The pictures on al Jazeera are Danny Pearl revisited. Cowardly, evil, depraved: and the fact that al Jazeera is broadcasting them shows exactly how unhinged the enemy has become. Ditto the news of the American serviceman who attacked his fellow soldiers. Two sides of the same Islamist coin. If these barbarians actually believe this kind of behavior will weaken American resolve, they just don’t know Americans. But it’s a good indicator that this war isn’t over yet. And the worse may yet be to come.
AFFLECK’S STYLIST, I MEAN CONSCIENCE: Are you as sickened as I am by the prospect of the Oscars tonight? My dismay at these half-brained actors is slowly beginning to morph into outright contempt. But at least Ben Affleck is being completely genuine when he talks of his preparations for tonight:
Donning an anti-war totem is also popular. Among the actors who have said that they will wear anti-war badges are nominees Day-Lewis, Adrien Brody, Pedro Almodóvar Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore as well as veteran star Dustin Hoffman. Yet even that decision has been difficult for some actors to make. Ben Affleck is among those who has apparently not yet made up his mind. Instead he has announced that the final decision will rest with his stylist.
Yep, his stylist. They don’t sell their souls in Hollywood any more. They have publicists to do that for them.
WHILE SOLDIERS DIE: Some New Yorkers do this:
“I always feel so energized after I go to these,” said a 30-year-old artist who goes by the name Machine. Lithe and statuesque, Machine was wearing sequined hot pants, fishnet stockings, shiny platform heels and a huge feathered headdress. His sign said, “Baby, I am the bomb.” Around him were drag queen nuns and two people wearing stars-and-stripes-patterned suits and dancing on stilts. A dozen women in red, white and blue bobbed wigs with matching skin-tight outfits and huge missile-shaped strap-on dildoes fanned out to the street, flouncing and dancing as they sang “Show me the way to the next little war,” to the tune of the Doors’ “Alabama Song.”
This, while barbarians are abusing captured soldiers.
The Dish 