July 22, 2004
INVASION OF THE ASPARASIBLINGS
My sister and brother are both in town for the next few days. Blogging may be light for a while.
PROFANITY SAVES LIVES
From Chapter 9 of the just-released-this-morning 9/11 Commission report:
"Evacuation orders did not follow the protocol for giving instructions when a building's collapse may be imminent--a protocol that includes constantly repeating "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday"--during the 29 minutes between the fall of the South Tower and that of the North Tower. In addition, most of the evacuation instructions did not mention that the South Tower had collapsed. However, at least three firefighters heard evacuation instructions which stated that the North Tower was in danger of "imminent collapse"...At least two battalion chiefs on the upper floors of the North Tower--one on the 23rd floor and one on the 35th floor--heard the evacuation instruction on the command channel and repeated it to everyone they came across...[The chief on the 35th floor] subsequently acted with a sense of urgency, and some firefighters heard the evacuation order for the first time when he repeated it on tactical 1. This chief also had a bullhorn and traveled to each of the stairways and shouted the evacuation order: "All FDNY, get the fuck out!" As a result of his efforts, many firefighters who had not been in the process of evacuating began to do so."
July 21, 2004
MIXING YOUR MODULES AND YOUR EPISODES
I thought this, from Ben Hammersley, was really cute:
"The perils of coding and bittorrenting at the same time.perl -MCPAN -e 'install CSI::Miami'
More coffee needed. I repeat, more coffee needed."
*geeky snicker*
Personally, my favorite CPAN modules are DateTime::Fiction::JRRTolkien::Shire (what year is it in Frodo's world?), Acme::Playmate (ooh, bunnies), and Lingua::FI::Kontt (a Finnish Pig Latin converter).
July 20, 2004
MICHAEL LEDEEN ON IRAN, YET AGAIN
From his comments published in both National Review Online and on AEI's website just yesterday, on his favorite subject:
"News stories on Sunday reminded readers that Richard Clarke had written that there was considerable evidence of collusion between Osama and the mullahs, and Asharq al-Awsat reported on the 15th that "more than 384 members of al-Qaeda and other terrorist organizations are present in Iran, including 18 senior leaders of Osama bin Laden's network." These terrorists were not, as the Iranians were quick to pretend, under arrest. Nor, as Iranian officials put it the day after, had the al Qaeda groups been destroyed. Many were living in villas near Chalous on the Caspian Sea, while others were in Lavizan, either in or near a big military base...And of course there is the ongoing slapstick routine at the United Nations Atomic Energy Agency, which constantly finds Iran cheating on its promises to tell all and show all about its atomic project, but never does anything to impose its will, bringing to mind Groucho's classic words, "I've got principles. And if you don't like them, I've got other principles."...
I have been reduced to begging "faster, please," but I have long since recognized that nothing would happen until after the elections (a potentially suicidal policy). Now the London Times has found a nameless someone in the Bush administration who promises that a second term for W. would bring vigorous support of democratic revolution in Iran, and decisive action against the atomic project. It is beyond me why anyone would take seriously such claims, given the fact that after four years in office this administration still has no Iran policy, and the deputy secretary of State, Richard Armitage, has never backed off his claim that Iran is a democracy, nor has he been gainsaid by any other top official. I certainly hope the Times is right, but I have my doubts. I'm afraid we're not going to get serious about Iran without another 9/11.
In the 20th century we were often saved from our own isolationism and self-delusion by our enemies, who attacked us and thereby resolved our foreign policy debates in favor of honorable self defense. Check this one out with the Germans regarding World War I, with the Japanese regarding World War II, with Stalin regarding the Cold War, and with Saddam concerning two Gulf wars. Osama bin Laden made a terrible mistake on 9/11, sealing the doom of the Taliban and a goodly number of his own killers, and depriving the remnant of vital support. If the Iranians approved yet another attack on Americans or on American soil, they might, let's say it as delicately as possible, no longer benefit from the benevolent shelter offered by the Middle Eastniks in the CIA and State, supported by the likes of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Maybe that would finally produce an Iran policy worthy of the name: support for democratic revolution against the mullahs. "
Hear, hear. DEH-MO-CRASS-EE IN EE-RAN! DEH-MO-CRASS-EE IN EE-RAN!
