Hammer Mill Days

Greetings from the soundstage of terusdanorf girundolph huzzah. Can you hear me out there? Are you sure? Testing, testing... Oh, the trials and tribulations of interstellar tours! And who knows them better than Big Green , right? We know them all, like the backs of our hands. (Hmmmm.... never noticed that mole before. Better get that looked at. And when did I bark that knuckle?) We've grappled with irate, drunken crowds, ill-tempered club owners with six (or even seven) heads, venues that had no air or gravity (had to write those into our contracts - live and learn!), Frankenstein-like bouncers, galaxy collisions in the middle of the second set - we've been there, damnit. And if you include sFshzenKlyrn 's experiences, we're talking about every bad gig back to the big bang (which, I believe, was the name of the Rolling Stones' 1971 tour, wasn't it?) or even further. The big crunch, even. One of those. Anyway... what was I saying? Oh, yeah. Difficult interstellar...

Well, I'd been expecting to see it right along - the 1.000-word diatribe from Chuck Krauthammer in support of Israel's rampage in Gaza. And it did not disappoint... it contains all of the elements that make Krauthammer's screeds extra special: the hollow moralism, the chilling portraits of Palestinian depravity, the meticulous attention to select details coupled with a total neglect of even recent (i.e. the past year's) history. One brief example - he cited 6,464 rocket and mortar attacks from Gaza on southern Israel over the past three years. Since we're counting, I wonder if anyone has bothered to calculate the number of munitions expended by Israel on that sorry strip of land over the same period? No, I thought not. Never once does Krauthammer so much as suggest that Israel bears even minimal responsibility for the massive death and destruction now taking place in Gaza. Quite the contrary, it is Hamas that "is committed to causing the most civilian pain and ...