more notable moments in spoofing history: Masquerading as Rene Oswin, an official at the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Bichlbaum followed Louisiana Gov. Kathleen Blanco and New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin to the lectern Monday morning at the Pontchartrain Center in …
Open Thread
For those who want the freedom to flame at will. How about this nugget: ‘Newsweek’ Says Armitage Was Plame Source for Both Novak and Woodward What else is up?
An Experiment
What the hell, let’s start off the week with a good flamewar. However, this will be a different kind of flamewar so don’t map STFU p33n to the F1 key just yet. For this thread only we plan to delete any comment that doesn’t advance an actual argument. Sure, flame somebody’s argument as historically misinformed, …
Friday Sunday Beer Blogging – Another Damn Stout
Yep, you weissbier fans are out of luck again. This week’s trip to Mineo’s hauled in a sixer of Dogfish Head’s insanely-good category-defying Raison D’Etre and, new for me, the Fat Dog Imperial Oatmeal Stout from Stoudt’s. Neither of those go very well with a pizza but I figured what the hell, we will have …
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Irony Is Dead
I read this several times, and unfortunately, it does not seem to be a parody: Not too long ago the blogosphere was rocking with the great debate of Intelligent Design vs Darwinism. It was an interesting debate, though I doubt much that anyone had the mind changed. Be that as it may, the whole thing …
More War News
It may take a certain tolerance for paradox, but signs suggest that the US-Iran war that will never happen has already begun: The Iranian government is training and equipping much of the Shiite insurgency in Iraq, a senior U.S. general said Wednesday, drawing one of the most direct links by the Pentagon. […] “I think …