LIST OF REJECTED IPOD ENGRAVINGS
Current iPod owners (and future ones like me) probably know that you can get your iPod personalized by Apple with up to two lines of text engraved on the back (metal) side. But not many people know that Apple can exercise editorial control over something that's about to be your piece of property. Here's a list of some actually-rejected and some presumably-would-be-rejected iPod engravings, including this sampling:
- Rip, Mix, Burn Down RIAA Headquarters
- Lick My Shiny Metal Ass
- I last 8 hrs. You last 2 minutes. Who's the man?
- Weapons of Mass Distraction Inside
- 10,000 Stolen Tunes Inside
I only put my name on the back of mine, and, after a bit of internal debate, decided not to put my e-mail address on there too. If I lose my iPod (God forbid), I hope the lucky findee will read the name on the back and know how to use Google (or the phone book) well enough to get in touch with me--at which point it will probably be held for more ransom than a Phillippine hostage. Maybe I should have engraved "Big reward if found, so give it back, muthafucka!" on the second line.
WATCH IT MOVE
Ooooh, check out this extremely cool optical illusion. There are lots more here. Warning: despite the fact that these are all static (i.e. non-animated) GIF's, they may give you a headache or motion sickness.
[via George Hernandez]
July 19, 2004
JUST THE TRE OF US
Look who finally showed up to take away my money.
Not to be outdone by Brooke, who has ordered some sort of cheaper iPod Value Edition, in a limp attempt to outdo my 3rd Generation ultra-expensive, luxurious status symbol, I have already ordered my Verizon Wireless Treo 600.
This means I will now become one of those polyphonic-ringer, weak-ass camera phone snapping, talks-to-a-gameboy tech geeks. Also, while it's tiny for a smartphone, it's large for a phone-phone, which means I'll have to really get into cargo pants, add maternity patches to my pockets, or disobey the almighty Carson Kressly and stick the beautiful bugger back on my belt.
Classy problem, kids. Classy problem.
UPDATE: It's here, less than 24 hours after I placed the order. And, my friends, it da bomb. It's crazy good. The software harvested my old palm's info and integrated it beautifully into the new device. I will confess, there was more than a little gleeful jumping upwards and down, but I assure you that you yourself would do likewise if you only knew.
If you only knew...
GOD DOESN'T WANT ME BLOGGING
Every time I try to write the large piece I've been mulling over, something comes up.
Today, I've discovered that my CDR+W drive has died. It still thinks it works, but it doesn't actually accomplish anything other than rendering blank CDs unusable.
One firmware upgrade later... still dead.
Dell's support web page likes you to send requests via emails that the page itself generates, but that page crashes when you enter your service tag. They're famous for this support.
I hate everybody.
THE NEW IPODS ARE OUT
Newsweek has the scoop. The new iPods are thinner, have a longer battery life (well, supposedly), feature the click-wheel that was first introduced with the iPod Mini's, and are each a hundred bucks cheaper. I just placed my order for the 40 GB model through the Apple store online and can't wait to get my grubby little paws on it.
I've been waiting for this new model to come out for about five months, and while I'm happy to finally see it released, it doesn't have all the features I'd thought (or read online) that they'd include in a 4th Generation iPod. I'd assumed that they'd bump up the capacity to 50GB or 60GB, but nothing so far. I'd heard rumors that it would contain a video-out port so that you could display digital photos stored on it via a TV, or a small oLED screen to display album art. Guess that's not in this version, but there's always the next one; PortalPlayer, the company that manufactures the iPod's main chip, came out with a hot new chip a few months ago that includes realtime video decoders, which fueled a lot of the speculation.
Perhaps Apple will someday add a new fuller-featured line of iPods (vPods, as in video? pPods, as in photos?) with these new capabilities, just as they added a scaled down line in the iPod Mini. Steve Jobs claims not to want such an all-in-one item, but with Creative and other companies coming out with them already, they're going to face sales pressures if they don't keep up.
Ahhh, little white plastic status symbol, you're the best thing to come around since heavily-flavored coffee. God bless you, Steve Jobs, and God bless the drug dealer who sold you the LSD in the 1970's that sparked your infamous acid trip (chronicled in The Pirates of Silicon Valley) whose lasting creative vision and drive has brought you and your company and your fabulous products to this point in time.
