Some thoughts about the Kim Mulkey story
2 weeks ago
24 May 2005
capnwacky.com | Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes
This is the first site I've posted to both my regular blogs. The "Stop It" in this case is purely dramatic, because I adore being amused by some of these people and comments. Keep going until you see the very worst costume at the end. capnwacky.com | Unfortunate Star Wars Costumes
20 May 2005
Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Why Islam is disrespected
I have to say, uh, "Ditto." Just Stop It, Muslim World! In Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Opinion / Op-ed / Why Islam is disrespected, Jeff Jacoby wrote: "Then there was Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who announced at a Senate hearing that she had a message for 'Muslims in America and throughout the world.' And what was that message? That decent people do not resort to murder just because someone has offended their religious sensibilities? That the primitive bloodlust raging in Afghanistan and Pakistan was evidence of the Muslim world's dysfunctional political culture?
No: Her message was that 'disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States.'
Granted, Rice spoke while the rioting was still taking place and her goal was to reduce the anti-American fever. But what 'Muslims in America and throughout the world' most need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an 'insurgency' in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to 'martyrdom.'
But what disgraces Islam above all is the vast majority of the planet's Muslims saying nothing and doing nothing about the jihadist cancer eating away at their religion. It is Free Muslims Against Terrorism, a pro-democracy organization, calling on Muslims and Middle Easterners to 'converge on our nation's capital for a rally against terrorism' -- and having only 50 people show up.
Yes, Islam is disrespected. That will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a defiled Koran can't get the time of day." [emphasis mine]
Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com.
No: Her message was that 'disrespect for the Holy Koran is not now, nor has it ever been, nor will it ever be, tolerated by the United States.'
Granted, Rice spoke while the rioting was still taking place and her goal was to reduce the anti-American fever. But what 'Muslims in America and throughout the world' most need to hear is not pandering sweet-talk. What they need is a blunt reminder that the real desecration of Islam is not what some interrogator in Guantanamo might have done to the Koran. It is what totalitarian Muslim zealots have been doing to innocent human beings in the name of Islam. It is 9/11 and Beslan and Bali and Daniel Pearl and the USS Cole. It is trains in Madrid and schoolbuses in Israel and an 'insurgency' in Iraq that slaughters Muslims as they pray and vote and line up for work. It is Hamas and Al Qaeda and sermons filled with infidel-hatred and exhortations to 'martyrdom.'
But what disgraces Islam above all is the vast majority of the planet's Muslims saying nothing and doing nothing about the jihadist cancer eating away at their religion. It is Free Muslims Against Terrorism, a pro-democracy organization, calling on Muslims and Middle Easterners to 'converge on our nation's capital for a rally against terrorism' -- and having only 50 people show up.
Yes, Islam is disrespected. That will only change when throngs of passionate Muslims show up for rallies against terrorism, and when rabble-rousers trying to gin up a riot over a defiled Koran can't get the time of day." [emphasis mine]
Jeff Jacoby's e-mail address is jacoby@globe.com.
16 May 2005
Methamphetamine Use at Work Slows
Not only is this hed stupid, it's inaccurate, as the use of meth hasn't slowed, the growth of meth use slowed. Shame on the Post. Methamphetamine Use at Work Slows: "Methamphetamine Use at Work Slows"
12 May 2005
News Story - Verizon Online
News Story - Verizon Online: "The 3-foot-high cardboard box was discovered by a granite bench outside the John C. Kluczynski federal building " Clever bench.
11 May 2005
US News Headlines - Verizon Online
US News Headlines - Verizon Online: "Longtime St. Louis Library Clerk Dies at 88, Then Leaves Behind Gift of $350,000 to Buy Books " Again. The AP has cornered the life after death story.
News Story - Verizon Online
News Story - Verizon Online: "ALEXANDRIA, Va. - Four members of a notorious street gang killed a pregnant teenage gang member because she later became a federal informant, a prosecutor said Monday." Um, later? After she was killed? C'mon, AP!
10 May 2005
News Story - Verizon Online
News Story - Verizon Online: Another from the AP: "'It's just really quiet here,' said David Merriman, whose parents live about a mile from the McGowans. 'A lot could happen right next store and you wouldn't even know it.' "
05 May 2005
The New York Times > Week in Review > Episode VII: Revenge of the Writers
Do not let writers talk. Another example, this one from a British SF author, Richard K. Morgan. The New York Times > Week in Review > Episode VII: Revenge of the Writers: "'We're starting to look inward, rather than outward,' Mr. Morgan said. 'There are exciting and scary things going to be happening in our bodies.'"
02 May 2005
Society's Toxins, Caught on Tape
William Raspberry's column on that handcuffed 5-year-old in Florida contains an interesting reference I want to write about a little later today, if I can find the time between working on my novel, making earrings, and taking the backup child out to buy Nationals' hats this afternoon. Meanwhile, here's the paragraph that annoys me:
Society's Toxins, Caught on Tape: "My guess is that if a child bore scars of physical abuse, we'd move to intervene. But psychic wounds leave scars, too. Is there no way for the community to intervene to minimize them? Can't we provide counseling -- private counseling, not counseling that would be seen as serving the schools systems' interest -- for parent and child? Can't we look at ourselves (as so few of us did during my own childhood) and ask what godawful messages we are sending to kids whose parents are too poor, whose hair too nappy, skin too black, families too disreputable to warrant much respect from teachers -- or protection from the rest of us?"
Society's Toxins, Caught on Tape: "My guess is that if a child bore scars of physical abuse, we'd move to intervene. But psychic wounds leave scars, too. Is there no way for the community to intervene to minimize them? Can't we provide counseling -- private counseling, not counseling that would be seen as serving the schools systems' interest -- for parent and child? Can't we look at ourselves (as so few of us did during my own childhood) and ask what godawful messages we are sending to kids whose parents are too poor, whose hair too nappy, skin too black, families too disreputable to warrant much respect from teachers -- or protection from the rest of us?"
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