The Indian Ocean standoff between an $800 million United States Navy destroyer and four pirates bobbing in a lifeboat showed the limits of the world’s most powerful military as it faces a booming pirate economy in a treacherous patch of international waters.What the FUCK are they trying to say here? Only a hugely idiotic fucking idiot would try to draw some sort of ironic line between the high cost and power of an American destroyer and the fragile thread of human contact by which a single American life is hanging. As if to say, Oh, we have all these nukes, but were powerless against four guys with a knife to a man's throat, oh, we suck, oh, oh! God. Words fail me. I can't believe people still read that swill. Death to all newspapers.
Thursday, April 09, 2009
The Times Can Suck My Ass
I almost stopped blogging, didn't I? But then the New York Times leads the pirate story with
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Yer getting your wish, doll. The papers are dying. Still find the same shite on the intertubes.
I've lost faith in my beloved Times. I don't know if it's because so much of it appears to be written by 8th Graders chasing down that big "Pizza-in-the-cafeteria on-fridays" story, or maybe it's that the Sunday puzzle (which used to be an all-day and sometimes all-week diversion) has been so dumbed-down that I finish it before "Meet the Press" starts.
I could have gotten them the SAME destroyer for $400 million. I know a guy.
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