July 18, 2004
THE COMING INTRA-GAZA CIVIL WAR
Meryl Yourish sums it up, with copious links:
"Okay. So let me see if I get this straight. First, the Jenin Martyrs' Brigade kidnap the PA police chief in Gaza. Then they let him go. Then they kidnap French civilians from a coffee shop. Then the head of security in Gaza (try not to laugh at that title) "resigns," perhaps because he recognizes the futility of his title, or perhaps because he realizes that his idiot brethren have just kidnapped citizens from one of the PA's staunchest allies and enablers. Somehow, the French citizens are also released unharmed. (Cue Three Stooges music.)...So now we have a police chief, four Frogs, and that apparently wasn't enough: They kidnapped yet another "security official" (in other words, a terrorist with a uniform) and then let him go, probably because they knew that the Arathugs would be out for their blood if they didn't. Or possibly because all they were doing is making a very loud point: End corruption or we will.
So, in response to this, Arafat fires the police chief and replaces him with—get this—his nephew. Way to inspire confidence in those reform actions, Fishhead.
But wait, we're not quite finished yet. The palestinian Prime Mouthpiece, er, Minister, resigns. Arafish refuses to accept Quirei's resignation (big surprise). He also announces that he will merge security services, and Reuters publishes a rare criticism of Arafat.
"Arafat, in apparent response to the gunmen's demands, fired the police commander, Ghazi al-Jabali, appointed a cousin, Major General Mussa Arafat, as overall security chief for Gaza, and announced its 12 security services would be combined into three.Facing growing criticism at home and abroad over his failure to overhaul security forces and other institutions after nearly four years of Israeli-Palestinian violence, Arafat has made similar unification pledges before but taken no action."
But note the reflexive anti-Israel line. Arafat is called upon to reform his corrupt institutions, and Reuters manages to find a way to knock Israel for Arafat's greed. And they'll knock Israel again, but check out the final quote in this article:
"...But a spokesman for the militants who kidnapped Jabali condemned the president's move."With all due respect to President Arafat, the Palestinian Authority cannot remain to be monopolized by (Arafat) and his relatives," Abu Iyad said. "We have our own ways to show our rejection."
If I'm not mistaken, that last line threatens civil war."
There's more, but you can go read it for yourselves. Keep in mind that all this craziness has happened only within the past four days or so.
So, despite the fact that Israel is currently in the process of completely and totally pulling itself, its military bases, and those pesky settlers out of Gaza, things still aren't looking very well for Arafat or the residents of Gaza these days. I wonder why that is?
UPDATE: And just within the past twelve hours, "Palestinian militants" just sacked and burned down Arafat's office, calling for reforms. That's pretty amazing; Arafat's grip on the future Palestinian state may finally be slipping.
July 16, 2004
SO THESE TWO BIG BAKKA-GAIJIN WALK INTO A COUNTRY...
My parents and grandparents have long been urging Scott and me to travel now, while we're young married folk with no kids to hinder us. Go see the world and take advantage of your freedom, they say, while you're still young and not too tied down. Though both of my sets of grandparents have long been great and hearty world travelers--my mother's parents have visited such unstable locales as the USSR during the Cold War and my dad's parents took him hiking through the Peruvian jungles as a kid, where he ate monkey brains--my parents implicitly mean that we should go see Westernized and safe countries, places that have McDonald's and toilet paper.
Given the current world situation, I'm reluctantly inclined to agree, although Scott and I have said, only half-jokingly, that ten years post-9/11 we want to do the Axis Of Evil World Tour (the Central Asian version) and trek through Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq, at least two and hopefully three of which will be modest but stable democracies by that time. But, for the moment, we'll stick a bit closer to home, seeking to combine Western stability, exotic culture, yummy food, and a far lower chance of air- or water-borne pathogens. In other words, Scott and I are planning a trip to Japan for a week or maybe more in early October.
Continue reading "SO THESE TWO BIG BAKKA-GAIJIN WALK INTO A COUNTRY..."July 14, 2004
EIGHT IS ENOUGH
They're making a Police Academy 8 movie. That's just sad.
In #5 they went to Miami Beach. In #7 they went to Moscow. Maybe in #8 they could go to Fallujah?
