Missives From the Reality-Based World
Right, so General Petraeus is telling us that the surge in Iraq is working, which is interesting, since Rummy (who I thought was irrelevant even before he left office) has said Iraq is being “hampered” by failures in its government, but Afghanistan is a success.1 Meanwhile, according to a poll of Iraqis — you know, the people who […]
MSNBC passes along the “news” that Laura Bush will go under the knife Saturday. Tragically it’s not an assholectomy, so we’re still gonna be stuck with George; no, she’s going to have work done on some pinched nerves in her neck. That might go a long way toward explaining the bizarre lack of ability her face seems […]
05 Sep 2007 at 13:09
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One Thousand Words, Reality Trumps 'God', You Must be F***ing Kidding
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There’s simply no way that we can extend the concept of tolerance to any practitioners of the following examples of egregious stupidity: Officials at Nepal’s state-run airline have sacrificed two goats to appease Akash Bhairab, the Hindu sky god, following technical problems with one of its Boeing 757 aircraft, the carrier said Tuesday. Yep, goat […]
As a pre-adoptive candidate parent, I was encouraged to write a letter to my (still unknown) prospective child. The idea behind this is obvious: I must delineate, as best I can, why I want to be a father; while superficially the letter might be a kind of commercial promoting myself as a parent, the real purpose is to expose, to me, what my motivations are. […]
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