He was. And Gog appeared in normal-continuity Superman comics.

Aren’t they both supposed to be place names, anyway?

I remain embarrassed that I even tried, but I’m happy to chill here with you.

“one of the rectangle states”

I love this. Permission to steal?

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The Falluja offensive, one of the bloodiest assaults of the US occupation, was a turning point. In two weeks that April, thirty marines were killed as local guerrillas resisted US attempts to capture the city. Some 600 Iraqis died, many of them women and children. Al Jazeera broadcast from inside the besieged city, beaming images to the world. On live TV the network gave graphic documentary evidence disproving US denials that it was killing civilians. It was a public relations disaster, and the United States responded by attacking the messenger.

Just a few days before Bush allegedly proposed bombing the network, Al Jazeera’s correspondent in Falluja, Ahmed Mansour, reported live on the air, “Last night we were targeted by some tanks, twice…but we escaped. The US wants us out of Falluja, but we will stay.” On April 9 Washington demanded that Al Jazeera leave the city as a condition for a cease-fire. The network refused. Mansour wrote that the next day “American fighter jets fired around our new location, and they bombed the house where we had spent the night before, causing the death of the house owner Mr. Hussein Samir. Due to the serious threats we had to stop broadcasting for few days because every time we tried to broadcast the fighter jets spotted us we became under their fire.”

On April 11 senior military spokesperson Mark Kimmitt declared, “The stations that are showing Americans intentionally killing women and children are not legitimate news sources. That is propaganda, and that is lies.” On April 15 Donald Rumsfeld echoed those remarks in distinctly undiplomatic terms, calling Al Jazeera’s reporting “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable…. It’s disgraceful what that station is doing.” It was the very next day, according to the Daily Mirror, that Bush told Blair of his plan. “He made clear he wanted to bomb al-Jazeera in Qatar and elsewhere,” a source told the Mirror. “There’s no doubt what Bush wanted to do—and no doubt Blair didn’t want him to do it.”

We leftists have fixated on torture and wiretapping, but there are a lot more crimes in the Bush Administration crime-o-copia to choose from. It’s a buffet of monstrosity!

Also, the US military did attack journalists. They have attacked Al Jazeera twice, in 2001 and 2003, and then during the Iraq invasion, a tank fired a round into the Reuters bureau, in a building full of foreign journalists, claiming they had been recieving sniper fire from that building. The CPJ counts sixteen journalists killed by US forced in Iraq (they do not claim to know these were intentional), and Robert Fisk recounts the Reuters incident.

Cole had never been married or even had a girlfriend long enough to really think that he knew her. Were all women like this, and Mrs. Malich was unusual only in being so candid about her conniving?

There’s half the wing-nut ethos.

If there really were a strong disputatious media, this whole permanent state of war thing wouldn’t even exist. Ergo, there’d be no bloodthirsty, all-powerful enemy to coddle, no existential threat for his imagined weaklings to appease, no canvas of ‘reality’ for Ralph to splash his apocalyptic ravings on.

So many public outbursts of stupid in one day. How is it these freaks never get a Mr. Magoo eyes-open moment and say, “Did I really publish that atrocity? Holy shit, now I’ve got egg all over my face, one foot standing in dogshit and the other in my mouth. I need to move to a medium-sized city in one of the rectangle states, get a non-descript job in a suburban office park and never, ever write another word”.

conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids

Yup, somebody’s been fluoridating Peters’ water for a long time.