Summit politics
Now that’s what I call a real summit for once: a standoff between two of America’s most talented comedians, George W Bush and Stephen Colbert, at the annual White House Correspondents dinner. Here’s the BBC reporting on Bush’s performance – and here, via throwawayyourtv.com, is Colbert’s performance (25 minutes). Truly a struggle of giants. I [...]
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Bloglesenachlese
Die mangelnde Einbindung meines Blogs in der deutschen (trotz der so vielversprechenden Domain…) und – viel wichtiger – regionalen Blogosphäre wurde mir am letzten Freitag mal wieder dramatisch vor Augen geführt.
read onDie Saudis, der Sex und die Syrerinnen.
So wie es sich ja mittlerweile unter Technologiemanagern aller Nationen herumgesprochen hat, daß die Pornobranche eine treibende Kraft der technischen Entwicklung ist – es wird ja z.B. behauptet, daß die Unentschiedenheit der Produzenten im San Fernando Valley der wirklich wesentliche Grund für die Plattformstreitereien bzgl. der DVD-Nachfolgegeneration sei – erlaubt wohl auch die nicht-mediale Rotlichtbranche [...]
read onWhy Blogs matter (especially in the US).
Mediamatters.org tells us to which extent the American so-called mainstream media has mentioned the CBS 60 minutes story I reported below – On CBS’ 60 Minutes, former high-ranking CIA official Tyler Drumheller proved that the Bush administration dismissed clear-cut evidence undermining President Bush’s central case for war — that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass [...]
read onThe Saudis, their Flag and the Brothel.
Another headline that should prove to be google effective. Too bad the manager of, according to Spiegel Online, Europe’s largest brothel, Cologne’s “Pascha”, did not have to deal with google bots when he decided to apply the world cup’s motto “welcome to friends” rather literally and try to attract some football fans in need to [...]
read onGeiz mal gar nicht geil.
Via N-TV online – “Offenbar um die Kosten für ein Bestattungsunternehmen zu sparen, hat eine 53-Jährige ihre verstorbene Mutter 450 Kilometer durch Deutschland auf dem Rücksitz ihres Autos transportiert.”
read onRepeat with me: Wa-ter-gate.
Two US state legislatures (Illinois and California) have introduced (though not yet passed) resolutions that would apparently force the US congress to initiate impeachment proceedings against the President Bush based on a little known floor rule (via opednews.com) “Representative Yarbrough stumbled on a little known and never utlitized rule of the US House of Representatives, [...]
read onThe Tides Have Turned.
Anyone remember the controversy a Bush critical statement by the Dixie Chicks created back in 2003? Well, those were days. Three years, a misconceived war, a press secretary, and a watergatesque scandal later, Bush bashing has finally gone mainstream again, even in the US. Still it’s not often as beautifully packaged as P!nk’s “Dear Mr [...]
read onNutritious.
Update:It turns out Tom Cruise was actually being sarcastic when he made the statement about eating the placenta, trying to make fun of what people would actually believe he would do. Be that as it may, the fact that so many people actually believed he might go through with the stated intention will likely have [...]
read onThe Daily Show with George W. Bush!
Once upon a time, Comedy Central’s Daily Show host Jon Stewart was asked whether the end of President Bush’s administration would make his life as a comedian harder. His reply was that, yes, his life as a comedian would be more difficult to the extent that the following administration was less absurd than the current [...]
read onPeep, peep, peep, peep, Yeah!
Vor einiger Zeit habe ich mal die Seite 25peeps erwähnt, einer Art Einklebealbum für Blogger. Aber das einfache Einkleben von Bildchen würde natürlich den technischen Möglichkeiten des Web nicht auch nur annä;hrend gerecht, weswegen man bei 25peeps.com darüber entscheiden kann, welche Bildchen bzw. Autoren auf der Seite zu sehen sind: die aktuellen top25 Blogger-Beliebtheits Charts [...]
read onParis Hilton singt für Hugh Hefner.
Vor einer Woche feierte ich mit ein paar Freunden bei Cappuccino und Frühlingssonne die Wiederaufstellung der Sitzgarnituren vor der kleinen Kneipe am Ende der Straße. Wie bei den meisten akadmischen Stammtischsubstituten begann das Gespräch zunächst recht ernsthaft, um dann doch recht schnell auf die Fragen zu kommen, die vielleicht am ehesten darüber Auskunft geben können, [...]
read onSeriously. It’s worse than I thought.
I’ve always said that it’s important not to underestimate the American President. But I’m not sure that is actually possible. His Q&A session at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies is a box full of candy for Bush comedy of all kinds. Here’s a question by a first year graduate student about the [...]
read on9% native American, 11% northern African.
The NY Times about the technology that will be ending affirmative action. Alan Moldawer’s adopted twins, Matt and Andrew, had always thought of themselves as white. But when it came time for them to apply to college last year, Mr. Moldawer thought it might be worth investigating the origins of their slightly tan-tinted skin, with [...]
read onRepeat with me: Wa-ter-gate!
Wow, suddenly those demanding the impeachment of President Bush don’t sound too crazy anymore. Political power sometimes is such an elusive thing. So President Bush admitted to declassifying the NIE report so it could be used by his political operatived for political and PR reasons. Yesterday, he claimed to have done it so the American [...]
read onIran is not Iraq?
Last week, in an interview with the BBC, Condoleeza Rice was still adamant, insisting on geographical facts, making it clear that “Iran is not Iraq.” On the other hand, reality based arguments have too often been denied their factual power by the Bush administration to simply believe her in this case. Seymour Hersh, for one, [...]
read onIsrael, the AIPAC, and US foreign policy
In today’s IHT, Daniel Levy, who was an advisor to former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, discusses a recent paper entitled “The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy” by John J. Mearsheimer (University of Chicago) and Stephen M. Walt (John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University).
read onAre publishers catpeople?
Still having problems with the server – or rather, more precisely, with the interaction between my installation of MT and the server’s Perl installation – so posting is excruciatingly slow and will only work through the regular interface. I would like to regale you, my gentle readers, with some fun impressions from my visit to [...]
read onDeutsche Journalisten und das Internet…
Bei Fabian Mohr (Notebook | Online Journalismus) findet sich eine überaus interessante Diskussion über das Verhältnis von – sich selbst offenbar als angehende Elitejournalisten wahrnehmenden – Studenten der Deutschen Journalistenschule zu Onlinemedien im allgemeinen und zu Blogs im speziellen.
read onServer Problems
Gentle readers, I’m sorry to have to inform you, that this blog is suffering from severe server problems. Regular posting will be resumed when the latter are resolved.
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