Monthly Archives: January 2007

Start Your iPods

Special Tuesday edition!

Because yesterday was a holiday, the week starts today, with:

  1. The Cure - It's Not You
  2. The Wrens - Thirteen Grand
  3. Robyn Hitchcock - Filthy Bird. "A happy bird is a filthy bird"
  4. Smashing Pumpkins - Mayonaise [sic].
  5. Sea And Cake - I Missed The Chance
  6. Pavement - Best Friend's Arm (live, from the Wowee Zowee reissue which I just got this weekend at one of my favorite record stores anywhere: Newbury Comics at Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA.)
  7. G55 - Untitled
  8. Gillian Welch - Orphan Girl
  9. Pueblo Nuevo - Buena Vista Social Club
  10. Kings Of Convenience - Misread

Huzzah!

Camps!

This cold-blooded idiot thinks dim-bulb Bush just isn't thinking Big enough. Bush is only asking for a mere 21,000 new troops in Iraq, but according to Cap'n Concentration, we'd need at least 180,000 more troops to implement a proven solution to the Iraqi Problem: the imprisoning of all the women and children in concentration camps ! Therefore, Bush isn't serious.

Blame America First

Dinesh D'Souza has written another book. Of course, as always, it's about the evil American Left. But this time, it's called The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11. Hmmm...

    From Publishers Weekly
    Conservative pundit D'Souza (Illiberal Education) roots the blame for the 9/11 attacks in the left wing's "aggressive global campaign to undermine the traditional patriarchal family" in this mostly lucid but unconvincing argument. Pointing to Hillary Clinton, Britney Spears and Noam Chomsky, he decries those who have teamed up with Hollywood and the U.N. to foist an irreligious, sexually licentious, antifamily liberal culture—epitomized by Eve Ensler's play The Vagina Monologues and gay marriage initiatives—on a Muslim world that rightly reviles it. By deliberately attacking Islamic values, the left tacitly allies itself with al- Qaeda in its effort to defeat Bush's war on terror and thus discredit conservatism at home, he asserts. But D'Souza's claim that Islamic extremists are inflamed solely by America's music videos and feminists—not its U.S. bases in Saudi Arabia, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict or American support for Muslim dictators—is too single-minded. For example, he paints Abu Ghraib poster-girl Lynndie England as the personification of liberal sexual depravity, without acknowledging that the U.S. Army sent her to Iraq, not the left. Charging that liberals aid terrorists while sympathizing with the terrorists' culturally conservative worldview, D'Souza's critique of American cultural excess trips over its own inconsistencies.

In other words: Dinesh D'Souza thinks the terrorists were right.