[via Where There's Smoke]
SYNDICATE THIS
The New York Times has finally caught up with the times: the Grey Lady is now offering RSS feeds of their headlines, broken down by section of the paper. I, on the other hand, started offering an RSS feed on my old blog back in October, 2002 and expanded it to three flavors when Scott and I switched to Movable Type this past February. Nyah. And as this story from Wired explains, this is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the Times' general problems staying up to date with web technology and trends:
"Two years ago, Martin Nisenholtz, chief executive of New York Times Digital, bet $1,000 that nytimes.com would outrank all blogs on Google by 2007, based on a search of five keywords on a topical news issue. Unless Google and the Times work on their relationship -- Nisenholtz says they're talking, although they haven't come up with any answers yet -- there may be a day when The New York Times doesn't show up at all on the Net's most popular search engine. Ultimately, this could be a direct threat to the Times' legacy."You think? When kids today grow up thinking that if it's not online and you can't Google it, it doesn't exist or isn't important, concentrating your efforts on keeping your content behind a for-pay firewall is pretty stupid. Or, rather, it's smart if you want money, but fatal if you want influence, which is much more important.
I guess I shouldn't bash the Times' site too much: their 100+-year archive is great for doing genealogy-related searches of my New York relatives (birth, marriage, death announcements, etc.). But it's still a paid archive, and not indexed, and as the naive, cheesy, and still-accurate hacker credo goes, "information wants to be free". Keep up with the times and the technology, or watch your influence wane.
In other RSS-related news, the number of people who read this website via RSS newsreaders (as opposed to using web broswers) has been climbing for some time now. Yesterday, 170 people read this site via the RSS 1.0 (RDF) feed, which contains only excerpts, and 462 people read the site via the RSS 2.0 (XML) and Atom feeds, which both contain full entries. That's still a small percentage of daily traffic, but it's pretty cool.
For those of you reading this via one of the feeds: howdy! How's it look from over there? Any suggestions on how to improve the feeds? Does anybody want XML feeds of other areas of this site, such as comments or archive pages? Anything else we should be looking at to maintain our geek cred?
(I know, I know, I need to fix the site's CSS so it looks the same in IE, Mozilla, and Safari, which right now it does not. And this from someone who deals with design, usability, and cross-broswer issues for a living. Oh, the shame.)
July 13, 2004
QUEER EYE FOR THE STRAIGHT *GIRL* CASTING CALL IN LOS ANGELES ON THURSDAY
Received via the show's e-mail list:
If you or someone you know can use a "make better" and LIVES WITHIN A 30-MILE RADIUS OF THE LOS ANGELES AREA (as determined from the Beverly Center, Beverly Blvd & La Cienega Blvd), come to our OPEN CALL this THURSDAY:Thursday, July 15, 2004
3:00 pm - 7:30 pmASG Casting, Inc.
10200 Riverside Dr. #205
Toluca Lake, CA 91602...or if you can't make it, send us your info online, via the instructions available here:
I'm just passing the info along since, obviously, I don't qualify for the show.
July 12, 2004
ENTER THE SADDAM DEATH POOL
Yes, everybody's favorite morbid pasttime has finally come to everybody's favorite deposed dictator. Laurence Simon, formerly of the blog Amish Tech Support and now of This Blog Is Full Of Crap, has started Saddam is Full Of Crap, a death pool site set up to bet on the date of the Babylonian Bastard's final timely or untimely death, as well as to track the furor over his upcoming trial.
Here's how to get in on the action:
Send an e-mail to saddam (at) isfullofcrap.com with the following:1) The date Saddam dies.
2) Why you picked that date.
3) What name you'd like to put the entry under.
4) If you'd like to link that name to a URL, what URL would you like linked.Selections through any other method will not be accepted. You are shit out of luck if you leave your pick in comments, trackbacks, your own site, or via IM. E-mail to saddam (at) isfullofcrap.com with the above 4 items only.
Oh, and only one entry per person.
And here's the FASQ if you need more info. That S is in there on purpose.
Here's my entry, which I just e-mailed to Laurence:
- I predict that Saddam will bite the big one on September 11, 2004.
- No, I don't actually think it will happen on such a symbolic-to-Americans date, considering that his executioners will be Iraqis. But I doubt the trial will take all that long, considering how much everyone wants him dead, how much they want revenge for the hell on Earth he put them through. And I do think that he'll go on trial and receive judgment--one way or another, legally or extra-legally--before the 2004 American elections. Call it a hunch. Besides, I took a look at the dates everyone else has picked so far, and no one has touched September yet. So I'm doing the Price Is Right move and going for the empty space.
- Put the name under Asparagirl, of course.
- http://www.yuppiesofzion.com/
Of course, I'm also historically pretty bad at death pools. In college, the student newspaper had one going for Reagan, Sinatra, and Yeltsin during a short period of time where it looked like all three were about to kick off, so you had to guess not only the dates but the order they'd go in. And Boris is still alive and embalmed, so obviously we all lost.
