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"Mike and Jon, Jon and Mike—I've known them both for years, and, clearly, one of them is very funny. As for the other: truly one of the great hangers-on of our time."—Steve Bodow, head writer, The Daily Show
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"Who can really judge what's funny? If humor is a subjective medium, then can there be something that is really and truly hilarious? Me. This book."—Daniel Handler, author, Adverbs, and personal representative of Lemony Snicket
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"The good news: I thought Our Kampf was consistently hilarious. The bad news: I’m the guy who wrote Monkeybone."—Sam Hamm, screenwriter, Batman, Batman Returns, and Homecoming
July 20, 2006
Letters To Sign
The new organization Just Foreign Policy has put together several worthwhile petitions on U.S. policy in the mideast:
Americans call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon
American Jews call for an immediate ceasefire in Lebanon
Americans call on the U.S. government to rule out a military attack on Iran
Americans call on Bush to rule out his planned Plasma Cannon assault on the moons of Jupiter
Okay, the last one is made up. But the rest are all well worth signing, as applicable. And as I think about it, the last one might be worth signing too just to be on the safe side.
Posted at July 20, 2006 07:44 PM | TrackBackThanks for the links Jonathan.
Posted by: rob payne at July 20, 2006 08:29 PMJonathan,
I tried to be on the safe side by signing the last link to the moons of Jupiter, but all I got was a nice view of Uranus!
Posted by: americanintifada at July 20, 2006 11:56 PMHey, wasn't Ganymede Jupiter's lover? A new front in the kulturkampf! Just in time for mid-terms.
Posted by: Cal at July 21, 2006 04:46 AMAs the Allied general surrounded and outnumbered by the Nazi army at Bastogne said to the Nazi general who offered him the opportunity to surrender: NUTS!
Posted by: Jim at July 21, 2006 11:38 AMNot to slight the intentions of these petitions but it's a stretch to call them "worthwhile". Petitions are easily stuffed with forged information; online versions ridiculously so. As for petitions in general -- who are they presented to, and do those people react in any meaningful way? Are those signatures given any weight whatsoever in Bush's, Olmert's, or the Lord High Chancellor Controller of the Plasma Cannon's minds?
They are tools used in assisting their signatories' feelings of "doing something", even if that something is actually nothing. Well, besides giving your personal information to democracyinaction.org.
Posted by: Pyrrho at July 21, 2006 07:46 PM
