“Do not confuse the sound of celebratory fireworks for bursts of gunfire.” Muammar Qaddafi chartered a tour of Tripoli for foreign reporters, but it didn’t turn out like he hoped. Witnesses told how mercenaries have labored to hide the dead and wounded, and other loyalist workers were apparently slow to paint over graffiti calling the daffy ol’ colonel a “bloodsucker.”
Here’s the latest on the other protests/uprisings/revolts, etc. Did you know the Egyptian military now has its own Facebook page?
Anyone who nerds out over Risk already knows this, but Defense Secretary Robert Gates made sure to share with a bunch of West Point cadets: The next adviser who tells an American president to start a land war in Asia ought to “have his head examined.”
Looks like two more weeks of life support for a federal government facing shutdown, after a small break in the big-dingus contest between Republicans and Democrats over spending cuts.
After learning that Julian Assange had been invited to the same vague, business-themed conference in Denver (although he obviously can’t attend), George W. Bush decided (his, after all, a decider) he ought to cancel his own appearance there. Someone make a joke about this for me. Thanks.
Let’s have a discussion! Slate, citing something confusing like “science,” posits that men who refuse to grow up and get their shit together have little incentive to do so. Because? Smart, with-it women continue to have sex with those aimless slackers whenever they demand/ask for it. Yea? Or nay?
Three decades ago, Ray Towler—the only black man witnesses say they saw in the park that spring day—was sent to prison for raping a young girl. Except he didn’t do it. Finally, after years of patiently insisting on his innocence, he’s home. And it’s a very different place.
Another snowpocalypse denied: The San Francisco Bay Area waited for its first juicy snowfall in 35 years, but only the highest hills in the city got a faint dusting.
In other weather news, it’s clearly a cold day in hell (actually Portland), because, as the O is also reporting, Tonya Harding is now a mom.
Finally, David Wu isn’t going to resign any time soon. He denies having a substance abuse problem and won’t say what condition he was recently treated for. But he did acknowledge not knowing what kind of pills a donor handed him—pills he then put into his body anyway.
I guess George W. Bush took the tagline on the invite, “hide your daughters, Julian Assange is coming to town,” a bit literally?
Goddammit women! Quit having sex with these young slacker guys… then they’ll have a reason to shape up and do something with their lives! Start having sex with somewhat older, gainfully-employed married men instead! My number is (503)
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Another important geopolitical lesson one can learn by playing Risk is that there will always be endless, bloody, intractable conflict in Iceland.
HELLOOO!!!
SLACKERS TODAY ARE THE CEO`S OF THE 90`S. WE MAY BE PORTRAYED BADLY IN THE MEDIA, AN ISSUE I WILL ADDRESS ON LATER, BUT IT`S BECUZ WE NEVER WANTED TO CONFORM TO COUGARS TOWN DRESS CODE. WE ALL KNOW SLACKERS MUTATED LONG AGO AND SEX IN THE CITY AND IT`S HOMOLOGUE’S DIDN`T. (APPLAUSES)
SLACKERS ARE LIKE HIDDEN GOODIES. I NEED 3 LADIES TO BACK ME UP IN MY HYPOTHESIS. OR TO TALK ABOUT CHARLIE SHEEN DAY.
Re: Wu: What good are donors if they can’t donate a couple of pills now and then? And, c’mon, not knowing what the pills are is half the fun!
Re: Gates: If they played more RISK at the Pentagon they’d know that we just need to invade Australia and then build up our forces there while the rest of the world wears themselves out. Plus the locals almost speak English!
YOU`RE RIGHT TODD, AND BESIDES THE INDIGENOUS PEOPLE OF DOWN UNDER, MOST OF THEM ALREADY HAVE CRIMINAL RECORDS IN THEIR FAMILIES, SO IT WONT BE AS HARD.
The Slate take on young people and sex is really just an inversion on the ol’ “So what if he’s rich? He’s ugly!” Now it’s: “So what if he’s hot? He’s poor!” Women, how dare you get physical with people you’re physically attracted to. Gross.
Takeaways: 1.) No matter who women do, they should feel guilty about who they’re fucking. 2.) Women must see Portland as a sexual mecca. 3.) I should quit my job.
Woooooooooooo!
If I had to stop and identify pills before taking them every time someone gave me pills, I would probably end up taking less pills. And then who wins? The terrorists?
So Robert Gates revealed that the only thing anyone had to know to avoid much of the geopolitical travail of the 2000’s (which we still suffer from) is a line from The Princess Bride?
Too soon old, too late smart.
THATS WHY WE ARE SO RICH IN EXPERIENCE!!! @SJK 😛