Month: June 2006

I’ve probably recommended the songs from thepartyparty.com before.  Perhaps the best of them is George W. Bush’s version of Sunday Bloody Sunday.  But on this page we’ve got a video version of it!  Oh, and also an incredibly young U2 performance of the same song.  Were U2 ever that young?  Is Bono… is he doing Michael Flatley’s Riverdance???

The Persecution of the Palestinians by Pat Buchanan.  Via reddit.  Pat talks some sense here.  Not the first time I’ve been surprised to find myself in agreement with him.

If you’re a Wiccan, the Army might not let your family put your religious symbol on your grave.

But in Saudi Arabia, they’d “terminate” you.  (The article doesn’t actually add “with extreme prejudice,” but what prejudice could be more extreme than that?)

Heard the following story from a friend who didn’t want to post it to his blog, just in case his client didn’t approve, so I offered this space as an alternative venue…

So I get a call last week. It’s from someone who knows someone I know. They need help installing their DSL. I can do that. I don’t pay attention to what the name of the place is.

I take down their address, file it, don’t think about it till this morning as I’m driving there. I get there.

I read the sign. It’s a crematorium.

I go inside, note people in suits. An older man asks me if he could get around me. He’s picking up someone’s ashes. I am wearing jeans and a blue, button down shirt with some rather loud (red and blue) triangles on it.

I wonder if that’s why they put me in the room with the dead bodies? Actually I know better. They put me in there because that’s the room the phone line comes into the building. And anyway, I only got to see a foot before the woman came in and drew a curtain across the room.

So anyway, DSL. Dead bodies on gurneys.

I’ll be back again tomorrow.

“A Recent Surge In Violence…”

Blogger documents the nigh-continuous use of the phrase “recent surge in violence” to describe the situation in Iraq since we invaded.