Saturday, September 11, 2004
I Bet He Can't Do That and Pat His Head at the Same Time
I am not a fan of James Lileks' political opinions. They're standard-issue wingnut nonsense, and they usually leave me fuming whenever I accidentally read them. (Our local Republican rag features him prominently on its editorial page.) But his website, the Institute of Official Cheer, is a riot, especially the Gallery of Regrettable Food. During the 50s and 60s, food fashion involved dressing up the most pedestrian fare by cooking it with or serving it with other food items seemingly plucked at random from store shelves. This resulted in some appalling combinations, such as corned beef salad loaf, made with Jell-O. Don't click the Gallery on an empty stomach, but do click it, if only for the snarky wonders of Lileks' prose. No matter who you are, the phrase "sundered bunny" is funny.
Speaking of appalling, how could any voter be dumb enough to still be having trouble deciding between Bush and Kerry? Mark Morford maintains that these voters, and the polls that chart their nonsensical swings back and forth, are better off ignored.
If you want to read just one meditation on 9/11 three years later, you could do worse than the one at Political Animal. Kevin Drum quotes extensively from a longer Juan Cole analysis of the war on terror and then offers his own perspective: "[T]he bottom line is pretty simple: if we stay in Iraq and fight a long, grinding, unwinnable guerrilla war against Islamic militants, bin Laden is delighted. If we give up and leave Iraq, bin Laden is delighted." Nice work, George.
And speaking of 9/11, Atrios asks the question for all of us: WTF? Perhaps the way to a man's heart really is through his stomach.
I am not a fan of James Lileks' political opinions. They're standard-issue wingnut nonsense, and they usually leave me fuming whenever I accidentally read them. (Our local Republican rag features him prominently on its editorial page.) But his website, the Institute of Official Cheer, is a riot, especially the Gallery of Regrettable Food. During the 50s and 60s, food fashion involved dressing up the most pedestrian fare by cooking it with or serving it with other food items seemingly plucked at random from store shelves. This resulted in some appalling combinations, such as corned beef salad loaf, made with Jell-O. Don't click the Gallery on an empty stomach, but do click it, if only for the snarky wonders of Lileks' prose. No matter who you are, the phrase "sundered bunny" is funny.
Speaking of appalling, how could any voter be dumb enough to still be having trouble deciding between Bush and Kerry? Mark Morford maintains that these voters, and the polls that chart their nonsensical swings back and forth, are better off ignored.
If you want to read just one meditation on 9/11 three years later, you could do worse than the one at Political Animal. Kevin Drum quotes extensively from a longer Juan Cole analysis of the war on terror and then offers his own perspective: "[T]he bottom line is pretty simple: if we stay in Iraq and fight a long, grinding, unwinnable guerrilla war against Islamic militants, bin Laden is delighted. If we give up and leave Iraq, bin Laden is delighted." Nice work, George.
And speaking of 9/11, Atrios asks the question for all of us: WTF? Perhaps the way to a man's heart really is through his stomach.
