Homeless Leftists (The Slide Continues)It's 1016 miles to Washington, we've got a bottle of ouzo, half a pack of soynuts, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses... Hit it!(Untitled)- May 30, 2004 The Final Days Alright, Mr. DeMille, I'm ready for my close-up. According to the Status Center, this blog will go offline on Tuesday evening. For forty bucks I could continue for another year, but the time has come to move on. Blogging is a low-risk, low-reward activity. It costs basically nothing to do, which is no doubt explains why there are millions of them out there. Leaving out a few prominent blogs like Andrew Sullivan's, I would hazard to guess that most people who.http://blogs.salon.com/0002486/2004/05/30.html#a350 (Untitled)- May 26, 2004 The Slide Continues "Bush's mind is like one of those spinning cages where you pull out the winning lottery numbers - but there's only four goddamn little balls in his cage: 'Freedom', 'Democracy', 'Terror', and 'Stay the Course'. He opens his mouth, one of the balls drops out. That's not a conversation, that's...http://blogs.salon.com/0002486/2004/05/25.html#a349 (Untitled)- May 16, 2004 This Is Not a Monkey Last night I heard a species-dysphoric novelty singer on the radio who believed that he wanted to be a monkey. I say &147;believed&148; because his lyrics revealed that he actually wanted to be a chimpanzee. He thought that if he was a monkey he could be in show business and perform humorous skits. Fat chance. Chimps, like the one above, get most of the good comedy roles. (Gorillas get some comic parts.http://blogs.salon.com/0002486/2004/05/16.html#a348 (Untitled)- May 4, 2004 What Do You Mean, We, White Man There has been a lot of discussion about whether English should be official language of the US. What we do have, apparently is an official skin color. At least according to our thoughtful President last Friday: There's a lot of people in the world who don't believe that people whose skin color may not be the same as ours can be free and self-govern. I reject that. I reject that strongly. I believe that people who practice the Muslim faith can self-govern. I...http://blogs.salon.com/0002486/2004/05/04.html#a346 |