Thursday, April 01, 2004

Jesse Jackson Memorial Race Baiting Quote of the Week:

"Are you arresting me because I'm black?"

-Justice Donna Mills, of New York, who was driving so drunk that she rammed into two cars and was unable to get out of her own vehicle. Both arresting officers were black.

Wednesday, March 31, 2004

Taufling.... still pending

Julie is now four days past the due date and still we sit. The car seat has been installed in her new grocery wagon. An open suitcase sits all-but-the-shampoo-packed by my apartment door. Taufling, meanwhile, seems merely intent upon shoving his/her ass up into Julie's ribs.

My brother-in-law, with much swearing, has become the King of Assemblage. He's unboxed and put together everything Taufling could possibly need for survival until puberty, including--and I didn't even know these existed until about a month ago--this slingback chair type of thing that plays music and shakes Taufling around when s/he colicky. I'd get one of those for myself, actually, had God not already invented one and called it a "dryer."

My mother had a stern grandmotherly talk with Taufling yesterday when she met Julie for lunch. "It's up to you now," she told Taufling. "Everything's ready."

The crib even has even been spread with sheets; we just need a baby to put in it. Foaling is hell. I don't know how horses go through this for ELEVEN MONTHS.

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Tuesday, March 30, 2004

(Knute Rockne Voice) "We got 'em on the run, boys!"

We got 'em on the run, and we're gonna keep 'em on the run! And we're gonna go, go, go, go, go, and we're not gonna stop until we get across that goal line.....

Ahhhhhhhhhhh. It's so nice to be right. So very, very nice.

Twice in a ROW, now, I'm actually LINKING to something, so you know this has to be hugely satisfying. Behold, word on the two targets after the World Trade Center and Pentagon. I draw your attention in particular to the following:

"Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, al Qaeda's purported operations chief, has told U.S. interrogators that the group had been planning attacks on the Library Tower in Los Angeles and the Sears Tower in Chicago on the heels of the September 11, 2001, terror strikes.

"Those plans were aborted mainly because of the decisive U.S. response to the New York and Washington attacks, which disrupted the terrorist organization's plans so thoroughly that it could not proceed, according to transcripts of his conversations with interrogators.

"'Osama had said the second wave should focus on the West Coast,' he reportedly said.

"But the terrorists seem to have been surprised by the strength of the American reaction to the September 11 attacks.

"Afterwards, we never got time to catch our breath, we were immediately on the run," Mohammed is quoted as saying.


To everyone who has agitated against the war on terror: AHEM.

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