Archive for October, 2004

Blame the Band

First, we had a wardrobe malfunction. Now another singer has “exposed herself”, this time thanks to a computer malfunction. Ashlee Simpson’s “extra help” may have been exposed when a “Saturday Night Live” audience heard her voice — singing the wrong song — while she held a microphone at her waist. —- Simpson had performed her hit [...]

Rage Against the Machine

Welcome to Iran – where road rage means damaging your own car.  An incensed Iranian motorist doused his car in petrol and set it ablaze with a match after picking up a parking ticket, media reported Wednesday.   The ISNA student news agency posted photographs of the charred shell of the car on its Web [...]

Off to Europe

I’m off to Europe for a week on business. Blogging to continue if I have the time and the opportunities.

Subtle Message

If I was to ever visit the UN headquarters in New York, and happened to be carrying a couple of spare pumpkins and some clothing…     (Photo courtesy of AP)

Seeing the True Picture

Terrorfat tries his hand at 3D pictures (AFP) :   “So you are telling me that if I stare at this image for long enough, I will be able to see something else beyond it? (mental note: don’t let anyone stare at me for too long)

Return of the Killer Tonge

Do you remember Jenny Tonge, the British MP who stated that she would consider becoming a suicide bomber if she were a PLO Arab? Well, she is up to her old antics again, this time doing her darndest to support the terrorists against the “occupation”..in Iraq (hat tip: Serenade). The stop the War Coalition was accused [...]

Death of a Ghoul

The IDF has removed another despicable terrorist from the gene pool: the appropriately named Adnan Al-Ghoul Ghoul   n. 1. One who delights in the revolting, morbid, or loathsome. 2. A grave robber. 3. An evil spirit or demon in Muslim folklore believed to plunder graves and feed on corpses I doubt anyone will be feeding [...]

Media Bias at its Worst

There is unfortunately no shortage of media bias against Israel, and trying to point out every example is an almost impossible task (although I must commend the likes of Honest Reporting, and its weblog Backspin, for their tireless efforts). However, I do want to highlight a particularly insidious example of media bias, emanating from Richard Carleton [...]

Duke University Editorial: The Aftermath

I just sent this response to Philip Kurian. Mr Kurian,   Please do not mistake my candor and civility with a lack of underlying intense emotion regarding your editorial. As I have already mentioned, it is one of the most anti-Semitic things I have ever read. Or, more specifically, it reads as a compilation of [...]

Kurian Responds

Philip Kurian responds to my email regarding his anti-Semitic editorial: Dear David, I appreciate your candor and willingness to consider my perspective, however naive and uninformed. I want to assure you that I harbor no hatred towards the Jewish people, and the intentions in my writing were not insidious. My main contention is that SOME Jews worked [...]