If anyone has ANY idea what to do to fix my permalinks, please email me. I have not messed with the code and they just refuse to work.
John Cole started Balloon Juice early in 2002. Those who have followed along know that this has been quite the journey.
This is just beautiful. Will
This is just beautiful. Will Warren beats Alex Beam with a rhyme. I have not laughed so hard since the Heather Mallick poem.
He’s the ’62 Mets of the features page,
The de Havilland Comet of the modern age.
As solid as the Tacoma Narrows Bridge,
As sure as the Exxon Valdez, or Tom Ridge.
He’s the fourth Stooge, Charlie Brown without the nice,
The Titanic steaming madly toward the ice,
The Ottoman Empire of the copy desk,
With head so marbleized it’s quite statuesque.
Of prose pros in Beantown, he’s the shoddiest,
Of all Hub nimrods, he’s the nimroddiest.
He’s the ornament of the All-Schlump team:
Hail King Alex, news crap-out supreme!
Is this memo really necessary?
Is this memo really necessary?
The State Department, citing a “deteriorating security situation,” warned Americans on Tuesday to defer travel to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza and said dependents of American diplomats in Jerusalem were being encouraged to go home.
“The potential for further terrorist acts remains high,” the travel warning said. “The situation in Jerusalem, the West Bank and Gaza remains extremely volatile with continuing terrorist attacks, confrontations and clashes.”
A bitchy and somewhat deranged
A bitchy and somewhat deranged monkey finds a keyboard, and this is the result.
Lileks responds to the moron.
Conspicuous flaming idiocy is often treated by bloggers like a shank of meat thrown into Blofeld’s pira
Go read P.J. right now.
Go read P.J. right now. I insist. Maybe Welch and Lileks will hire P.J., too.
P.J. article via the Bellicose Woman.
Rand Simberg comes up with
Rand Simberg comes up with some working definitions of terrorism for our twit ‘friends’ (even the moderate ones) at the OIC.
Here guys, let me help you out here–it’s clear that you’re confused.
With apologies to Jeff Foxworthy, if you strap TNT to yourself and detonate it in a crowded pizza parlor, you might be a terrorist.
If you walk into a wedding party and start spraying it with AK-47 rounds, you might be a terrorist.
If you drive a rental truck full of high explosives into the basement of a skyscraper and blow it up, you might be a terrorist.
If you purchase airplane tickets, then slit the throats of flight attendants and commandeer the aircraft, and fly it into the side of that same skyscraper, you might be a terrorist.
And if you obfuscate the definition of terrorism, use illogical and inconsistent statements to defend the above behaviors, change the subject whenever anyone calls you on it, pretend that there’s any justification whatsoever for them, ship weapons to those carrying them out, and provide large amounts of funding to the widows and family of the perps, you just might be a terrorist yourself.
In which case, you might want to at least consider recusing yourself from any committee dedicated to “defining terrorism.”