[via Allah]
THE RISE OF ALGERIE-NORD
From Expatica, a website whose focus and purpose is supposed to be encouraging people to move to or live in France, comes this piece of news:
"Racist, anti-Jewish crimes soar in FrancePARIS, July 9 (AFP) - The number of racist and anti-Jewish acts in France is rising sharply, with more recorded so far this year than for all of 2003, the government announced Friday.
The "very strong acceleration" in the number of cases was worrying but would be met with resolve, spokesman Jean-Francois Cope said following a ministerial meeting devoted to the problem.
President Jacques Chirac on Thursday called for the country to make a dramatic effort to combat racism and for tough punishment to meted out to perpetrators of anti-Semitic, xenophobic and homophobic acts.
According to interior ministry statistics reported in Le Figaro newspaper, 95 physical acts and 161 threats of a racist nature have been recorded in the first half of 2004.
There were 135 physical acts and 375 threats of an anti-Jewish nature."
Did you note what is mysteriously absent from that depressing little article? Perhaps when describing a huge surge in crimes, especially bias crimes, it might be advisable for a news organtization to note that the perpetrators of almost every one of those attacks have been beurs, French Muslims of North African or Arab descent. It might be further notable to include statistics showing that this sharp rise started with the start of the Palestinian Intifada in September, 2000, or that French Jews have been fleeing the country for the relative "safety" of Israel at a greatly increased rate (Israeli newspaper Maariv says 30,000 are possibly planning to go this year), or the incredible number of synagogue desecrations and arsons in recent years, or any number of other facts to put the situation into some perspective. French newspaper Le Monde was not much better in describing the situation (the article is in French), and notes that the attack rate has doubled in six months' time. And this article was published just days before the reports (as-yet unsubstantiated) that a young Australian mother and her baby were attacked on a subway train by six men, because they were (mistakenly!) thought to be Jewish for living in the 16th arrondisement.
Upset about the situation, I took a look at the website for CRIF, which is the umbrella organization for French Jewish communities, groups, and synagogues. They're supposed to be focused on mundane community-building things like reporting on trends in religious education, but lately, they've been busy furiously tracking anti-juive hate crimes. First they had one long list on a webpage. Then they had to break the pages out by year, because there were so many incidents to document. Now it appears that, as of July 8th, they've had to start breaking down the incidents into type of attack per year:
Continue reading "THE RISE OF ALGERIE-NORD"July 09, 2004
GIVING NEW MEANING TO THE TERM "RUNNING MATES"
It's been mere days since Kerry announced Edwards as his pick for Veep and there's already a LiveJournal community for Kerry/Edwards slash.
Yes, slash. As in slash fan fiction. If you don't know what that is by now, you obviously haven't been reading this blog for very long. We're talking man-love here, people.
Although usually slash is about fictional characters--Holmes/Watson, Kirk/Spock, Sam/Frodo--there's a sub-genre called RPS--Real People Slash--that usually involves pouty members of boy bands or LOTR actors. And now it's apparently been extended to politicians. I knew the slash subculture was starting to go mainstream, but this is crazy.
Despite being a Republican, I'm (surprisingly) not totally squicked by the idea. Edwards is pretty damn good-looking. And if slash fans can squirt themselves silly over hairy little hobbits, ugly Slytherin potions masters, and pointy-eared Vulcans, then I guess even John "Botox" Kerry can get a little admiration. (Just not from me.)
Let the obvious questions begin: who's on top? Does Theresa know? Does she care? Are any other political figures going to make cameo appearances? Will there be a hurt/comfort scene between Gephardt and Dean, commiserating in not getting the nomination? Can we expect the de rigeur crossover fic with Buffy?
Now, who wants to write me some hot and heavy JFK/Adlai Stevenson action?
[via Instapundit]
UPDATE, 7/10: To be fair, here's a Bush/Cheney version, from Max Blumenthal.
[via LAist]
HEY, I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM...
Prepare to have your mind broke, courtesy of America's favorite group-sex-experienced Governor.
EUROPE AND THE TRUCE
Do you remember Madrid?
It's that lovely city in Spain where hundreds of people were murdered when terrorists planted bombs in backpacks on several commuter trains...? On the two-and-a-half-years anniversary of 9/11? Just days before the national elections? Show of hands, please.
