Quote of The Day
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"The WTC was not just an architectural monstrosity, but also terrible for people who didn't work there, for it said to all those people: 'If you can't work up here, boy, you're out of it.' That's why I'm sure that if those towers had been destroyed without loss of life, a lot of people would have cheered. Everything wrong with America led to the point where the country built that tower of Babel, which consequently had to be destroyed."
--Norman Mailer - The New Republic
Older is better. Rupert Murdoch, 70 and second wife Wendy, 33, new parents of a baby girl.
Language Adjustment: We pointed this out in yesterday's Short Cuts and the New York Post picks up today on the fact that it was Reuters who refused to use the word "terrorist." They said sweetly that one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighters. Now that those "freedom fighters" have savagely murdered two of their own, look for them to tell us that these were "rogue highwaymen" desperate for a laptop computer and a spiral notebook.
The Geraldo Watch: We are keeping up with Geraldo's War and note with his second dispatch he still hasn't made it into Afghanistan. Neither has he provided us with any news. Still babbling from the safe side of the Pakistan border on one of herky jerky cell phone cameras, he retold us last night that if he ever gets his hands on the big meanie Osama he's going to hit him and slap him and spit on his flip-flops. Stay tuned.
For Those About To Fly: Read Mark Morford's hilariously angry piece in the SF Chronicle if you are about to head out to grandma's by air. He misses the point that this legislation was more democrat than Republican but the part about the mess flying is going to be is bang-on.
The Times Finds One: The eastern elite media is so dedicated to the idea that the Anthrax Killer is some whack-job mountain man with a Quonset hut lab and a grudge, they actually went out and found one.
Further Proof....that Hillary is no New Yorker and never will be. Yesterday she called for a 50-mile evacuation of the city in case a nuclear plant is attacked. She's got to be joking. It takes an hour to get through the Lincoln tunnel now. If you are in a truck, plan on two.
The Sound of One Log Rolling: Don't ever say that sidelined Clintonista apologists don't help each other out. It's lonely work but someone's got to do it. Our fav, the deceptively gloomy Joe Conason, steps into the breach to puff his pal, Jeffrey Toobin's book about Election 2000. A book that is so dead we're told stores are returning more copies than were shipped. Conason's Observer column tells us that "Mr. Toobin takes his readers inside the back rooms, (where) it is the ruthless character of modern Republicanism that stands out." We will be ruthless about taking Joe's word for it.
Stop Us If You've Heard This: The reason 10,000 Taliban want to surrender is that they've learned that the 72 virgins they were promised is really one virgin who is 72.
Your Apologetic LComStaff
-- Anonymous, November 21, 2001