Google it if you haven’t already had it emailed to you, or have yet to come across it in the blogosphere, it’s all about Myanmar - Burma for those who use it’s former name.

It’s OK to criticize the US military leadership, or rank and file soldiers, if you’re Fox News or Rush Limbaugh…. otherwise shut the f#@k up ‘eh!

Five eyewitnesses to a Sept. 16 shooting incident in Baghdad involving the private security firm Blackwater USA insisted that company guards fired without provocation, forcing civilians and Iraqi police to run for cover, and that the Iraqi officers did not return fire.

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– that the Ahmadinejad’s of the world were alone in their religious denial about homosexuality…….

“I couldn’t get over the fact that there was no difference between Sylvia’s restaurant and any other restaurant in New York City. It was exactly the same, even though it’s run by blacks [and has a] primarily black patronship,”

In which balbulican admonishes a talented film-maker for obsessively devoting his career to the painstaking reproduction of mediocrity.

Ain’t vacations wonderful? Three days with good friends out in the country beside the river, back to town, do laundry, pack a bag, and grab some sleep before heading north on an early flight tomorrow morning — I’ll be back next week.

The Last Words of Marcel Marceau (1923 – 2007)

Send a trackback, leave a comment, and remember the day when DOS was king - they never should have rapped about it though, that was just wrong…… the cheesy dancers didn’t help either.

And now, the Pauline Kael Award for “DVD Cover Review Least Likely to Make People Rent a Movie”…

Tomorrow morning will see me early on the bike, and by tomorrow night this time I’ll be far down the road and well into the land of dial-up…. so don’t expect to hear much out of me until sometime Monday evening when I get back.

– blame the media.

The gates are down and the lights are flashing but the train ain’t coming, an intellect rivaled only by garden tools, would lose a debate with a doorknob, the wheel is spinning but the hamster’s gone, if you gave him a penny for his thoughts you’d get change, all the Mandelas are dead says he.

…we have parrot-y!