Wednesday, January 3, 2007

If You Order From Amazon...

Timothy Noah tells you something you might be glad to know.

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Recommended Reading

Fred Kaplan on Bush's plans for Iraq. Nothing you don't already know but Kaplan has a pretty solid overview of the problem.

• Posted at 5:30 PM · LINK

Today's Video Link

Today's link takes you an excerpt from what was probably the funniest bit aired during the rarely-seen Season 10 of Saturday Night Live. That was the year when the cast consisted of Jim Belushi, Billy Crystal, Mary Gross, Christopher Guest, Rich Hall, Gary Kroeger, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Martin Short, Pamela Stephenson and about half a season of Harry Shearer. During the half of the season he was around, Mssrs. Shearer and Short teamed to demonstrate a unique, male approach to synchronized swimming. Here's two minutes of it...

• Posted at 3:20 PM · LINK

Recommended Reading

Jacob Weisberg on what went wrong in Iraq. In the meantime, I'm waiting for a good article on what hasn't gone wrong in Iraq. There must be a few things.

• Posted at 3:12 PM · LINK