August 31, 2004
August 23, 2004
August 13, 2004
NJ Euphemisms for The Gay
In no particular order:- don't pump your own gas
- a Cape Mary
- a Real Soprano
- a Johnny Sack (if more than one sopranos reference is permitted...)
- a Paulie Walnuts (if more than two is...)
- a Bon-Bon Jovi
- a Molly Pitcher
- a Newark Bear
(contrast with http://www.amibearornot.com/) (not worksafe) - Riding the Light Rail to Bayonne
- On Permanent Shore Leave
- A Hohokus Homo
- Jughandler (for the lesbians)
- the outskirts of Metuchen
- a resident of Succasunna
- Wrong way up the turnpike
- a Fountain of Wayne
- Nutley Freeholder
August 07, 2004
US Betrays Undercover Spy, again.
In an effort to justify last week's orange alert, the United States apparently blew the cover of an Al-Qaida turncoat.
Muhammad Naeem Noor Khan had been captured, but was still allowed to email with his contacts. This allowed the authorities a rare peek inside the organization. That all came to a grinding halt when the United States publicized Khan's arrest last Monday. With Khan's cover blown, Britain and Pakistan were forced to prematurely arrest a dozen terrorists before they could be fully exploited as intelligence sources.
Britain and Pakistan are furious. We should be, too. The Administration blew Khan's cover to advance a short-sighted political goal: they were, after all, desperate to show real progress against Al-Qaida.
We have a word for this, by the way: compromising state secrets for personal gain is called treason.
