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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
October 16, 2006
On The Internets
1. The greatest story ever about the way America's elite live and destroy.
2. Coincidentally or not, some truly interesting thoughts of Sara Robinson at Orcinus about the rise and fall of America's culture of planning...and the incipient consequences of the fall part.
3. Greg Saunders counted up the number of times Bush said "you know" at his last press conference. Answer: thirty-two.
4. William Langewiesche on getting used to a nuclear North Korea.
5. George Soros' recent article about the self-defeating war on terrorism.
Posted at October 16, 2006 12:19 PM | TrackBackWe always knew dim son was no true Texan. We just didn't know he was a valley girl. Hehehe.
Posted by: SPIIDERWEB™ at October 16, 2006 04:54 PM32 "you knows" in one appearance?! First reaction: I'm guessing Clinton didn't use 32 "you knows" in his entire first term.
Second reaction: time to make lemonade out of our lemon of a President. I've been trying in vain to get my 12 year old son to stop using "like" between, like, every noun. Now I can tell him: stop it, or you'll sound like George W. Bush when you grow up.
Posted by: Whistler Blue at October 16, 2006 05:29 PMI believe Rhodes scolars rarely have to resort to "you knows" and "like" and such.
I on the other hand need to like ya know use them like all the ya know time.
Some commas. ,,,,,,, Please insert as needed as you read my comment.
Posted by: SPIIDERWEB™ at October 16, 2006 11:20 PMWell you know there is no doubt that the acquisition of atomic weapons by America is the worst development yet in the ongoing story of nuclear proliferation by upstart states. The regime in America is arguably the spookiest in the world today  bellicose, repressive, unstable and so mentally isolated that it sometimes appears to be outright insane. A nuclear America is definitely a dangerous place; it increases the chances in Asia for all sorts of trouble and threatens to kick off a regional arms race. This needs to be acknowledged.
Nonetheless, what's done is done, and though we may protest and bluster, there is very little the world can do to stop it from proceeding. Rather than making a show of our weakness, we would do well to calm down. After all, this was not unexpected; the fact is, the spread of nuclear weapons is, and always has been, inevitable.
