As you read, listen and watch Hurricane Katrina anniversary coverage, you will hear several people imply or flat-out say that New Orleans was destroyed by a hurricane. It was not. The destruction of New Orleans was a man-made disaster. The…
Osama Bin Laden apparently has a thing for Whitney Houston. From today’s NYPost. I enlarged the best bits. Kola Boof, 37, the Sudanese poet and novelist who claims to have once been bin Laden’s sex slave, writes in her autobiography,…
“I just want to remind everyone that it’s what’s inside that really matters.” -Jessica Alba, upon receiving her “Choice Hottie” award at tonight’s Teen Choice awards. Runner-up stupid comment (so far): “This crowd just needs a little booze.” Pre-show host…
Two months ago, I wrote about someone else writing about how the U.S. government was making an anti-suicide bombing TV commercial for broadcast in Iraq. Here’s the commercial. Below is my original post on the subject: According to Newsweek, the…
The following business card showed up in my home mailbox this morning.
Do people who drive Hummers have little self-regard? Do people who drive Hummers do it to compensate for personal shortcomings? The answers to those questions are apparently yes and yes. Says who? Says the advertising agency who made the most…
The National Park Service announced last week that visitors will no longer be allowed to climb to the crown of the Statue of Liberty. The reasons given by the National Park Service: fire hazard and, you guessed it, terrorism. What…
Reports indicate that two FOX News journalists have been kidnapped in Gaza. I hope that they’re released quickly and unharmed. I also hope that, unlike Christian Science Monitor reporter Jill Carroll, who was abducted in Iraq and held for nearly…
Report: US helped Israel plan Lebanon offensiveBy Tom Regan | csmonitor.com A special report in The New Yorker says the Bush administration was closely involved in the planning of Israel’s retaliatory attacks against Hizbullah in Lebanon, and US officials hoped…
