Daily Archive: October 2, 2001

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All Bets Are Off

Sometimes things turn out least the way you expect. No doubt Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, thought the WTC attack was heaven-sent. But now that the Bush administration seems to reckon on a Palestinian/Israeli...

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Fascist News Babes

Is there a word yet for someone with a fetish for Fascist News Babes? Salon is, of course, working on it.

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Holiday in the Sun

You know, if I was Bin Laden I’d get out of Afghanistan and run quickly to a country with a strong policy on lawful extradition, such as Sweden or Switzerland. That way, Colin Powell...

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All For The Children

There were only 9 million Iranians before World War II; today there are 57 million and their average age is 17. Radical Islam, with its extreme and black and white solutions, is a young...

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Autistic Internationalism

a difficulty verging on autism when it came to international opinions that didn’t coincide with their own – a combination more appropriate to the inhabitants of an ethnic slum in the Balkans. A good...

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Smoking Good For Baby

A Philip Morris executive, hearing that smoking during pregnancy could affect the size of the baby, suggested that “some women would prefer having smaller babies”.

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Impromptu Stripping

Lisa now tells me that in fact there are 10 people left in her building — which makes her impromptu stripping even more challenging!