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Perhaps the need for clean public toilets will lead to an Iranian counter-revolution. As the Brooding Persian sez:
“A country, I keep telling everyone, which finds it practically impossible to keep its public restrooms clean has no business pursuing nuclear power.”
A Marine helicopter pilot in Najaf wrote an opinion piece in the NYTimes today. Read it.
Norman Podhoretz writes a long neocon interpretation of modern history and World War IV in Commentary. Read that, too.
Watchmen remixes, link courtesy of Bookslut.
Pity this guy didn’t get wasted up at SUNY Albany. He probably could’ve rushed a couple of frats during his visit.
Looks like that ring of Jesus fire didn’t follow Andy Pettitte down to Houston, huh?
Rick James, Fay Wray and now Julia Child. I used to love her show, as well as Dan Ackroyd’s great impression of her on SNL.
Great piece in the NYTimes today about the scandal of the UN’s Iraqi oil-for-food program. Claudia Rosett at the Wall Street Journal has been way out in front on this story, so it’s good to see it get front-page treatment from the Times.
Because, y’know, it shows that a lot of people had a vested and venal interest in not seeing any sorta change in Iraq. Which is to say, they were making boatloads of money by supporting the regime of a brutal dictator (or a “racketeering crime family,” as Hitchens has put it).
Note: One of the writers of the Times story is getting subpoenaed in the probe of the CIA leak.
So, if I vote for a gay man for governor, does that make me gay?
Bonus question: If I buy that TV stand I was looking at over at Crate & Barrel, does THAT make me gay?
Evidently, we’re supposed to wear jeans to battle breast cancer. Charlie Sheen says so. Why do I link to this item? Solely because of the opening clause about Mr. Sheen: “One of the most prolific actors in Hollywood . . . “
The most messed-up story I’ve read in a long time, courtesy of Drudge.