First of all, a big thank you to everyone who made it out for the OC get together. I know I had a great time, and judging by the volume of alcohol consumed at Rennie’s, I take it everyone else did as well. I look forward to seeing you all again. Maybe we can make this a semi-annual, quasi-regular or neo-perennial thing.
I really enjoyed this article in The Economist about the role of conspiracy theories in Middle-Eastern politics. A brief excerpt:
One fellow in a Cairo café told The Economist that the culprit was clearly not al-Qaeda, but rather something called al-Gur. Was this, perhaps, a terror network still more murderous than the Bin Laden gang? No. On closer listening, it transpired that the evil al-Gur was bent on avenging not some wicked Yankee geo-blunder, but the theft of the 2000 American presidential election. “It’s obvious,” declared the café sage. “Who else could have wanted to hurt George Bush more than his rival, the former Vice-President al-Gur?”
This cover story from Newsweek on the new Matrix movies was like a wet dream.
Electric drills through the hands? Broken bottles up the anus? A Saturday night at Jeremy Jones’ pad in Idaho? Nope… Saddam’s preferred methods of torture.
Out like platforms..
