Look, shit happens when a bunch of young guys roll into a city for the weekend. (“Fallujah, baby!”) Sometimes in the heat of the moment, you just go blank, man, and shit happens, all right? But a buddy doesn’t videotape it, and he sure as hell doesn’t post it on his website: That’s guy rule #2. (#1, Bros before hoes.) Remind me not to invite Kevin Sites to my bachelor party next month. (“Mashhad, baby!”)
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Never Say Goodbye: Homo sapiens, one of the 15,589 animal species threatened with extinction.
“A total of 15,589 species of animals and plants are threatened with extinction, according to the so-called Red List of endangered species produced by the IUCN World Conservation Union.
“Almost an eighth of birds, a quarter of mammals and a third of amphibians are now classified as either vulnerable, endangered or critically endangered, categories that indicate there is a threat of extinction, the conservation group said in the report on its Web site. Species on the list range from the Bengal tiger to the giant Hispaniolan galliwasp lizard.”
–Extinction Threatens 15,589 Animal, Plant Species, IUCN Reports, Bloomberg News, UK.
I’ll Be Your Mirror: Maya Deren‘s mirror that reflects nothing.
“It’s easy to write a negative review of a Tom Wolfe novel; hundreds of people do it every few years. First, out of the thousands of sociological details Wolfe gets right, you pick out some he gets wrong (thus establishing your superior hipness). You mention that he obsesses over the superficial details of life while you ignore his moral intent (thus hinting at your own superior depth). Then you graciously allow that many of Wolfe’s scenes are hilarious, while lamenting that his characters are not fully developed. Then you call it a day.”
‘Moral Suicide,’ à la Wolfe, by David Brooks, The New York Times, Nov. 16, 2004.
Man Sets Fire to Himself Outside White House
And they say this isn’t Vietnam, the sequel.
A Crude Likeness – oil tanker named for National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Harper’s, July 2001
Bush Plans to Tap Rice…
Yeah, in her dreams.
War mementos, by way of the Associated Press: “U.S. Army critical care nurse Cpt. Marvetta Walker checks on a 9-year-old Fallujah boy who was wounded in the face and stomach, while at the 31st Combat Support Hospital in Baghdad, Iraq Monday, Nov. 15, 2004. The boy was in critical condition. The hospital has been treating both American wounded as well as civilians from the Fallujah fighting. (AP Photo/John Moore)”
SEE ALSO: “U.S. Planes Bomb Falluja as Rebels Battle On”
White(water) Trash: If your Presidential Library is on cinder blocks, you might be a red neck.
Does anyone else find it just a little bit insensitive that the soon-to-opened Clinton Presidential Center looks like a double-wide trailer?
I mean, yes, Clinton famously came from humble Southern origins, and, sure, his nickname is ‘Bubba‘, and yes, he was sometimes called ‘trailer trash,’ but this is just mean.
I wonder what our current president’s library is gonna look like: How ’bout this?
Then again, this may be more appropriate, since highfalutin’ books ain’t really his thing after all.
Goodbye Yellow Cake Road: The band is totally breaking up
Secretary of State Powell Resigns
He already has a job lined up here.
More Unmarried Women Giving Birth In Indiana*
*Not that we think having a child out of wedlock is wrong: That would be mighty un-Christian of us.
