WHICH set of former has-beens-that-never-were returned to the glare of the spotlight earlier this month? WHO reissued their most prominent document of fame and fortune yet, in what is either the ultimate comeback or merely another attempt to cash in on the zeitgeist of bourgeoisie socialism? WHAT makes this sort of bougie urban politicism that far removed from an overriding cultural interest in Jessica Simpson’s techniques for obtaining a bikini-worthy body?
Unrelatedly, Maer Roshan’s Radar project is out anew this month.
And, hey, you know what? Our tried-and-true “This looks like this, which is like that, which is like this” routine never ends! We’ll be here all week.
(with thanks to Adit Nathan)
A U.S. Marine writes an identification number on the forehead of an Iraqi man detained during a search in Haditha, 220 kilometers (140 miles) northwest of Baghdad, Wednesday, May 25, 2005.
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10 Dead as Car Bomb Tears Apart Baghdad Restaurant, the Los Angeles Times
Car bomb kills 5 at Shi’ite mosque in Iraq, Reuters
Four Car Bombings Kill Dozens Across Iraq, Associated Press
OK, those are some pretty distressing headlines, but…what exactly does a car bombing look like?
Nori Abdul Hussein, 4-years old, lies on a hospital bed in Baghdad’s al-Yarmouk hospital after being injured when a car bomb blew up outside the Abul-Fadl Abbas Shiite mosque in Mahmoudiya, about 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, killing at least 10 people at about the time worshippers would go to a mosque for sunset prayers, in Iraq Monday, May 23, 2005. (AP Photo/Haidar Fatehi)
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This Week in Green Muslim Puppetry
U.S. first lady Laura Bush, second right, and Egypt’s first Lady Suzanne Mubarak, right, accompanied by unidentified Egyptian official chat with the puppet Nem Nem as they tour the set of Aalam Semsem, or Sesame World, the Egyptian version of the popular American children’s show Sesame Street Monday May 23, 2005, in Cairo, Egypt. Mrs Bush was advocating childhood education during her visit to Egypt part of a Middle East tour. (AP Photo/Hasan Jamali, Pool)
President Bush, right, and Afghan President Hamid Karzai, left, walk off stage following their joint news conference in the East Room of the White House, Monday, May 23, 2005, in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Iraqis leaving the al-Jumhuriyah mosque walk over U.S. and Israeli flags, heeding a call by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr to paint Israeli and American flags on the ground in front of mosques for people to step on, in the southern town of Basra in Iraq Friday, May 20, 2005. Thousands of followers of a radical Shiite cleric staged protests against the U.S.-led occupation Friday. The protests follow Muqtada al-Sadr’s call Wednesday to reject the U.S. occupation of Iraq by painting Israeli and American flags on the ground outside mosques to be stepped on in protest raids against holy places. (AP Photo/Nabil al-Jurani)
Boulderite Dan Winters at the infamous mural of former President George Bush at the entranceway to Baghdad’s 5-star Al-Rasheed Hotel. Not pictured, but right below Bush’s face is written, in Arabic and English: “Bush is Criminal”
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A Majority amongst the Minority
Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist, R-Tenn., center, speaks as black religious leaders look on at a rally in support of Janice Rogers Brown, President Bush’s nominee to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, at Russell Park on Capitol Hill Thursday, May 19, 2005 in Washington, D.C.(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Wait, wait, that headline above must be wrong…right? How about, “The Minority amongst the Majority”? Or, wait, “A Minority amongst the Minority, alongside the Majority”? Hmm.
Minority leader Sen. Harry Reid, D-NV, center, answers questions at a news conference with members of the Congressional Black Caucus in the Senate Radio-TV Gallery on Capitol Hill, in Washington on Thursday, May 19, 2005.(AP Photo/Kevin Wolf)
Wait, wait, what’s this? God, this is all so confusing. As a reasonal, racially non-biased American — a white person — (though, you know, of course, race doesn’t matter to me…), I need to know, once and for all: Who do these mysterious Black People I keep hearing about support?
Today’s New York Daily News cover story touts the boldest of exclusives: “New York’s top lawmakers have been warned: Mess around with the West Side Stadium and the Olympics are lost.” Meaning, of course, that unless the proposed real-estate grabbing, massively bond-and-taxpayer-funded West Side stadium is erected near Penn Station, there can be no 2012 New York Olympics. (How very sad! New Yorkers have surely been pining for a long-term re-enactment of the hassle that was last fall’s 2004 Republican National Convention, right?)
Or, as the Daily News declares in their more appropriately condensed tabloid headline parlance, “NO STADIUM, NO GAMES.”
Logic and deductive reasoning? It’s, for the time being at least, another Daily News exclusive!
Of course, the rival Post won’t take this challenge sitting down. Look for their very own upcoming series of cover-story exclusives, including, but not limited to:
NO CEASEFIRE, NO PEACE
NO NEWSWEEK, NO WAR
NO TRUMP, NO BOMBAST
And, of course,
NO POST, NO PUNS
Sigh. It’s clearly time to move to Paris, huh?
President Bush speaks at the Republican National Committee Gala in Washington Tuesday, May 17, 2005. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
The celebration of Iraqi democracy’s second launch continues. In fact, it’s moved into the wacky publicity stunt phase!
Last night, as part of the ongoing launch party for the most expensive, anticipated democratic regime since Tina Brown’s revamp of the U.S.S.R., an insurgent lackey escalated the war of words by hurling several bullets at Dr. Ali Hameed, an official from Iraq’s Oil Ministry. Dr. Hameed responded by being pronounced dead at 8 AM!
Did somebody say CATFIGHT!!!! Oh, yeah, it’s on!
Iraqi Oil Ministry official gunned down [CNN]