Archive for the 'Hitchens' Category

God Knows How I Missed This

Monday, January 22nd, 2007

MBF’s first nominee for Christopher Hitchens’ Line Of The Year:
During the war in Kosovo, I shared a flagon of slivovitz with an especially triumphalist Kosovar Albanian who exulted at what he was seeing. Decades of being pushed around and ground down by the Serbian supremacists and then, suddenly, “Guess what? We get to f— the […]

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The Morning After

Friday, August 11th, 2006

And so it begins. The best part about a foiled terrorist attack is that we can skip all the touching tributes and grief-y bullshit and move right into identifying the culprits and insinuating they fuck animals.
We have the list of names. We have how an idea of how they got busted. We have ludicrous columns […]

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Three Stars of the Newscycle: 6.29.06

Thursday, June 29th, 2006

Geeks rule the world. The number one movie on the planet is soon to be Superman and Israel and Hamas are about to destroy each other over this (see: right) heavy-handed bra fumbler. Seriously, this is an example of why a non-volunteer army is a horrible idea. Do you remember the kid who memorized all […]

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Al Zarqawi and Terrorism in the Digital Age

Friday, June 23rd, 2006

The cherub-cheeked apple bottoms at The Nation have a story online (spoiler alert) calling the Bush administration on the carpet for the war. Specifically, the charge is made that newly dead Abu Musab Al Zarqawi wasn’t initially as dangerous as he was made out to be and was (spoiler alert) allowed to flourish so as […]

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