If you think service at AT&T, Verizon, SBC, Cingular, T-Mobile, Virgin, TracFone, Pac Bell, MCI, and Sprint are bad, just be glad your phone company isn't from Bangladesh.

 

When McDonald's found itself down and out in Egypt a couple years back, it created the McFalafel.

 

This week's NYT Magazine has an interesting article on the cozy world of defense contracting. Military-industrial complex indeed.

 

Cool! As if you haven't had enough hype about tomorrow's release of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, check out CNN/Money Magazine's dollars to wizard money converter.

Now, I've become as big a fan as any of Harry Potter, but I don't think I'm gonna shell out $16 (3 galleons, 5 sickles, 12 knuts in wizard cash) for the hardcover if I can get the paperback for $6. If I can stand waiting for the paperback...

 

Not every suicide in Israel is a Palestinian blowing himself up...

 

Dubya manages to fall off an "idiot proof" Segway scooter. With pictures!

 
"Jerry! Jerry! Jerry!" ringing in the halls of the Senate? Jerry Springer thinks yes. =)

 
I hate dating.

St. Augustine said "It's better to have loved and lost than not to have loved at all". Bupkis.

 

Help on translating the Hill's interview with BaBaWaWa.

And, Sun Tzu buys Berkshire Hathaway

 

From the man who brought you the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, here's the poetry of Ari Fleischer!

 
Gratuitous pulchritude time again!

I saw this 2001 Canadian film "Lost and Delirious" last week. It's a movie about teen gender identity, and confusion thereof, set at an elite Canuck girls' boarding school. Quite good. I only wish American films can approach such sensitivity and depth. But then, if American films could do that, we wouldn't need the Canadians...

Oh and

Mischa Barton is spectacularly hot in the movie, along with Piper Perabo and Jessica Paré.

 

You've read the poetry of Donald Rumsfeld, now Rummy orders breakfast.

 
Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, "furloughed" Iraqi Information Minister, now has his own DVD!!!

And, Weird Al has a new album!