A French cartoonist hits another low point in Yankenfreude.
FIRING LINGUISTS: Some thirty-seven linguists – many of them fluent in Arabic – have been thrown out of the military during the war on terror because they’re gay. Way to go, guys!
QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Am I saying that critics of the war aren’t patriotic? Not at all – I’m a critic of some aspects of the war. What I’m saying is that those who try to paint the bleakest, most anti-American, and most anti-Bush picture of the war, whose purpose is not criticism but deception in order to gain temporary political advantage, those people are indeed not patriotic. They have placed their own or their party’s political gain ahead of the national struggle to destroy the power base of the terrorists who attacked Americans abroad and on American soil.” – sci-fi writer, Orson Scott Card.
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