Coulter’s anti-Semitic comment too dangerous to ignore |
Ann Coulter is buzzing from one talk show to another these days, peddling her new book. Our era values mindless contention as a kind of entertainment, and we don't just reward relentless self-promotio...
Posted by Jassie on Sat, 13 Oct 2007 09:54:00 PST |
senator craig arrested |
Sen. Larry Craig (R-ID) was arrested for lewd conduct at the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport for allegedly attempting to cruise an undercover cop in a public restroom. What do you think?Liza Boors,System...
Posted by Jassie on Sat, 08 Sep 2007 09:53:00 PST |
paris to the moon |
"Soccer was not meant to be enjoyed. It was meant to be experienced. The World Cup is a festival of fate: man accepting his hard circumstances, the near certainty of his failure. There is, after all, ...
Posted by Jassie on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 11:50:00 PST |
old school |
"Make no mistake, he said: a true piece of writing is a dangerous thing. It can change your life.""I sat where they left me. The window was closed but I could still hear shouts and laughter and faint...
Posted by Jassie on Wed, 08 Aug 2007 05:50:00 PST |
power and terror |
"The acts of terror that I actually described in Central America, the Middle East, South Africa, and so forth they don't count as terror. They do not enter into the annals of terror in the scholarly l...
Posted by Jassie on Tue, 10 Jul 2007 04:04:00 PST |
there are no children here |
"She rarely felt that she could sail through a day and enjoy such simple moments as the coming of spring or Pharoah's smile or Lafeyette's playful teasing. There was no time to reflect on the past or...
Posted by Jassie on Wed, 20 Jun 2007 06:50:00 PST |
ex libris |
"A few months ago, my husband and I decided to mix our books together. We had known each other for ten years, lived together for six, been married for five. Our mismatched coffee mugs cohabited amicab...
Posted by Jassie on Fri, 15 Jun 2007 01:02:00 PST |
library science degree: file that under stupid |
By: fourth-year molecular, cell and developmental biology UCLA student "Looking through the UCLA catalog trying to figure out a way to weasel out of my latest D-minus, I stumbled across a real jewel o...
Posted by Jassie on Thu, 14 Jun 2007 05:03:00 PST |
the red tent |
"After the applause died down, the sistrum player began to sing, accompanied by her own instrument and a single drum. It was a long song, with many refrains. The story was unremarkable: a tale of lo...
Posted by Jassie on Wed, 23 May 2007 10:11:00 PST |
eat, pray, love |
"You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."Elizabeth Gilbert
Posted by Jassie on Wed, 18 Apr 2007 04:11:00 PST |
