Sunday, September 23, 2007

weekend update

Sept. 22, 2007—"Regarding external risks, God has helped us a lot because our enemy Bush is stupid.” Hossein Shariatmadrai, Iran ayatollah mouthpiece--NYT A4

--American and Iraqi forces control a little more than half of Baghdad’s neighborhoods but 8 percent are “free of enemy influence” and being secured primarily by Iraqi units, according to a senior American commander. NYT A7—hey the glass is 8% full…

--For Finntroll, as for many Scandanavian metal bands, Norse mythology is no joke. Evocations of old pagan societies fit well with the genre’s longstanding anti-Christian rhetoric. (“Ur Jordens Djup” ends with a short sing along abut an irate troll who burns down a church.) and you wondered how blondes celebrate Yom Kippur

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