Sunday, August 13, 2006
Jill Carroll’s Hostage Story, Told (11:40 PM) - The Christian Science Monitor, Carroll’s paper, has constructed a multimedia report to allow the erstwhile abductee to tell her story….
Mahmoud’s Blog (08:48 PM) - On his new weblog, Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posts a poll: “Do you think that the US and Israeli intention and goal by attacking Lebanon is pulling the trigger for another word war?” He means to say “world” war. So…
Joementum! (04:33 PM) - Connecticut likes Joe Lieberman better than Ned Lamont. O, happy day….
A Stark Proclamation (09:31 AM) - Until the Islamic Republic of Iran is a tolerant, peaceful, liberal, democracy which does not advocate and pursue the annihilation of a people, it should pretty much never “welcome” anything the United Nations does. If it does, the United Nations…
The McCain-Lieberman Party (07:51 AM) - Jeff Jarvis likes the idea—doesn’t offer any plausible evidence that it could be successful, but says prettily that he likes it—and quotes David Brooks saying this very keen thing:The McCain-Lieberman Party begins with a rejection of the Sunni-Shiite style of…
“A true story, yes, but a small one.” (07:37 AM) - TigerHawk (and his missus) review Oliver Stone’s World Trade Center film….
Sunday Morning Sinatra - “I’ve Got You Under My Skin” (06:29 AM) - “Cole Porter’s shining hour” is how Frank Sinatra used to introduce this song, written by the famous composer (who was, by the bye, one of the original Whiffenpoofs) in 1936 for Born to Dance. Sinatra started performing it in the…