Monday November 26, 2001

Quote of The Day

"Normally you're a pacifist and you don't want any kind of war at all. But occasionally something so atrocious happens that there's got to be some kind of response. After the New York attack, my attitude was like screw you, man, just screw you. "

--Sir Paul McCartney

"I have a policy never under any circumstances to go on any Fox talk show. I regard (Bill) O'Reilly and (Sean) Hannity as blatant racists!"

--Alan Dershowitz in the Boston Herald

After a Sunday like this, Monday doesn't seem so bad.

Where The Boys Are: While you were out, the Marines have landed. From the looks of the big morning papers we are swarming the last Taliban holdouts around Kandahar with men and military equipment most have never heard of.

Here's the NYTimes report

and here's the Washington Post

. and here's what the LA Times has to say about Sunday's action.

Intelligence sources say no way Osama's coming out alive. This is good. The Economist reported this week that some dramatic kidnappings are planned should terrorists need leverage to ransom a living bin Laden.

Osama's Little Gun: Here's a wonderfully esoteric, somewhat loopy and thorough entertaining piece from the Washington Post about.....well.....the Zen of Guns. You'd have to live inside Stephen Hunter's head for a while to get the full point but it sure will clear out the cholesterol clusters you built up couching out this weekend.

Look, Muffy, Khaki is In: Howard Kurtz tells us that the chic magazines have gone to war and are jamming their upcoming issues with cover to cover war stories. Vanity Fair's Graydon Carter remembers that the original Vanity Fair mentioned Hitler only twice before folding in 1936. This fellow is a regala historian.

Tribunal or Rubber Hose? Whatever: Laura Ingraham has a neat piece in USA Today this morning on the idiocy of Senator Patrick Leahy, D-Vt demanding hearings on Bush's military tribunal decision. Someone might remind Leahy that he's dealing with folks who don't mind kicking Daisy Cutter bombs out of the back of an airplane. Watch the same philosophy being applied to his butt this week.

Have A Giggle: From time to time we run across a site we want you to know about. This one is just sheer fun - sort of Lucianne.com Lite. Some delightful nutcases run it and it's called fark.com. Click on over it's a giggle.

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