01.19.09
Posted in News at 17:51 pm by Josh
The family of the guy who threw a shoe at President Bush is filing a lawsuit against the Iraqi Prime Minister and the exiting President, stating that his human rights have been violated in prison because he keeps getting beat up. In addition, the family claims the man did “nothing wrong”.
Two problems here: The first is that there is a very clear shot of this guy hurling his shoe across a press room and to be sure, I’m not sure I’ve ever seen such an honest look of fear on the President’s face. Afterwards, the guy admitted the offense (like he had a choice). How can you turn around and say he did nothing wrong? You don’t have to agree with the law for it to still be a law, and it seems fairly accurate to say that throwing a shoe a the US President constitutes aggravated assault on a foreign head of state. The only simpler way to translate that law is to say, “throwing your shoe at someone else’s president”. So very obviously, he did something wrong.
The second problem is the whole human rights issue. Are the other inmates now hired state officials, bound by some sort of oath? Look, I don’t agree with it, but people get beat up in prison. Everybody knows that. You can’t blame a head of state for the behavior of prison inmates. You wanted to take a stand and do something stupid and now you’re whining about the consequences like the world has done you some sort of harm. What happened to the tough guy who was (poorly) assaulting elected officals in front of news cameras only a month or two ago? You don’t want inmates to pummel you, don’t throw things at people. Especially important people with bodyguards.
Man, I’d hate to tell you what the inmates do to squirrely, whining men in US prisons.
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01.14.09
Posted in Random Thoughts, News at 10:55 am by Josh
I’m not sure that this explains why I talk to myself, but it sure is an interesting study.
I was going to tell you a bit about how I feel today, then I considered writing some poetry for you, and now I’m throwing in the towel altogether. If you don’t have something nice to say, best to say nothing at all. Have a happy day. We’ll talk soon.
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05.16.08
Posted in News at 19:18 pm by Josh
:-(
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09.20.07
Posted in News, Funnies at 10:58 am by Josh
Hillary Clinton gets ONE point from me. (Love for Star Wars or not, I’m still not voting for her.)
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09.17.07
Posted in Political Commentary, News, Funnies at 12:35 pm by Josh
Hillary’s health care plan according to CNN:
Under the plan, federal subsidies would be provided for those who are not able to afford insurance, and large businesses would be required to provide or help pay for their employees’ insurance.
Thanks, Senator. Real original. Never heard that one before…
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09.14.07
Posted in Reflections, Food, News, Life at 08:46 am by Josh
It seems that someone has not only rivaled, but surpassed my childhood love for zebra cakes. I’m going to spend the rest of the day trying to remember if I ever made a similar threat. If I did, it was probably towards Andy who was the only friend I can think of who would have tried to stiff me on a snack trade.
One of these days I’ll have something serious to say. I promise.
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09.06.07
Posted in Music, Today, News, Life at 08:46 am by Josh
Luciano Pavarotti has passed away 
. Puccini will never be the same.
I pray you are now with God, Mr. P. Thanks for seventy-one years, even if I was only around for 25 of them.
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09.05.07
Posted in News at 15:21 pm by Josh
Um, this is a pretty freakin’ huge mistake! I love how casual these things seem after the fact…
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05.22.07
Posted in Uncategorized, News, New York City at 10:56 am by Josh
New taxis by 2012! I vote for the Honda Civic but then again, I’m a little biased 
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05.16.07
Posted in Culture, News, Funnies at 13:21 pm by Josh
Anti-gun as I may be, I think this is really kind of cute.
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