Category: long story short

  • The Poor Man speaks verily

    Thanks to Textism, I’m now hooked on the political pontifications of The Poor Man: In revenge, I am hereby starting a movement to counter Front Page founder David Horowitz’s “Take Back Our Campuses” movement. Please donate to my project to start departments of, oh, I don’t know, Queer Islamic Post-Modern Environmentalism or something, in all…

  • Shame on all of us.

    Hear Bush the younger follow in his fathers tonguesteps with his version of “Fool Me Once.”

  • Letter to Lileks of One Year Ago

    In The Bleat James Lileks tells his younger self how the next year will go: (Get this: the president will be quoted, second hand, as not “giving a shit what the Europeans think.” It’s come to that.) We realize we’re going to have to go it alone – and in most respects this feels right.…

  • Freeman Ng, of Progressive Schoolhouse

    Freeman Ng, of Progressive Schoolhouse writes: Shortly after Bush’s big address to congress last year a week and a half after 9/11, I did this “rewrite” of his speech. My intent was to show a completely different way we might have responded to the attacks on us, a completely different way that our nation might…

  • ‘Wilding’ Convictions Tainted by Confession

    After all these years, a DNA test has confirmed a confession to the Central Park jogger rape that resulted in the addition of “wilding” to the urban lexicon and it appears the unjust conviction of five or six young suspects. This is being discussed at both Uppity-Negro and Metafilter. Says Aaron of U-N: Oh well,…

  • iBush 1.1 Released

    iBush: Artificially unintelligent Oval Office Occupant simulator What’s new in this version: even more eloquent ReadMe explains aim and meaning of the program now talks about gun control, too Latest User Reviews: Hiram – Sep 8, 2002 (freeLunch.apps CEO speaking:) I just discovered that iBush was silently removed from the MacUpdate website. They continue to…