Funniest Men’s Magazine Headline of the Month
HAVE YOU HAD SEX WITH COLIN FARRELL YET?
–Details, Jan/Feb 2003
Page 89 of 224
Outrage overload. I can relate. I’m exhausted. Wake me up when it’s over.
Words mean things
“One of the most nationalistic things Americans do is reserve the word ‘nationalism’ (which implies something sinister and potentially homicidal) for other nations, while holding on to ‘patriotism’ (which is invariably seen as noble and good) for ourselves.”
-Barbara Ehrenreich, The Progressive, February 2003
Like many things these days, this is funny. (I think I’m about orange.) But it also gives me a tinge of fear. How long before any questioning at all is a punishable offense?
The women-vs.-men dynamic of “Survivor: Amazon” is interesting, but probably not enough to make me watch any more than the opening episode last night. I skipped the last two Survivors altogether, and nothing I saw last night has elevated it above the tidal-wave-like glut of reality TV right now.
Since it’s hard to keep 16 strangers straight in the beginning, Kevin and I spent most of the time making up nicknames for the contestants: Boob Girl, Asian Popeye, and Crazy Scary Nipple Man were among the castaways who made an impression, although not necessarily a favorable one.
Wake me up when it’s over.
“We’ve got to recognize that when we march into Iraq, we’re setting up the card tables in front of every university in the Arab world, the Islamic world, to recruit for al-Qaida. Why don’t we just go set up the card tables ourselves, right now? Sign them up to commit suicide. And you never hear anybody talking about this. It would be helpful if there were someone telling the president, well, yes, there is this danger from Iraq, but there’s almost a certitude of inflaming the world against us if we intervene.
“And on the war, I think my numbers would be a lot higher if I were out there beating the drum for this war. In fact, I don’t think it, I know it. But I can’t be for the war. I can’t find a reason to be for this war. I’ve looked, and I can’t, so I?m not. The people who are backing this war are more interested in their own ideology than what’s good for the country. It’s not about America. Which is scary.”
Chris Matthews making sense? I must be hallucinating.
I think this pretty much sums things up
Am I allowed to be amused that ultra-conservative shock jock nutjob (and latest MSNBC celebrity in the making) Michael Savage’s real name is “Michael Weiner”?
But then, as one reviewer said of his book, now No. 7 on Amazon.com’s bestseller list, “Weiner Nation” just doesn’t have the same ring to it.
Sometimes I worry that this site is becoming too political, and/or too deadly serious. Not that those things aren’t important, but I wonder if people come here for that sort of thing. I’ve been noticing how I swing wildly from posting about Joe Millionaire to posting about Guernica. I don’t know if many people hold those interests in common.
But I almost can’t stop myself from writing about the truly bizarre state of the country. With Bill O’Reilly and Patriot II and Guernica and orange alerts and plastic sheeting and Tom Ridge saying “specific information” doesn’t include time, place or manner, I sometimes don’t recognize the world around me any more. And one way I try to deal with it is writing about it. Bear with me.