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...campaign closed, a common fantasy among some of McCain's old associates went like this: the old bomber pilot would pull back on the stick before Election Day, right his wobbly plane and mount a clean push for victory. Instead, McCain just corkscrewed into the ground. And so it will be important to see what lessons McCain learns from his campaign and what role he plays as a member of a shrunken minority in Congress. Will he harbor bitter memories of his defeat and the poor treatment he feels he received from his old friends in the national media...
...plot to blow up Madison Square Garden. But in offering Malone a re-education in "patriotism" and letting him survive the movie, it's nicer to Moore than the Trey Parker-Matt Stone marionette movie Team America: World Police was. In that one, Moore was bent on destroying Mount Rushmore and so became a suicide bomber...
...Ladies and gentlemen, we interrupt our program of dance music to bring you a special bulletin from the Intercontinental Radio News. At twenty minutes before eight, Central Time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the Earth with enormous velocity...
...Where the City Came From Your skimmer item on Sarah Vowell's The Wordy Shipmates [Oct. 20] states that the phrase "city on a hill" was coined by John Winthrop, the first governor of Massachusetts. Not so. Winthrop was quoting Jesus' Sermon on the Mount: "[The righteous] are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden" (Matthew 5:14). Nathaniel Jewell, Adelaide, South Australia...
Analysts in the region suspect that the decision to mount a cross-border raid into Syria was driven more by the military needs of Army commanders in Iraq than by political calculations from Washington. According to the analysts, the Joint Special Operations Command has considerable autonomy in choosing missions in the Iraq and Afghanistan theaters. "This is coming out of the Army. I don't think this is a parting shot from the Bush Administration," Tabler says...