Tuesday, August 27, 2002

Wimps United: Nicholas Kristof proudly struts his liberal wimpery in his New York Times column this morning (Clinton taught us liberals are lovers not fighters - see Dick Cheney's not so subtle Quote of the Day) and accuses Bush of harboring a bomb obsession. But, leave it to Dick Morris in the New York Post to nicely balance the situation. His last paragraph says it all.

Stories We Love: The high-living of conferring do-gooders always makes great copy and tales of delegates feasting at the "Pollution Summit" were inevitable. Our favorite tidbit was their outrage that Nelson Mandela was a no-show. His office informed the conference planners that he wasn't aware that he was supposed to be there as no one had remembered to invite him.

Read This and Wait: The Washington Post has a very interesting story this morning on the White House refusal to keep discussions of Clinton's pardons secret. We aren't lawyers (much to our mothers' happy tears of gratitude) and don't pretend to understand this one. Hopefully it will get sorted out in the media today. Meanwhile, be gleeful that anyone is looking into that mess at all.

Learning to Love Abductors: In a piece that offers to explain why men abduct, torture, rape and often kill children, the New York Times seems to be asking for "understanding." To this we say, "Feh!" and point you to what may be the single-most cynically-hilarious post of the night. Poster 'kidbuck" asks, "If I kidnap a child do I get my picture in the announcements section of the Times? "

They Have Won! Remember a year ago when we were told if we didn't go out to eat or to the mall, fly, drive, cruise, spend, play, sing, dance or ride a horse in the wind the "terrorists will have won"? Well, we are getting close as security at the U.S. Open orders the NYPD to put photo ID's on sniffer dogs. It certainly gives new meaning to the phrase, "Bomb Lab."

-Your Dog-Defending LComStaff