Monday, July 5, 2004

Only, on pedestrians

Thought for the day: Spamming is like public urination.

Modesty with cause

Britt Blaser: That is why combat veterans don't talk much about their experiences.

"A leg up" headlines would have resulted

Stuart Hughes: What would happen, I wondered, if I removed my artificial leg, waved it in front of Bush and Blair, and proclaimed "See this. This is the outcome of your war. Iraq may have been liberated, but I -- and hundreds of others like me -- will be burdened with this artificial limb every day for the rest of my life because of the conflict you created."

Otherwise he thought it sucked

Stephen Berlin Johnson: The last third of Fahrenheit 9/11 gives us more immediate access to the carnage and brutality of the Iraq war than all the coverage on the networks combined since the war started.

Bonus link: Paul Krugman: Mr. Moore may not be considered respectable, but his film is a hit because the respectable media haven't been doing their job.

See? N wrongs make 1 right.

The revolution will not be televised

Tim Oren: The biggest loser in attention has been broadcast television.

But crunchy on the inside

Jim Thompson: The people of Spokane have inbred themselves into a kind of grey goo.

Until they blew up the pier

The fireworks looked nice from our hillside home overlooking Santa Barbara.