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Archive for November, 2007

The Costco Coulter on Arabic

Posted: Wednesday, November 14th, 2007 @ 9:50 pm in Language, Political | 5 Comments »

Today the Costco Coulter has posted some “good and bad news” about the surge in popularity of Arabic as a foreign-language choice for American college students. She claims to have taken Arabic when she was in college (she doesn’t seem to have learned much, as we have noted in the past, but that’s another [...]

Friday Dog Blogging

Posted: Friday, November 9th, 2007 @ 3:51 pm in Dogs and Cats | 5 Comments »

Okapi, stretched out
Mystery, curled up in a ball

Bolton: The Most Extreme Case

Posted: Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 @ 9:49 pm in Political | 3 Comments »

Looney-tunes John Bolton was the subject of a brief, breezy interview in the Sunday New York Times Magazine. It wasn’t fawning and sycophantic like Crazy Pammy’s famous Bolton interview, but they didn’t exactly challenge him, either. Here’s the best part:
[Q] Lately members of the Bush administration have been making newly menacing-sounding comments about [...]

Clinton Mania

Posted: Tuesday, November 6th, 2007 @ 9:25 pm in Political | 3 Comments »

Clinton Mania, readers, is going strong. Proven liar Kathleen Willey, who really wants to move copies of her new anti-Clinton “book,” is escalating her campaign at WorldNetDaily. Her charges have grown from burglary and harassment to murder. That’s right, readers, she’s now accusing the Clintons of having her husband murdered fourteen years [...]

DeLillo Interview

Posted: Sunday, November 4th, 2007 @ 7:53 am in Literature | 2 Comments »

There’s a good Don DeLillo interview from Die Zeit magazine available online. If your German is rusty, you can read my English translation.

Tristero Gets It

Posted: Friday, November 2nd, 2007 @ 10:43 am in Political | No Comments »

Tristero gets it, readers:
Bush claims that if we don’t give him the right to make people scream out in sheer agony at what American officials physically inflict on them, he will not be able to keep you and me safe. George W. Bush is completely full of shit. I am prepared to accept whatever risk [...]