from 2004. I guess Heraclitus was right.
What am I saying? Heraclitus was right about every single thing he ever said.
Category Archives: War
punchline o’ the day: Gawker on 9/11
Yes, sometimes it’s definitely worth reading all the way to the bottom, particularly when you’re dealing with a really snarky website. Usually Defamer takes it in this category, but refreshed from their unnamed-reason sabbatical the regular Gawker editors are back on top. So to speak.
Under no circumstances should you read them “The Pet Goat”
As September 11 nears its inevitable reappearance on our calendar, Sara Berman at the New York Sun wonders how we’ll tell the children. A private school counselor gives her some advice:
“You’ll probably need to be the one to start the conversation with your child,” he said. “At dinner or at some other quiet time you could say something like, ‘Five years ago, something very sad happened to our country. You might hear people talking about September 11th and I want you to know what happened on that day. Bad people flew airplanes into important buildings. Lots of people were hurt and lots of people were killed. Just like we remember happy things every year, like birthdays, we also remember very sad things.'”
You know, the same way they explained it to the president.
The Stupidity Awards: the Republicans need your vote
although they are indeed well in the lead.
Here’s just one example of the categories:
STUPIDEST STATEMENT OF THE YEAR
* “No fruit loops!” – Ex-Dictator Saddam Hussein on his breakfast of choice while in jail.
* “They think work is a four-letter word.” – Senator Hillary Clinton, speaking about kids today.
* “I think they’re in the last throes, if you will, of the insurgency.” – Vice President Dick Cheney, on Iraq.
* “What do you think you’re looking at, sugar tits?” – Mel Gibson to female Sergeant in Malibu, California following his arrest for drunk driving.
* “My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this past week,” – Harry Whittington, after Dick Cheney shot him in the face. February 17, 2006
Seriously, with only one Democrat nominated (although that in several categories) it looks like this is one contest the Republicans can count on winning. Full list here, via Fark.
the White House Cabal, in their own words
by Tom Tomorrow. I’m sure I’ve posted this before somewhere, but it is high time I posted it again. Some people need to read it.
TWAT: the war against tees, Bush loses a round
So I guess that means the terrorists win. Meet the tiny tee terrorist.
and his weapon of mass destruction
Thirteen year old Zachary Guiles wore this t-shirt to school one day, thinking no doubt that he was giving The Man the finger.
But The Man don’t like to be fingered.
Next thing you know, Zach‘s cool, antiestablishment shirt is festooned with duct tape censoring out parts of the obvious message. I’m not making a great leap when I say that the coke lines were probably on the no-fly list, and perhaps the words “World Domination Tour” and maybe even “Chickenhawk In Chief“.
An appeals court in New York found that Zachary’s constitutional rights were violated when officials at his Vermont school made him stick duct tape over parts of the T-shirt. The shirt also said the president was undertaking a “world domination tour” and showed a picture of his head superimposed on a chicken’s body, along with cocaine, a razor blade and a martini glass. Zachary was suspended for a day, but continued to wear the T-shirt to school, complete with duct tape.
and rightly so; covering up the occurrance is nothing more than capitulation to censorship, so I am very glad that our young freedom fighter Zach bore the scars of his battle proudly.
But he did not bear them lightly, nor did he bear them alone.
Lawyers for Williamstown middle high school argued the images contravened the school’s ban on clothes promoting drink and drugs, but the court rejected the idea on the grounds that the T-shirt expressed “an anti-drug view”. Mr Bush has spoken of his battles with alcohol earlier in his life.
The T-shirt “uses harsh rhetoric and imagery to express disagreement with the president’s policies and to impugn his character”, the court ruled, but the images “are not plainly offensive as a matter of law”.
“The standard that the court set was that a kid has free-speech rights as long as the expression of those rights doesn’t upset the normal workings of a school,” said Allen Gilbert, of the American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the case.
Zachary said: “I think this is a very good sign that even with the current administration … there can still be a justice that allows free speech.”
He sounds almost as surprised as me!
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