My arch-nemesis Scott Ott reports on the Democrats new strategy. I’m just glad it’s a parody, because that might actually work.
Rachel Lucas has a German professor who thinks that the atomic bombing of Japan is equivalent to the Holocaust. She also has a giant number of comments. I didn’t write a comment because of my lack of knowledge about history (we had a 2nd World War?), but, in general, I’m of the opinion that anyone the U.S. bombed deserved it plus.
John Hawkins notices how racism against blacks is okay if you’re left-wing. Good news for the KKK. He also got mentioned in Soldier of Fortune magazine. Kick ass.

This story was entitled “Al Qaeda planned to hit Asian bars” on the CNN.com mainpage. I know the feeling. Every once in a while I just throw up my hand in frustration and say, “I’m going to go hit some Asian bars.” It ends up, though, that the CNN story isn’t about Al Qaeda giving up terrorism and going bar hopping, but instead about them attacking nightclubs. CNN should entitle their stories more carefully.

Fifty Iraqis staged a rare demonstration calling for information about imprisoned relatives. They were all soon imprisioned. No information about them was given.

I was just thinking, is there any reason for the word “dictionary” to be in the dictionary? I mean, if someone uses a dictionary to look up the word dictionary, then they obviously already know what a dictionary is. I guess they have to have it in there for the sake of completeness, as they do a number of other words. For instance, no one is ever going to look up what “the” or “of” means, but they still had to define them. And, though everyone who has even a slight grasp of English understands those concepts, the words themselves are really hard to define. I bet the least senior people got that assignment; think of spending all that time trying to explain “the” while knowing no one is ever actually going to read it. And did the person have to refrain from using “the” in the definition to keep it from being circular? Are there lots of disgruntled dictionary people? Maybe they get some cool benefits, like, after being there a long while, you get to make up your own word. Oh, and was the aardvark named that simply for prominent placement in the dictionary? If that’s true, that’s kind of pathetic. Then again, I guess that makes the aardwolf even more pathetic. And is there an authority they go to for defining slang and swear words, or do they just reference their foul-mouthed uncle Louie?
I gotta stop looking up words in the dictionary; it’s distracting.