Now I know the 21 miles you had left to SEATAC is not far when you’re going 300 miles per hour but you were still a bit low, boys. The local birds fly higher.

The only thing I will admit changed in me post Autumn of 2001 is that I don’t fucking like jet planes to be flying where I have never seen them fly before.

That boy’s more full of shit than Timmy McVeigh’s moving van.

’Course it just reminds one that being full of shit does not mean harmless and sometimes should command a little caution and respect.

Top Hamas official: Kill all Americans

take 1

Ashley: Stupid terrorist! Be. More. Original.

take 2

Just to remark that I read the original transcripts and they were translated quite badly. He did not say, “Kill all Americans.” He used an inflected form of the genitive meaning, roughly, “land upon which American Indians live.” He was really just siding with about 10 US presidents and America in general offering his support for the genocide of any indigenous populations which stand in the way of freedom’s progress.

Rage Against the Machine rages at Coachella music festival

[Zack de la Roch] also railed against the war in Iraq and likened Bush administration officials to Nazi war criminals.

“This current administration is no exception. They should be tried and hung and shot,” he said.

Solvej Schou, Associated Press

That’s why I’ve always hated these guys. That is so wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong, wrong. You absolutely do not hang and shoot them. You shoot them then hang them. What the hell has happened to etiquette in this country?

Plus — quit stealing my material. All y’all are like 18 months behind on everything I post.

Fiery crash collapses Bay Area freeway

A gasoline tanker crashed and burst into flames near the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge on Sunday, creating such intense heat that a stretch of highway melted and collapsed. Marcus Wohlsen, Associated Press

It’s a conspiracy, man!!! We all know that there is no such thing as fire hot enough to make steel supported concrete collapse.

Oh, but the Lord loves Hisself some idiots.

Love plans to sell Cobain’s belongings

That doesn’t sounds like her. It seems so classless and desperate. Not whorey and grasping.

Employer beheads worker for not milking cows

There. Now we all know the actual definition of an overreaction.

Okay, I know what you’re thinking but it’s uniquely dangerous to shoot the agent of your Karma.

Still, I want you to take a moment and curse me. Really let it out. Start a comment in your mind. All the expletives you can affix to the word “misogynist.”

Now, there are some good reasons to go after her that we won’t really dig as deeply as I’d like because she’s pulled her posts; the epitome of bad netiquette by the way. She recently pretended to prove that Cho Seung-hui was a Pakistani Moslem, making the Virginia Tech massacre another reason Iran needs to be returned to sender. Why would someone do this? Because she cannot tell the difference between two different men of a race other than her own. Well, not her own, but… oh, dear, better not.

Why I’m entitled to do the pictorial above–

NAAFA hails fat celebrities, like actress Camryn Manheim ("I proudly say I'm a size 24. I really, really don't want a life without tiramisu," she told Marie Claire mag), author of New York Times best-seller "Wake Up, I'm Fat." Wake up, you're disgusting.

This is what she said about Camryn Manheim, a woman who is not only very talented but seems to be enjoying her life. Wouldn’t that be something, Debbie!

Calling people fat has a rich tradition of the old boomerang. I remember when Al Franken put on about 100lbs right after he published Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other Observations. I can only lament I never read the book since I’m sure the other observations were equally keen.

This got me reflecting though. What if I get fat someday? Won’t everyone get a big laugh out of that because I insulted so many heavy people? But I realized I haven’t. I generally don’t put much stock in looks, color, size, whatnot. Only when it’s ironic, like a Yiddish girl having trouble telling two completely different Korean men apart or calling some woman disgusting for refusing to be ashamed of enjoying dessert. Maybe Debbie’s just jealous. She shouldn’t be though. She’d have an Emmy® too if they had a category for Best Post By a Deranged Unconsciously Ironic Racist Bitch. They can’t give them all to Malkin and Coulter.

I do call a lot of people stupid though. A lot. I wish automatic readers could read italics. I feel bad that my section 508 readers don’t know that “a lot” was just in italics.

So I was getting nervous that I’ll be stupid someday. That’s how it works. The Gods love that shit. But I think it’s more of a Flowers for Algernon situation because the great thing about calling other people idiots is that if I’m someday struck on the head by a dresser falling off some Okie’s unsecured load of crap on the Interstate and lose most of my IQ, I will be too stupid to comprehend the irony of ever having called anyone stupid.

Dear ______, ______, and _______,

From what I hear, you got your shot with an A&R guy in New York City. Private audition. You spent all night before partying and getting coked out of your minds. You blew the audition and any chance you’d ever have of getting signed.

Maybe it was just exaggerated gossip but it sure sounded like you guys to me.

An excellent roundup / mini-retrospective from Juan Cole — Mission Accomplished, 4 Years on: A Commentary in Links.

Including this entirely predictable, refreshingly unambiguous gem [our emphasis]–

…our study likely understates the extent of jihadist terrorism…

…The rate of terrorist attacks around the world by jihadist groups and the rate of fatalities in those attacks increased dramatically after the invasion of Iraq. Globally there was a 607 percent rise in the average yearly incidence of attacks (28.3 attacks per year before and 199.8 after) and a 237 percent rise in the average fatality rate (from 501 to 1,689 deaths per year).

Iraq 101: The Iraq Effect – The War in Iraq and Its Impact on the War on Terrorism

Or again, you could just take it from me–

I’m gonna go out on a limb here. With a couple dozen new sub agencies, a crazy-ass reporting structure devoid of a clear chain of command, and a diluvian amount of new “intelligence,” in the form of your email and telephone calls, to sift through for meaningful information… The red tape has grown in on itself like pneumonia on HIV. I think the chances of a successful terrorist attack are about 10 times higher today than they were in August of 2001. 89 to 10, 6 March 2006

In all fairness I must admit I was wrong. I predicted a tenfold drop in safety and it’s actually only sevenfold. That’s what you get for exaggerating.

Last year met a kid on the playground with my kids. The boy was named Nemo. I was ecstatic. I could not believe I had overlooked this possibility when naming my boy. I said, ”That's sooooo cool. I wish I was named after a homicidal, genius maniac like Captain Nemo!” Except I didn’t do that because this is a 4 year old. I said, “Wow, like Captain Nemo.”

He said, “No. Like the fish.”

Fish? Oh, yeah…

I grabbed the boy by his shirt and dragged him to his mother at the slides where I berated her for a solid sixty seconds, only stopping when she began to cry and shake, about what a foolish thing that was to hang on a kid and that she should at least allow him the dignity of pretending it was an idea taken from Verne not Pixar.

Except I didn’t do that because it would be effing crazy and besides – life is going to do it to the kid plenty by the time he ends up at the county courthouse with an undeniable petition for “Eric.”

Terrah!

• ≈ 3,000 Americans killed.
• 7–20 billion dollars in monetary damage.

Righteous hand of God, aka George W Bush et alii

• 3,728 Americans killed and counting every day.
• Minimum of 500 billion dollars in monetary damage and counting every day.
• 70,000–750,000 Iraqis, Afghanis, and allies dead depending upon how you prefer to count corpses.

So, I suppose the germane question is — If it’s really is just a choice between a new “9/11” and a new “George W Bush,” which is actually going to hurt worse?