rush limbaugh don't know football...
you may know that espn hired dittohead limbaugh to offer commentary on its sunday morning NFL pregame show. too bad. he brings nothing. not only did he predict that the lowly dallas texans would beat the k.c. chiefs in week 2 (what was he smoking?), but he suggested that philadephia eagles q.b. donovan mcnabb is overrated and a token black playing the quarterback position.
surriously. i hope mcnabb punches him in the face. i'd pay to see that.
do you know any slow or special people
do you know any slow or special people
do you know any slow or special people
do you know any slow or special people
do you know any slow or special people
do you know any slow or special people.....
i wanna go to hawaii, yeah!
you may need this recipe....
ok. i doubt you'll ever be in prison but if you get caught up in the fast life, you need to learn to adapt to prison life. remember, there's only way to get your drink on behind bars -- pruno. it's a sick fermented drink made from sugar, fruit, ketchup and bread rolls. yumm.
bling-blang....
i love fall from grace stories. this one is great. it's about a bigtime stylist who was pawning million dollar jewelry loaned to him by harry winston etc.
stringers and superstringers...
the insider dynamics of the ny times have always been interesting and tumultuous. (i highly recommend a.e. rosenthal's autobiography, btw). anyway, the village voice has a story about bylines that talk a bit about how staff writers don't really do most of their own reporting.
let them watch fox news...
you know things ain't going well in iraq, or "Mess-o-potamia" as the daily show calls it, when you start reading things like this.
let them watch fox news...
you know things ain't going well in iraq, or "Mess-o-potamia" as the daily show calls it, when you start reading things like this.
say hello to my little friend...
i didn't even realize that the great al pacino remake of "scarface" got bad reviews and initially flopped at the box office. it may be my top movie of all time, up there with "carlito's way" (way way way underrated), "casablanca" (saw this in the theater and it blew me away), "training day" and "the exorcist."
i may have to blog more about films....so don't sleep.
free tibet...
remember the catchy late-90s trendy political movement? well the ny times had this story today about how the chinese are basically trying to turn tibet into a chinese colony. guess how they want to do it? by moving in millions of ethnic chinese, which undermines the indigenous culture of tibet.
by the way, the movie "kundun," is a great film on the subject.
death by "mysterious ways"....
this is from fareed zakaria's excellent column on msnbc. here's iraq's sordid history in the last century:
IRAQ HAS ONE of the most violent histories of any country on the globe. In comparison even with other states in the Middle East, Iraq’s modern history has been marked by turmoil, coups, bloodshed and mayhem. Consider the fate of its rulers:
Faisal I: Installed by the British in the wake of a violent revolt, he ruled for 10 years and was one of a handful of Iraqi leaders to die of natural causes, in 1933.
Ghazi I: Faisal’s son, he witnessed a coup against his prime minister three years after being installed and then, in 1939, died mysteriously. The official explanation was that he drove his car into a lamppost.
Faisal II: The young king, his regent and almost the entire royal family and entourage were killed in a bloody coup in 1958.
Abdul Karim Qassem: Qassem came to power in the coup of 1958. In 1963 he was killed in a coup himself.
Abdul Salam Arif: Arif came to power in the 1963 coup, which unleashed a wave of massacres across the country. Three years later he died mysteriously in a helicopter accident.
Abdul Rahman Arif: Brother of the above, he lasted about as long. In July 1968 he was ousted in the Baathist coup and exiled to Istanbul.
Ahmed Hasan-al-Bakr: Became president after the 1968 coup and stayed in power until 1979, when he stepped down for reasons of “ill health” in favor of his deputy, Saddam Hussein.
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