Boycott Beijing

Blocking peacekeeping forces in Darfur and Burma? Check.

Violating freedom of the press? Check.

Torturing dissidents? Check.

Should the world’s democracies participate in two weeks of Chinese propaganda? Argue the Olympic ideal all you want, but repression shouldn’t be overlooked just to stage an athletic competition.

It’s time we stood up to China, though I don’t see it happening. Business interests dictate otherwise, so we’ll continue looking the other way while the communist superpower thwarts freedom and fairness.

Why not boycott the 2008 Olympics? Or at least threaten to do so. Exploit this leverage with the Chinese, while it still exists.

Too rash? Consider the massacred Monks in Burma.

No gays in Iran

Ahmadinejad’s thesis has some American support, including a Columbia professor who argues Western cultural imperialists exported homosexuality into the Arab world.

He suggests that by encouraging Arabs to adopt a Western homosexual identity, westernized Arab homosexuals have naturally provoked a counter-reaction against the importation of decadent Western culture into their societies.

Not surprisingly, the professor is also stridently anti-Israel.

Put you-know-who on suicide watch

This headline may be too much for Britney fanatics to bear:

BRITNEY SPEARS LOSES CUSTODY OF KIDS

To Kevin Federline, no less. That’s like losing a fistfight to Dennis Kucinich.

(Predictably, a fierce — and I do mean fierce, bitch — debate is underway on Duane’s site about the fate of Britney’s kids.)

Ha ha!

A Mets fan laments the team’s historic collapse.

Branding Atlanta

Andy proposes some catchy new slogans for the city where Jerry Reed was born.

MoveOn and free speech

So it’s okay for MoveOn.org to say whatever they want about anyone else, but don’t dare criticize them:

(I)t’s not too surprising that the liberal advocacy group would be a mite touchy from all the blowback online, even though it should be used to the abuse by now. So touchy, in fact, that it’s been sending out cease-and-desist letters to CafePress, a website that lets people offer custom-designed t-shirts, coffee mugs and the like for sale. Last week it demanded that the site remove eight items, arguing that they violated MoveOn’s merchandising trademarks.

There’s nothing like the smell of blatant hypocrisy in the morning.

Boycott Beijing

Blocking peacekeeping forces in Darfur and Burma? Check.

Violating freedom of the press? Check.

Torturing dissidents? Check.

Should the world’s democracies participate in two weeks of Chinese propaganda? Argue the Olympic ideal all you want, but repression shouldn’t be overlooked just to stage an athletic competition.

It’s time we stood up to China, though I don’t see it happening. Business interests dictate otherwise, so we’ll continue looking the other way while the communist superpower thwarts freedom and fairness.

Why not boycott the 2008 Olympics? Or at least threaten to do so. Exploit this leverage with the Chinese, while it still exists.

Too rash? Consider the massacred Monks in Burma.

No gays in Iran

Ahmadinejad’s thesis has some American support, including a Columbia professor who argues Western cultural imperialists exported homosexuality into the Arab world.

He suggests that by encouraging Arabs to adopt a Western homosexual identity, westernized Arab homosexuals have naturally provoked a counter-reaction against the importation of decadent Western culture into their societies.

Not surprisingly, the professor is also stridently anti-Israel.

MoveOn and free speech

So it’s okay for MoveOn.org to say whatever they want about anyone else, but don’t dare criticize them:

(I)t’s not too surprising that the liberal advocacy group would be a mite touchy from all the blowback online, even though it should be used to the abuse by now. So touchy, in fact, that it’s been sending out cease-and-desist letters to CafePress, a website that lets people offer custom-designed t-shirts, coffee mugs and the like for sale. Last week it demanded that the site remove eight items, arguing that they violated MoveOn’s merchandising trademarks.

There’s nothing like the smell of blatant hypocrisy in the morning.

James Dobson has a hissy fit

The country’s most influential Christian conservative isn’t happy with the GOP field. Somewhere, Hillary’s attempting to crack a smile.

Ted Turner unplugged

Before he was a “man of peace,” Ted Turner was an unrepentant, misogynistic asshole. I prefer the latter.