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PALIN GETS PRANK CALLED…   HILARIOUS!!! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcEiR01QK7o] What can I say…?  She says it all herself.

The Monologic Tactic of Belly-Butting

A Damascene anecdote courtesy of: KABOBfriend and covert KABOBoperative Sarah (with deep epistemological inclinations on physical space and hegemony of discourse). At a recent house-warming party, a friend and I got into a discussion of how much we disliked middle-aged men in the Middle East—although the phenomenon is certainly found all over the world, I’ve [...]

Gays Are Causing America’s Financial Crisis

Well, not really. But check out these two funny mofos skrew up a CNN broadcast about it. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwN-bK9qm8g]

Early Successes In Fayyad’s Anti-Spell Checking Campaign

[Tarboush Tip: Sexy Beast]

Happy April Fool’s Day!

I am on a listserv called Cairo Scholars that foreigners use in Cairo generally to exchange information with each other on how to get such and such done and where to find the best prices for something, etc. Someone just played the funniest April fool’s joke on us. The email is as follows: dear cairoscholars,i [...]

The Joys of Clalit

I hate Clalit. Clalit is one of the four major Sick Funds (health insurance companies) in Israel, and has shaped my interaction with the health care system in Israel. While Israel has top-notch care available in major hospitals in Jerusalem, the experiences in the Clalit clinic in the Palestinian town where I’ve visited as a [...]

Hamas Unleashes Jew-Eating Rabbits

Fear me, for I eat rabbits and rabbits eat Jews. That must make me super anti-Semitic, right? [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eeii225G-HM] Actually, I don’t have a problem with the video’s overall message — given the context of the rabbit’s speech, there’s nothing inherently anti-Semitic about it. After all, we can’t hold Palestinian bunnies accountable for not delineating between [...]

13, No Wait, 12 People Who Do Not Want To Blow You Up

In a hilariously misled attempt to publish a book on tolerance, two New York-based writers compiled write-ups of 13 people, mostly Muslims and with scary foreign-sounding names, and at the end of each say, “He does not want to blow you up!” Kareem Abdul-Jabbar does not want a chapter on himself saying “he does not [...]

KSA: “Hell, Even We’ve Got Standards!”

Brace yourselves, here comes the quote of the century… “This is not a theatrical production. We are not coming to be photographed and to shake hands. We do not want to give people the wrong impression.” Is it me, or is Prince Saud al-Faisal’s refusal to shake Ehud Olmert’s hand kinda like when a porn [...]

For All Those Clueless Darfur Activists…