Test Patterns

Fa fa fa fa fashion

Little did I know that when I choose to wear a sport coat and dress shirt without a tie today that I was emulating Ahmadinejad. Damn.

Fashion - Turn to the left
Fashion - Turn to the right
We are the goon squad
And we're coming to town
Beep-beep - Beep-beep

Journalist Anthony Shadid Discusses Lebanon

Anthony Shadid interview on Fresh Air

Journalist Anthony Shadid Discusses Lebanon (link fixed)

Anthony Shadid of The Washington Post has been reporting from Lebanon. Shadid won the Pulitzer Prize in 2004 for international reporting. His latest book, Night Draws Near: Iraq's People in the Shadow of America's War, has just come out in paperback. Shadid is of Lebanese descent and grew up in Oklahoma City, Okla.

The enemy = the brain

What else can you say...

Speaking of hand puppets

Evidently, Addington is to Gonzales as Cheney is to Bush.

Richard Clarke has a question

How gullible does the administration take the American citizenry to be?

Pretty damn gullible.

Answer: 2

The Question: The number of Republicans in the Senate that have any understanding what so ever of the very basics tenets of the US Constitution.

2

The way back machine

Hey Peabody who set the wayback machine to 2003?

The company they keep

I've heard many analysts insist that the neocon cabal no longer holds a grip on the White House. Bush 2 two point oh no is guided by wiser men, not ideologues, so they say...

Iran Bamboozler Invited to White House as "Expert"
By Paul Kiel - May 31, 2006, 11:35 AM

Two weeks ago, Amir Taheri published an op-ed in Canada's National Post about an Iranian law that forced Jews to wear a yellow stripe. The story, reminiscent of Nazi Germany, quickly provoked outrage, but was just as quickly revealed to be a total fabrication. It also ran in the New York Post.

funny thing about humility

Headline:
Bush adopts humility on Iraq

It’s a funny thing about humility
As soon as you know you’re being humble
You’re no longer humble
- T Bone Burnett

Under Taliban balls

OK, I know this is silly, but this Babel Fish translation made me chuckle...

The original headline in french:

Le Lotois tombe sous les balles des Talibans

The Babel Fish translation

Lotois falls under the balls from the Talibans