It appears that there is going to be a blue-light special at K-Mart. One good thing about recessions in our economy- it makes businesses that should not exist or that have out-lived their purpose face facts. It does not take an award-winning economist to figure out why K-Mart will soon be bankrupt. Go visit the one in your hometown, and the reasons will be abundantly clear.
Just noticed this blurb in
Just noticed this blurb in the Best of the Web.
Somali-American “community leaders” in Minneapolis–home of America’s biggest concentration of Somali immigrants–are calling for a boycott of “Black Hawk Down,” “charging the new movie depicts their African homeland’s people as savages and could create a backlash against refugees who fled to the United States,” the Associated Press reports.
“The Somali people are depicted as very savage beasts without any human element,” Omar Jamal of the St. Paul-based Somali Justice Advocacy Center, tells the AP. “I’s just people shooting each other.”
People shooting each other? In a war movie? This is shocking! It’s not totally unheard of, though. A few years ago, we went to see “Saving Private Ryan,” and it, too, featured people shooting each other. How come German-Americans didn’t boycott?
The answer of course, is simple. German-Americans are white and predominantly Christian, and thus not afforded professional victim class designation.
Greg Hlatky at A Dog’s
Greg Hlatky at A Dog’s Life discusses the Korean practice of eating dogs.
I like dogs more than most people, so I think it should be clear where I stand on this issue.
Natalija at Libertarian Samizdata is
Natalija at Libertarian Samizdata is attractive as she is enjoyable to read.
Just watched Alan Keyes’s new
Just watched Alan Keyes’s new show. It will not make it. Too C-spanish. He did have an interesting discussion about the military tribunals with some members of the proletariat that he brought on, but overall the show seemed to be four hours long, when in fact it was only one.
Common Dreams reprints an editorial
Common Dreams reprints an editorial from the Mirror of London. Read this gem.
In the Washington Post, it
In the Washington Post, it is reported that Yasser Arafat is willing to die a martyr. I think we should accomodate that desire, and take the entire PLO structure and the Hamas with him.