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Monday November 19, 2001

Quote of The Day

"I watched the cranes scoop up soil from the pit, and then I grasped that it was not soil. There was no soil in this place. What they were moving was the substance that was formed out of the dissolution of everything and everybody that had been crushed and incinerated: a deathloam. There were spots of it on my boots. I shivered and moved away. And when I left it was not culture that was restored immediately to my consciousness. It was politics; policy; American action."

--Leon Wieseltier in The New Republic on visiting Ground Zero."

But Seriously, Folks: Only the New York Times and Senator John Kerry (between bites of fig mousse, no doubt) need tell us that Hillary is now being taken seriously as a New Yorker. Seems her visit to Ground Zero did it. .Everyone from Big Bird to Don King has been to Ground Zero. That's not what does it.

The Usual Suspects: Scroll down in Howard Kurtz' column this morning for a tidy list of the "Quagmirists" and Cheney's right to give them the frozen flounder. Other than leveling the landscape, bombing seems to have an added and obvious effect. It scares the living daylights plus the will to fight out of the enemy.

And, for more of the Quagmire Chronicles check out John Leo's excellent column here:

Little Things Mean A Lot: The Washington Times reports that the gentlemen who "liberated" one of Osama bin Laden's abandoned homes in Jalalabad found a discarded supply of birth control pills in the dust. The guy has twenty kids. Guess that tells us something.

Red Crossed and Red Handed: If you were annoyed with the Red Cross before, wait until you read this Washington Post front page piece on their shenanigans .

If your undonated blood hasn't reached the boiling point after that try this piece from CNS on where a lot of the rest of the money is going. Like the man said, "In chaos there is opportunity. We just didn't expect it from these quarters."

O'Reilly All Ears? Looks like an interesting situation is developing in media-land with Drudge's report that Bill O'Reilly is lusting for radio air time - opposite Rush Limbaugh in many markets - to generally jump ugly. If what he's done to take Jesse Jackson and the 9-11 charities to task is an indication of what his radio show would do, we say - have at it. There are ways to hear both. But, watch the liberal knickers twisting as they try to spin this one.

Your Unspun LComStaff

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Answers

"The Washington Times reports that the gentlemen who "liberated" one of Osama bin Laden's abandoned homes in Jalalabad found a discarded supply of birth control pills in the dust. The guy has twenty kids. Guess that tells us something."

I understand he has three wives. Didn't realize polygamy was sanctioned by Allah.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Oh, Brooks, it is. I think a man can have up to four wives.

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001

Yes, I think it's four. There is a proviso, I believe, that the man has to be able to afford the wives. Don't know if he has to be able to afford the children too!

-- Anonymous, November 19, 2001