“I said I don’t know. Isn’t that clear? You don’t understand English?”
Rumsfeld demonstrating the results of his court-ordered sensitivity training.
Rummy, might I suggest a movie for you to watch after church this weekend?
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Author: matt
best subway line to spot someone reading white teeth or the corrections – L TRAIN
Capturing the NPR zeitgeist of the L TRAIN, these discursive tomes are daily removed from vintage satchels and displayed accordingly. On a recent Brooklyn-bound excursion, a guy with a bunny-eared copy of Franzen’s Saul Bellow-styled smarminess surreptitiously scoped an asymmetrically coiffed woman equally unwrapped in Zadie Smith’s pre-Autograph Man shaggy dog. If the faux literati were pretending to read the Marquis de Sade with their morning coffee, rush hour would be much more interesting. -Brandon Stosuy
“Bunny-eared”? I think the phrase Brandon is looking for is “dog-eared,” right?
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Informing us ’till death
RIP, Neil Postman, philosopher prince in the Empire of Signs.
Turn off your TV tonight and read Amusing Ourselves to Death
[Thanks, Dave]
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The curse of Predator
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The Company you keep
Actor Tom Arnold extended his congratulations by phone and told Fox News that he wished he could have attended the victory party. Actor Gary Busey spoke to the crowd and defended Schwarzenegger from the sexual assault allegations that had dogged him in the last few days of the campaign.
…from Foxnews.com
Depressingly accurate lede from The Los Angeles Times:
Californians have never known more about a new governor. We’ve seen him naked on screen. We know about the Nazi father, the celebrity journalist wife, the bodybuilding titles and the crude behavior toward women. We have seen him in theaters, fallen asleep to his voice on television and imitated his accent.
Californians have never known less about a new governor. We’ve never seen him hold office. We don’t know what programs he’ll cut, how he’ll balance the budget, how he’ll negotiate with recalcitrant legislators or how he’ll manage the state’s bureaucracy.
THE NEW GOVERNOR: So Familiar Yet So Unknown, by Joe Matthews (requires registration)
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Amusing image of the moment
Does Sharon know?
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Don’t they have CSI in Africa?
“We can only prosecute if there is sufficient evidence to justify the charge, but there is not enough evidence,” said Chris MacAdam, a lawyer for the National Prosecuting Authority.
Five Policemen Won’t Be Tried in Biko Killing, by The Associated Press
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Vanilla love
Suggested slogan: Sightly less nauseating than Vanilla Coke.