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Archive for May, 2007

Cemetry Gates

Posted: Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 @ 2:47 pm in Misc | 4 Comments »

Keats and Yeats were not on this guy’s side:
A night of drinking and tombstone tipping ended for a 22-year-old Merrillville man when one of the monuments came crashing down on his legs, police said.
Police said a security guard found Michael David Schreiber passed out and pinned under a 1,000-pound headstone shortly before 8 a.m. Sunday [...]

Cherchez l’arabe

Posted: Tuesday, May 8th, 2007 @ 1:16 am in Political | 1 Comment »

Whenever anything goes wrong, readers, especially if it involves shit blowing up, you know what to do — cherchez l’arabe. Or perhaps it should be cherchez le musulman. Here’s how it works:
First, something blows up.
LAS VEGAS, Nevada (AP) — A device left in a casino parking garage exploded early Monday, killing a man [...]

Histroy and Geopgraphy Defeat Dhimmitude

Posted: Sunday, May 6th, 2007 @ 9:30 pm in Political | 3 Comments »

As far as Crazy Pammy’s concerned, there is substantial joy in Mudville today, because Mighty Casey al-Akbar has struck out:
Responding to an outcry from parents, the city yesterday dropped plans to have a Brooklyn elementary school share its building with a new Arabic-language secondary school.
Education officials insisted the decision not to house the Khalil Gibran [...]

Friday Dog Blogging: Mystery

Posted: Friday, May 4th, 2007 @ 5:28 pm in Dogs and Cats | 4 Comments »

Okapi the dog has gone to Cleveland with his owner, so now it’s just me and Mystery.

Like most dogs, she doesn’t particularly like to sit still for the camera.

Not just another language

Posted: Friday, May 4th, 2007 @ 3:09 am in Language, Political | 11 Comments »

Who are the two dumbest people on the intertrons, readers? I think they might be Crazy Pammy and Mark Steyn. Here’s what happened when the two of them hooked up for an interview: Mark Steyn displayed quite a deep grasp of sociolinguistics.
Yes, on the face of it yes Arabic is a language [...]

Tucker Carlson, Environmentalist

Posted: Friday, May 4th, 2007 @ 1:53 am in Political | 1 Comment »

Tucker Carlson posed this question about Hypocritical Hitlery Klintoon and her gas-guzzlin’ airplane-flyin’ ways:
CARLSON: [Y]ou know as well as I that there is nothing that Hillary Clinton has a greater commitment to than our environment, this planet we live on, our island home. OK? Given that, her conspicuous use of private airplanes, [...]

Early review of new DeLillo

Posted: Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 @ 4:01 pm in Literature | 2 Comments »

If you’re interested, there’s an early review of Don DeLillo’s forthcoming novel Falling Man (which is scheduled to be released later this month) in the New York Sun.
You can keep an eye on the Falling Man Media Watch page at the Don DeLillo’s America site if you’re a big DeLillo fan like me.

Wingnut of the Week

Posted: Thursday, May 3rd, 2007 @ 11:22 am in Political | 4 Comments »

Shorter Glenn Beck:
Nazi Al Gore, who wants to usher in the New World Order, is using “global warming” as an excuse to seize power, just like the Nazis did in the 1930s with their vilification of the Jews.
Yes, that’s what he said:
And I read this one part on global warming about how they got — [...]