The U.N. “Regrets,” Dictators Shrug

 Civilizer
Chalk up the Zimbabwe “elections” as yet another nail in the coffin of the United Nations’ credibility.  Zimbabwe’s best chance yet for meaningful change mangled by widespread coercion and intimidation, a people beset for generations by corruption-fed poverty and dictatorship, and the U.N. “regret[s] that the election went ahead in these circumstances.”  Now that’s inspiring.  My [...]

It’s The All Things In Their Place One-Year Blog-iversary!

One year, 150 posts, one comment from a bona fide MIT genius, 3,032 hits from people searching “middle finger” alone, and thousands of man-hours saved worldwide from people who stopped thinking about important issues once they read this blog and just let me do it for them.
Been a good year.  Tell your friends.

Think This Would’ve Happened Without Elections?

 Civilizer 
Israel and Hamas agreed to a truce last week.  Hamas, whose 1988 covenant states:
“The Zionist invasion is a vicious invasion. It does not refrain from resorting to all methods, using all evil and contemptible ways to achieve its end. It relies greatly in its infiltration and espionage operations on the secret organizations it gave rise to, [...]

Shazam! Sunday News Roundup: June 22, 2008

 Captain Marvel
Top Story – U.N Weapons Inspectors Begin To Investigate Suspect Syrian Site
UN nuclear weapons inspectors hope this weekend to begin solving the mystery of the Syrian building attacked by the Israelis last September and which, according to the CIA, was a nuclear reactor under construction…[click here for more]
Homeland Security News – House Passes New [...]

It Is Named

 King Civilizer
Metallica has released the album title for their please-God-be-better-than-St. Anger follow-up to St. Anger:

This is huge news here on All Things In Their Place.  And so far, it sounds, mercifully, MUCH better than St. Anger.

John McCain Just Lost Me

 Civilizer
Un-goddamn-believable.  Of all the sops to offer the conservative base of the GOP whose enthusiasm John McCain has thus far failed to inspire, John McCain goes for broke (morally and logically) with overturning the ban on offshore oil drilling? 
I always figured that if McCain was going to turn hard right on anything, he’d do it [...]

All Things In Their Place Regrets The Passing Of Tim Russert

One of the few people in the news business with the brains to know what questions to ask, and the balls to keep asking until they were answered.  He will be missed.  Desperately.
“Eternal rest grant upon them O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them.  May their souls, and the souls of all the [...]

Middle Finger Of The Apocalypse: Johnny Dare

Save for NPR, I have not listened to FM radio for a prolonged amount of time probably in over 2 years, and when I have listened, it’s typically been a mid-afternoon spin down the dial in the hopes that my local rock station will play Metallica or Ozzy – a pretty safe bet given that [...]

She’s Not Going To Be VP (This Is Not A Hillary Rant)

 Civilizer
So Hillary has finally conceded, and now the talk turns more pointedly than ever to the “dream ticket” scenario with the Junior Carpetbagger from New York accepting a nomination for Vice-President.  Will not happen, and this is where I get pretty damn annoyed with the mainstream media, and the mainstream bloggers, who keep trying to pump [...]

Southland Tales: I Just Dunno Man

 Civilizer

***DISCLAIMER – The definitive review of Southland Tales can be found here***
I visit Ain’t It Cool News on a pretty regular basis, so I’d heard the rumblings about Southland Tales for a while preceding its “release,” if you want to call it that (out for 5 weeks in 63 theaters, made under $375,000 worldwide).  As [...]