Insert a Trite Metaphor for a Corral #45

Posted on February 5, 2007 in Roundup

Everyone except I is excited by the arrest of movieland has-been Ryan O’Neil. Meanwhile the Bush Administration continues to beg money from Congress and make plans for the invasion of Iran. The Colts won the Super Bowl. And I have returned from my short short vacation.

• Twenty foreigners were sentenced to whippings and several months in prison for attending a party where alcohol was served and men danced with women by a Saudi Arabian court. This is one of our allies.
• Saddam went out in style, says Diane Christian, and cost Bush credibility. “Saddam’s dying well strikes to the deeper issue of acts and ends and agency. The President who relentlessly became ‘a war president’ embraced killing and destruction as a solution to ‘evil.’ His nemesis, Saddam Hussein, embraced killing and destruction for political power. What ends justify what means?”
• Some years ago, I met Haitian political exile President Jean Bertrand Aristide and found him a kind, intelligent man. Imagine my surprise when news stories came out that described this Catholic priest as the leader of a network of street gangs who terrorized those who did not agree with his rule. Now it seems that Aristide was framed by the same people who brought us the war in Iraq. And Haiti, poor Haiti, is the worse for it.
• Members of a Los Angeles Pentecostal church danced in the spray of a fire hose as part of a baptism. Pastor Wilbert Swaringer said that During the civil rights era, hoses were used “to fight people.” But now, he said, “we are using the hose for healing.”
• The Indian government is asking Google to blur some of its satellite photographs of sensitive areas such as airports, military bases, and government buildings.
• AHnold’s director of communications enjoys the thankless job of keeping his owner’s big mouth from ruining his agenda. For some samples, click here.
• The long-running battle between the Beatles and Stephen Jobs over the name Apple is over after the Beatles lost a court decision.
• Sad people like to eat comfort food more than happy ones, but if they have access to nutrition information, they tend to curb their gluttony. Happy people on the other hand will keep gnawing even when such information is available.
• How quickly does water have to rise to your neck before you panic?

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