Archives: July 2006
Thu Jul 27, 2006
Tiger Woods: His Father's son
A story is told of a man who goes into a pawn shop to trade an old Bible he found in his basement. The shop keeper is astonished to find that what he holds in his hands is none other than a priceless Guttenberg Bible and offers the man a hefty sum of money in exchange for the rare item. As the man counts his profits from the sale he remarks: “this one is in pretty good shape. I found another one but I threw it away; some guy named Martin Luther scribbled all over it”.
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Fri Jul 21, 2006
Hezbollah: Sporting a poker face in a game of solitaire
One Israeli pilot commented in his diary how it is the rule for all Israeli fighters to recheck every coordinate they receive before hitting a target so as to ensure minimal collateral damage, if any. This is partly done in order to legitimize their grounds for defending themselves against another country’s aggression in front of a watchful world community. It is also one of Israel’s forms of viable currency for a continued military operations campaign against its enemies until they are safely pronounced incapable of retaliating for at least another extended period of tranquility.
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Fri Jul 14, 2006
Urban legends in Iraq
A prominent journalist recently commented on a story which was making the rounds in Iraq. Allegedly some insurgents had decapitated a young girl and sewn a dog’s head onto the young girl’s body. The journalist remarked that the story was more than likely fictitious, but he noted that given the state of affairs in that country, it could easily acquire the marks of authenticity in no time, given the fact that Iraqi citizens were quickly becoming inured to expect the unthinkable when it came to the levels of cruelty the terrorists were capable of.
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