In music she found her dream, her love, her Russian stalker

FROM RUSSIA WITH FUR: An unidentified Russian oligarch has just given two $9,000 furs to Mariah Carey - a Saga mink and another coat - but the songstress happens to be an animal-rights fan. So she immediately sent them to People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals' New York office. "Christmas came early," said PETA's Dawn Carr, noting that the group will use the coats in grisly presentations to high school students around the country on how animals are cruelly trapped in the wild or strangled and electrocuted on fur farms just for a frivolous fashion item.

you've made it, China !

"Going forward"? "Plan to Win?" Did the Pentagon secretly buy out McDonald's, or is it just inconceivable to use anything but martial rhetoric in this Time of War? Link.

“Drive-Thru is an integral part of McDonald’s Plan to Win in China and we are well positioned to expand our Drive-Thru locations in major cities across the country, such as Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen," said Mr. Jeff Schwartz, CEO of McDonald’s China. "We want to ensure that as the lifestyles of today’s Chinese consumers become more demanding, McDonald’s is ready to provide a convenient, efficient and quality solution to satisfy the needs of their fast paced lives.”

Going forward, Chinese customers will be able to drive their cars to the McDonald’s Drive-Thru restaurant and enjoy the same great tasting, quality food they love, without leaving the comfort and convenience of their car.

doting on home-grown hooligans

Over the water, somebody's tossing around unsubstantiated bunk about fusillades of snowballs with batteries, bad cockney accents, and lovable fans of both US football and ... what the rest of the world calls that other sport. As an occasional US football observer, I think he's nuts. Maybe I just see the AFC patsies, though. But don't go trying to reason with him. He's pretty mad:

Meantime, I think it's time for the pot to shut the fuck up.

onward, ye imperialists

There's only so many speech writers floating around D.C., right? They have to share.

November 30, 2005

Dear [Meshugah],

It is time for the President to stop serving up platitudes and present us with a plan for finishing this war with success and honor - not a rigid timetable that terrorists can exploit, but a public plan for winning and concluding the war.

America has a big job to do now. We must set reasonable goals to finish what we started and successfully turn over Iraqi security to Iraqis. We must deny terrorists the prize they are now seeking in Iraq. We must repair the damage done to our reputation. We must reform our intelligence system so we never go to war on false premises again. We must repair the breach with the Muslim world. And we must continue to fight terrorism wherever it exists.

If these elections succeed, we should be able to start drawing down our troops, but we should also plan to continue to help secure the country and the region with a smaller footprint on an as-needed basis.


Sincerely yours,
Hillary Rodham Clinton