The feature interview this week is with Independent blog-based foriegn correspondent Michael J Totten, who describes how he can make a living wandering around the Middle East, writing whetever he feels like, and get you, the blog audience, to pay for it! He has a funny story about what happens when you try to make a joke and a heavily armed pro-Iranian militia fail to get it.
In the Full of Crap Report this week, Laurence Simon wonders if Domino’s Pizza founder Thomas Monaghan has gone all Joseph Smith on us by announcing the establishment of an all-Catholic township of “Ave Maria” in Florida.
And Meryl Yourish, in “On Second Thought” has thoughts on the antisemitic murder of French Jew Ilan Halimi, who knew about it and said nothing, and who kept trying to ignore its racist nature.
In Blog News, ever wished you could have your teacher fired? Well one student in Colorado has almost achieved every schoolkids lifelong ambition by secretly taping the geography teacher compare George Bush to Hitler! Hi-jinks ensue! Walkouts! Demonstrations! Suspensions! It’s a hands-on lesson in modern American politics and endless fun for young and old. Rocky Mountain bloggers Slapstick Politics are all over it. The teacher has hired the same ACLU lawyer that represented Ward Churchill. This one will run and run!
Egyptian blogger Big Pharaoh wants to stage a rally in solidarity with Denmark in the center of Cairo. He very sensibly requests one or two items before actually attempting it.
Jooos! Jooos up the chimney! Jooos hiding in the shrubbery! There are Jooos everywhere! Or so it seems. MEMRI and Little Green Footballs report on Iranian accusations that Tom and Jerry cartoons are in fact part of a sinister Zionist conspiracy. To do what? Um…I can’t tell you, it’s a conspiracy! Oh, and Meryl Yourish says we’ve now been reduced to stealing the Russians’ salt. I am not making this up.
I couldn’t.
Which major Western public figure this week said Muslims who want to live under sharia law should go elsewhere? You’ll never guess!
In the spirit of podcaster collegiality and welcoming a newcomer to our ranks, here’s a link to one of the wet-behind-the-ears new chums, a scrappy kid with stars in his eyes called Glenn Reynolds, interviewing Clair Berlinski, author of Menace in Europe: Why the Continent’s Crisis is America’s. Apparently he also has some sort of blog. Hmph, it seems everyone has a blog AND a podcast these days. I used to think I was unique, and now it’s like this big thing. I think I’ll put on my long leather coat and walk out into the night to find a handy rooftop to stand on and brood.
Are you a New Zealander? Well according to the government’s census form, you can’t be. Not unless you follow my brother Murray’s subversive advice . Remember – if we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system.
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