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Monthly Archives August 2004

Lobbyist Girl

Lobbyist Girl [.m4a], courtesy of Brendan Hines.

 
Posted 31 August 2004 § Ephemera ‡ Comments (0) °

Meanest Photo Editor Ever

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Posted 23 August 2004 § Ephemera ‡ Comments (0) °

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/)
     
Posted 13 August 2004 § Ephemera ‡ Comments (0) °

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.

 
Posted 07 August 2004 § War ‡ Comments (0) °