Sunday, January 23, 2005

Second Helping!

Donald Trump's wedding was a tad bizarre, but did Katie Couric really have to wear a clown outfit?

Now Playing: 'Anybody But Dean, Part 2'. C'mon Donks, don't be party poopers! Deano is da bomb!

Update: American Digest has:
Twenty-one subjects so tedious that the mere mention of them makes me want to unwind with a small shooting spree.
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17) The United Nations and its plans to take $195 billion from you over the next few years. I'd pay $1,000 for a front row seat to watch the building blown into the East River. $2,000 if occupied. Above that, I'm out.

18) Any and all award shows involving television, film, or music celebrities. I will make an exception for "The Buffy Awards" in which a golden spike is driven into the hearts of the winners. Runner-ups to be nail-gunned onto "The Walk of Fame."
And while you're there, check out Inaugural Leak: Iraq Exit Strategy Unveiled.

Meanwhile Tim Blair has fun with the WaPo and The night the soldiers came:
The Washington Post's Jackie Spinner meets a calm and reasonable Baghdad resident who turned against the US after ... well, you'll find out soon enough.
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Imaad and his mother said the soldiers rushed in, ordering them to sit together while they searched the house. "You look poor," Imaad recalled one of the soldiers saying. "Why?"
Seems an unusual thing for a soldier to say. Maybe he was a Sociology Commando.
Imaad answered in English: "I have not been able to find a job, although I'm a graduate of the College of Arts." His heart was pounding, Imaad said.
As well it might. For we are about to reach this story's moment of Hitchcockian ultra-horror:
No spoilers here! You have to follow the link. Let's just say that Imaad is a naughty boy!

Update 2: You won't read anything stranger than this today.