Quote of the Day

Posted By on March 28, 2011 at 9:15 pm

Frank J.:

The reason the Middle East hates Israel so much is that they’d like to blame how everything sucks on the region, but then a bunch of Jews come and make a country and it’s the only one there [that] doesn’t look like it would benefit from a technology exchange with Fred Flintstone.

In Know Thy Enemy: The Middle East

And now for a quick musical interlude.

Posted By on March 28, 2011 at 8:13 pm

Will Young, an early winner of Britain’s “Pop Idol” competition:

(Like 90% of the new tunes I find myself liking, I found this as part of the soundtrack of a TV show — in this case, Top Gear. Yeah, I know, I know.)

To borrow a Douglas Adams construct: if Paul McCartney had written this song, he could have bought all of Wessex and Sussex with the royalties.