Sounds like a silly question to ask, what with arrests for the bombings continuing across Europe even in the past week, and some of the accused said to have ties to the 9/11 planners. But that's just thinking of Madrid in terms of a criminal act: rounding up suspects, incarcerating them, building a case against them. People seem to have forgotten that Madrid was an act of war, one that Spain would have had perfectly good justification to use if they decided to go after Al Qaeda in Iraq or Sudan or Afghanistan or anywhere else they wanted to go hunt down terrorists. (Of course, the reality is that the terrorism led them not to seek revenge, but to actually pull out their troops from Iraq. In short, it worked. In Spain, killing bulls for sport is fair game, but killing terrorists for justice is not.)
But few people seem to remember what else coincided with the Madrid bombings. In a message first broadcast on Al Arabaya TV on April 14, Al Qaeda made a threat to all the countries of Europe that they should pull out their troops from Iraq, stop fighting Al Qaeda and cooperating in US-led anti-terrorist hunts, go back and hide with their wine and brie..."or else". And they called it a "truce offer" with Europe, and said it was good for three months.
Well, that oh-so-civilized truce offer expires, depending on how you want to look at it, on either this Sunday or the following Wednesday. It's Wednesday if you go three months by the Western Gregorian calendar, but it's Sunday if you go three months by the Islamic lunar calendar.
Continue reading "EUROPE AND THE TRUCE"July 02, 2004
SUMMER READING, BUT NOT OF THE BEACH VARIETY
There's a great thread going on at Erin O'Connor's blog Critical Mass about favorite biographies and historical non-fiction (and some historical fiction) that don't require the reader to have a lot of previous knowledge of the subject, culture, or era. The ones mentioned over there that I want to read at some point, and which will likely soon go on my Amazon.com wishlist, are:
Continue reading "SUMMER READING, BUT NOT OF THE BEACH VARIETY"June 29, 2004
OUR CONDOLENCES
Scott and I wanted to take a moment to express our condolences to a friend of ours who recently lost his mother. Laurie Smullin Russell was, by all accounts, an amazing woman, and I'm sorry I never got the chance to meet her. She died on June 14th, 2004 after a four-year fight with ALS, better known as Lou Gehrig's Disease.
As our friend put it in the eulogy he delivered at his mother's funeral--which he has posted on his blog--such a dreaded disease was pretty dumb to pick on someone who was:
- a nurse
- a longtime resident of Baltimore, home of famed research institute Johns Hopkins, which has the Robert Packard Center, the only ALS-specific research center in the world
- a consumate fundraiser, both for the aforementioned center and for her own foundation, as well as many other charitable and civic groups in Baltimore throughout the decades
- indefatigable and upbeat, even when beset by one of the most horrific illnesses known to mankind
Laurie raised a very large amount of money for ALS research, including raising $150,000 at one fundraiser alone and $120,000 at another one. She endowed a scholarship at the School of Nursing at the University of Pennsylvania, her alma mater. Her website kept her friends updated about her condition, and her tireless philanthropy led her to be honored by Johns Hopkins earlier this year for her work.
Our deepest condolences to Laurie's family and friends.
WAITING FOR THE SUN
"Heyyy, where's Scott?" You probably ask. "Without his formulaic jokes, we're left with Brooke Schreier, whom we all want to snog!" You complain, and not without good reason.
Last week, I started (and as it turns out, finished) working on a film set as an observer/punch-up hack. Suddenly, my sleep-in, do chores, watch porn lifestyle was shattered by a 7AM crew call, a nasty bronchial infection, and the beginnings of a coffee habit.
However, politics on the set dictated that I continue working, but from home where the writer can't see me, and so I return to you, the people who skim past my pieces to read my wife's.
June 28, 2004
UNDERAGE LESBIAN SEX TAPE ROCKS SCARSDALE
And once again, The New York Post in on the job, busting my old hometown for yet another drunk-high-school-kids scandal. This is not the first time alcohol-related shenanigans have landed Scarsdale in the spotlight; the 2002 Homecoming dance earned its share of national notoriety when approximately 1/3 of the kids attending--that's 200 kids!--turned up to the school drunk. I wrote about that incident, and the town's advanced state of denial with regards to their overprivileged brats' reckless and sometimes fatal behavior, almost two years ago. Looks like not much has changed.
Fellow Scarsdalian Aaron Scrolnick (who, like me, luckily avoided going to Scarsdale High School in favor of private school) put it this way:
Continue reading "UNDERAGE LESBIAN SEX TAPE ROCKS SCARSDALE"