“We ask for the cooperation of the public and ask your pardon for the inconvenience.” -From an announcement by the Thai military, which today overthrew Thailand’s elected government. For some basic information about the events that preceded the coup, try…
Me: I’d like an egg and cheese McMuffin, please.Cashier: Ummm, uh (looks at buttons on cash register) egg and cheese?Me: Yes, please.Cashier: (silently looks at cash register)Me: How about a Sausage McMuffin with no sausage?Cashier: Okay (rings me up).
Just because he called a native Virginian with brown skin a monkey and has an enduring obsession with displaying the Confederate flag, doesn’t mean that Sen. George Allen (R-Virginia) is a racist. On the contrary, Allen so loves all people…
The photo below is of pages 14 and 15 of today’s New York Times. The ad on the left is for a Ted Koppel-hosted program on Discovery. The ad on the right is for the ABC mockudrama about the lead-up…
From a USA Today “opinion” piece by Marvin Kalb about Katie Couric’s first week at CBS News: “Her interviews with New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman and talk show host Rush Limbaugh catered to the far left and far right,…
“The fighting is extraordinarily intense. The intensity and ferocity of the fighting is far greater than in Iraq on a daily basis,” Brig. Ed Butler, the commander of British Forces in Afghanistan, told British ITV news. The quotation is from…
41 minutes and 42 seconds. That’s how long I stayed on hold with the office of Fulton County Tax Commissioner Arthur Ferdinand’s office before hanging up the phone. In that time, I probably could have seceded and built my own…
Who: Me What: A Judge Where: The Queen of the Strut pageant at Mary’s in East Atlanta — part of the East Atlanta Village Strut When: Sat, Sept 9, 2006 Why: Because Carmen asked me to and she has a…
I received the following e-mail this morning from a reader of Columbia, South Carolina’s Free Times, which runs my Don’t Panic column. The font, color, italics and stray apostrophes are in the original:Pieces written by a pile of Dog Shit…
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…
