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* Pattis Davis is confused: “The stated goal of this president is peace. Yet he began a war.” No, Patti; he’s finishing one.
* A petition worth signing: it supports jailed Yemeni journalist Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani.
* Natasha Walter asks: “Some new movies show sex in explicit detail, but are they sexy?” Well, they show sex in explicit detail, don’t they? Sheesh. Some people.
* Moby provides a reason for Bush’s re-election: “There are a majority of Americans who are scared provincial white Christians.” Moby, a vegetarian, is scared of meat.
* US Army journalist Bob Sminklemeyer: “I saw more Tina Turner albums in Iraqi homes than I ever have in my life. And I have no idea why. It was just weird. I mean, who likes Tina Turner?”
* Raymond Chandler blogs! Via the still-living genius that is Iowahawk.
* US poll maven Scott Elliott boldly predicts: “Either party’s pick could win in 2008.” (I’m unfair; hit the link for Scott’s fuller thoughts.)
* The poor aren’t getting richer … but they are living longer, eating better, and learning to read. Ron Bailey reports for Reason.
* Those Republicans just keep killing people: “Isn’t Scarborough the bloke who had an intern found murdered in his Congressional Office? What ever happened there? Anyone know? Not likely, Joe didn’t have a D after his name. Wonder if they ever found the black box from Wellstone’s plane too… maybe it’s gone to wherever the car Nicola Calipari was murdered in disappeared to. The Memory Hole perhaps.”
As for Joe Screw-your-borough, our very own ‘quit-while-I’m-
aheadhot’ ex-congressman, formerly employed by the law firm of Levin (Fred, of huge tobacco/malpractice/personal injury settlements), Papantonio (Robert Kennedy’s big amigo, speaker of such notable drivel as “Karl Rove has barnacles growing all over him,” the Pensacola attorney says of President Bush`s controversial political strategist. “I liken Karl Rove to a media version of an arsonist. ... But one problem is that the popular media have totally dropped the ball on covering Karl Rove.” on his Air America show, etc.) and now squawking cable lesser light…Oh, never mind. I’m not bitter.
Posted by tree hugging sister on 2005 03 11 at 01:57 PM • permalinkUM…the reason no black box recorder was ever recovered from the Wellstone crash was because THE PLANE WASN’T CARRYING ONE!!! As 0.18 seconds with Yahoo will confirm:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-11-04-video-usat_x.htm
Sorry, but I can lusting after vintage Turner way easier than an unhealthy Jerry Lewis fixation… (ok, maybe except the vaccum scene in Who’s Minding the Store?)
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 03 11 at 03:18 PM • permalinkHmmmm. I think Iraq is in the right, here.
dirgelike electronica
“People that come together,
People that come apart
No-one can stop us now
For we are all made of stars”vs.
cymbal crash, bitching horn riff
“Left a good job in the city
Workin’ for the man ev’ry night and day
And I never lost one minute of sleeping
Worrying ‘bout the way things might have been…”Two men enter! One man leaves!
Anyone who has heard a tune by Moby knows that boy needs to get a sausage into him fast, and not the tofu variety.
Posted by Major Anya on 2005 03 11 at 10:08 PM • permalinkTim is too humble to say it outright, but he appears and speaks with uncompromising Australianity in the Iowahawk article “The Big Snooze” to which he links above.
Hey everyone,
What Moby (what happened to the rest of his anatomy?) said was silly, but it’s not a reason to give a spray to those of us who don’t eat meat. Hardly anybody would eat meat if they saw what went on in an abattoir, or on a ship full of dehydrated, distressed livestock bound for the Middle East (the prize for surviving the journey is being beaten up and afterwards getting your throat cut, whilst seeing your other happy little gang share a similar demise).
You’d be surprised to know that a few similarly inclined to me aren’t all lefties.
The RSPCA and similar organisations were founded not by the protest crowd, but by good old fashioned conservatives.I’m proud to be a bourbon drinking vegetarian conservative.
Unfortunately, Skipper, the fanatical members of PETA are what leaves the impression of goofy veggy munchers in the minds of most people.
As for your description, my parents raised cattle for meat; my brothers and I had to feed and water them, and clean the barn of their manure.
Whenever Dad brought in the butcher, all of us children watched the whole thing, from the .22 to the head, down to gutting and dressing the carcass.
I always thought none the less of eating meat for this experience, and have a fine appreciation for the meat industry who brings it to my table.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 03 13 at 06:37 AM • permalinkHi Jeffs,
You present a euphemistic description of a less than edifying event. I’m sure there was much more manure, blood and urine around at the time of slaughter than at the times you had to clean up the barn. I don’t suppose however the neat shot to the head is a standard practice in most abattoirs, let alone in the Middle East where only the halal method is employed. Getting one’s throat cut is not a pleasant experience for any living being, I am sure you will agree.
I don’t know if you believe that those involved in the Live Meat Export Trade are those worthy of appreciation, especially when they have ignored veterinary concerns and those generally voiced by the RSPCA. It is unfortunate to label everyone who opposes such practices as “goofy veggy munchers”, especially when many average aussies signed petitions against the practice, as well as members of the RSPCA (I have donated to their cause but am not a member).
As for watching cattle being slaughtered, I would have been rather more disposed to participating in a game of cricket myself.
I don’t know of anyone that has died following a vegetarian diet-let me know if you know of someone that has.
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France has a Jerry Lewis fixation, Germany has David Hasselhoff, Iraq has Tina Turner… a more clever commenter may have a punchline for this.