SALT LAKE CITY – Two men planning to throw lighted fireworks from a car were burned when they forgot to roll down the window. Duh.
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Maybe it’s breaking at last: Boing Boing reports via various blog links that Seymour Hersh is going somewhat more public with the assertion that children were raped at Abu Ghraib, and that the Pentagon has the videos. There’s a lot of discussion out there on the Net – see the comments sections of the blogs linked by BoingBoing. I would still like to know whatever happened to the story of the Titan contractor that was accused of raping a teenage boy that was reported on back in May on :NPR’s Marketplace.
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I was listening to AAR – Majority Report just now for the first time in a while, and happened on an interesting discussion with George Lakoff, author of Moral Politics : How Liberals and Conservatives Think. It’s very interesting. He proposes that political views can be categorized by two family archetypes, the Strict Father and the Nurturing Parent. As he spoke listing the attributes and belief systems of each model, it made our current political system of dysfunctional polarism sound more and more like Family Feud. There’s a lot more about how to take back control of the national debate…
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The 2004 Emmy nominations were announced: TAR is up for four of them: Cinemetographym, Editing, Sound Mixing, and Outstanding Reality-Competition Program. And hey! Futurama got a few nods, too. Wish it hadn’t been cancelled, but maybe there’s hope for it yet.
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Rance is thinking of hanging up his mouse and pulling the “Dread Pirate Roberts” maneuver. A world without the one true Rance is like a world without… little tiny green letters and amusing barbed wit. Um. I’ve been having even more fun reading the whacked out “Gus Overshaw” that he recommended, but Rance’s blog would be sorely missed. Several of us suggested solutions to make it easier for him to continue in some way; I hope he’s just messing with us and making “biddity-biddity” noises with our heads. I’ve been trying to make sense of some of the issues that…
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Hammer left Iraq with his unit in March, then flew from Kuwait to San Francisco in cargo-class. He traveled first class with an Alley Cat Allies volunteer to Denver. Bousfield met the kitten at the airport. Right, right, right yes, okay I’m crying, but in a good way. That’s one saved.
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The Salt Lake Tribune — Senate’s gay marriage debate veers into polygamy discussion pretty much says it all.
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Just checking the schedule at our local channel, because TAR is on tonight! I am so stupid about this show. Yes, it’s like an addiction. I’m also addicted to reading Miss Alli’s recaps afterwards, because that’s how I actually got addicted in the first place. How can you not laugh at this: They start by suiting up in white coats, and Alison and Donny are the first to get their beef out of the way. Bob takes the side of beef and immediately predicts that he will never make it a half-mile. Mirna takes the beef for her team (ew),…
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One of the things that I’ve learned as a loyal TWOP-er and TAR fan is that sometimes
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Mr Idema, it emerged yesterday, has a colourful past. A volatile former Green Beret with a criminal record in the US, he describes himself as a security adviser. He also claims that he is the person on whom George Clooney’s part in the Hollywood film The Peacemaker was based. A weird story just got weirder – not only does he claim that the lead character in “The Peacemaker” was based on him or his exploits, he’s the guy that threatened to punch out Geraldo Rivera in the early days of th Afghan war over Rivera’s reportage. Besides which, has he…