Monday Moaning: Here's some editorializing that will get your engine started. The New York Times (where else?) sees creeping menace in patriotism, equating it with censorship. Sign up here to join an Ldot delegation to march to the Times and explain the meaning of "censorship" to the worthies on the editorial page. It will take patience, a loud voice and words of one syllable.

Tape To Take To The Times: The Sunday New York Daily News had this chilling tick-tock of the disaster using incoming and increasingly frantic calls to the NYPD to paint a picture of the horror of September 11. May we suggest playing it in a continuous loop on the Times' public address system every time they go all warm and fuzzy about Bill Maher and others who think America stinks.

Just Asking: This curious story of the American girls imprisoned and on trial in Afghanistan for "preaching Christianity" gets stranger and unexplained. Their situation begs the question, "What were you thinking???" and where are the grown-ups who sanctioned such a dangerous and naive scheme?

Taliban Shell Game: Talibanistas say they've got bin Laden in a secret place and want to know "can we talk." Guess their turbans are too tightly wrapped to hear our position which is, in a word. No. Here the Washington Times gives a run down of who said what on the Sunday shows. We find it interesting that, according to the New York Times, bin Laden, 3 wives, 15 children and dozens of body guards move from cave to cave in several Land Rovers. Sounds about as hard to spot as the Macy's Day Parade.

News From the Ether World: Just to show we aren't completely obsessed with war, here's news that J.Lo got married to a dancer this weekend. Do we care? Does anyone care? Don't even click on this one.

Lede of the Day: The award goes to Steve Dunleavy for the following: "We're seeing a rebirth of the whining peaceniks who are so dumb that they think a terminal illness is being sick at an airport." The rest of this morning's column in the NYPost is in the same vein as Steve places a polished Gucci loafer squarely up the behinds of these silly children - no matter what their age. Maybe they should spend some time with a few fatherless kids of NY firefighters to sort out their thinking.

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-- Anonymous, October 01, 2001