Thanks to CNN, I will no longer be taking walks around my neighborhood.
Hmmm, come to think of it, one of the people down the street does keep bees. That’s suspicious . . . they could be used in a terrorist plot.
Look out: Bees on a plane!!
Dear TV News
Great job in your effort to be the first to air unsubstantiated (and ultimately untrue) rumors when that old lady went nuts on a flight yesterday. With the threat of terrorism as far removed from the national consciousness as it is these days, I’m particularly glad that you went against convention and mixed an al Qaeda angle to the story. Lately you’ve neglected your responsibility to remind Americans that someone is about to kill us all.
I also think it’s good that authorities may have finally captured JonBenet Ramsey’s killer. And that’s all I want to know about that.
What I Learned Yesterday From The Radio
Just another day for advanced “conservative” studies:
That pretty much sums it up in a nutshell. Ceasefire leads to more war. Ceasefires lead to increased wars, increased intensity.
Ceasefires lead to more death.
Up is down. Black is white. Wikiality is great, isn’t it?
Blount County Silent Ride
TIME.com: 50 Coolest Websites
TIME has compiled a list of the “50 Coolest Websites.”
Although I spend a fair amount of time on the Internet, lists like this always seem to direct me toward undiscovered territory.
Fighting Them Over There
It’s a pretty ironic coda to the wingnut flypaper theory — under which we were supposed to “take the fight” to the terrorists in Iraq (and Afghanistan and Lebanon and, in time, Iran) so that we wouldn’t have to fight them in the streets of New York and London:
Appearing on “Fox News Sunday,” Fran Townsend, the president’s homeland security adviser, said that the war in Iraq attracts terrorists “where we have a fighting military and a coalition that can take them on and not have the sort of civilian casualties that you saw in London.”
Either there are more than enough flies to go around or the flypaper has moved — or both. In his post, Juan Cole cited recent poll results showing that 13% of all British Muslims surveyed think last year’s London bombers are religious martyrs, while another 16% think their ends were justified even if their means weren’t. That’s almost 30% — of a population of 1.6 million.
Looking back on real and supposed terrorist attacks against the west, one begins to wonder whether we would have done just as well to invade England or Pakistan as Iraq, since the former seem to be where the terrorists are hanging out these days.