~ from “Archaeologists start Stonehenge dig”
“Even the Druids are happy with this project, we’ve spoken to them and they don’t object.”
druids? should not those druids inform the ‘archaeologists’ that the stones were set up in the 1920’s? did they even have druids back then?
~ oliver stone apparently desires that his film on george w bush is taken seriously:
Expected to portray First Lady Laura Bush is Elizabeth Banks, whose credits include “The 40 Year-Old Virgin” and the upcoming “Zach and Miri Make a Porno.”
BREAKING NEWS: Mississippi Democratic primary too early to call, NBC projects
BREAKING NEWS: Some Things Have Not Happened Yet, ABC News reports
BREAKING NEWS: There Is Some Shit That We Don’t Know, CNN believes
BREAKING NEWS: We Do Not Have Anything to Report — CBS News
~ we can’t wait until the texas presidential primary is finished, and the only reason is not just to stop hearing from hillary ‘she voted for the war’ clinton until 2012. what annoys us more than that charlatan is the repeated use of the term ‘firewall’ to describe states that some candidate has to win in order to continue campaigning. we heard it first about new hampshire, but we only found it mildly irritating in the sense that it did not sound nearly as ‘plugged in’ as the person who coined it might believe; we also believed that the phrase would never be uttered again, once hillary ‘nafta was a good idea’ clinton was trounced in new hampshire. however, clinton cried on tv and won enough sympathy votes to carry on. now that every time hillary ‘defense of marriage act’ clinton loses a primary, the next set of primaries become the new set of states that she ‘must win’, ‘firewall’ does not die a ‘quiet death’; it has maintained ‘staying power’ as this season’s ‘must have’ turn of phrase for every npr reporter and politico-blogger. ‘firewall’ is this ‘cycle’s‘ ‘parse‘.
~ they got that right:
Word of the Day for Friday, February 15, 2008
ennui \on-WEE\, noun
~ anyone who reads newspapers knew all along that the recent ‘incident’ with the u.s. and iranian ships in the strait of hormuz, the location of which no american knows, was more staged than a scene on insidethecastle.org, but the late, quiet revelation that the whole thing might have been the work of an anonymous ham radio operator who spends his time insulting passing ships has to be the best story about a private individual stirring shit up since that homeless guy started a fire that shut down the subway in new york.
A heckling radio ham known as the Filipino Monkey, who has spent years pestering ships in the Persian Gulf, is being blamed today for sparking a major diplomatic row after American warships almost attacked Iranian patrol boats.
–guardian.co.uk
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“I don’t think this campaign is about gender, and I sure hope it’s not about race.” hillary clinton
that’s rich!
~ hfs! just last week we told someone to avoid using network solutions when registering a domain name, because we suspected that if you don’t purchase a name when you search for it, they will snatch it up. now look what is reported:
New domain name practice criticized
NEW YORK – A company that sells Internet domain names is facing criticisms for holding some in reserve as a consumer-protection measure, a move that also prevents interested parties from shopping around for better prices.
After weeks of testing, Network Solutions LLC began this week to grab names that people search for on its Web site but don’t immediately register.
we knew it!
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ok, then!
~ from the outbox:
also, it looks like i was dead wrong about hillary’s ‘crying’ being a fuck up
now, it is all anyone talks about – how it ‘saved’ her campaign by getting all these sympathetic women to vote for her.
this seems condescending to the ability of women to make rational decisions,
but wtf do i know about it?
although, a woman just called in to day-to-day [w] to admonish all men for calling hillary clinton ‘hillary’ while calling barack obama ‘obama’, as though using a first name puts someone in ‘her’ place. has anyone seen a campaign sign for ms. clinton? what name does she use?
maybe people say ‘hillary’ (like ‘w’ in ’00) so as not to be confused with the other clinton (like bush) we had 8 years previously, which is fucking stupid on an entirely new level.
~ corporate politics is lame; there are some more interesting discussions over at cafe tableaux and sisyphean