While news shows are supposed to be written at a 6th-grade or lower level, the FOX News Channel snuck in a fancy word today, apoplectic, in describing the reaction of police to media discovering a tarot card outside of the school where a kid was hit by sniper fire the other day. Perhaps FOX is involved in some shady subminal scheme to enhance American vocabularies...

ap·o·plec·tic adj.
Of, resembling, or produced by apoplexy: an apoplectic fit.
Having or inclined to have apoplexy.
Exhibiting symptoms associated with apoplexy.
Extremely angry; furious: “members of Congress who otherwise become apoplectic about wasteful government spending” (Dan Morgan).

I just bought a car today. It's a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer. It is totally sweet. It is a car that a Ninja would drive. Check it out:

I just bought a car today. It's a 2003 Mitsubishi Lancer. It is totally sweet. It is a car that a Ninja would drive. Check it out:

Jim: go to the Mainichi Daily News and look at the photo essay. Your deepest fantasies have come to life. Non-Jim people may also enjoy these Japanese girls in geek video-game costumes.

And if you enjoy the occassional unintended double-entrendre headline, I might suggest the article Head teacher dealt blow by using schoolgirl prostitute. Holy Crap! This teacher was fined 50000 yen ($400) for using a child prostitue! That's it! Japan is phucked up!

Jim, when you're done with the Japanese site, you'll no doubt enjoy this Star Trek girl. She gets naked.

This Article from 60 Minutes is an incredible study of the Christian Right's fanatical support for Israel, which has had an important influence on White House policy. The fundamentalist Christian Right-wing has a strong lobby, partly because they tend to act in large numbers while the less fanatical American majority fails to provide any unified opposition to this radical influence. Their motivation is bizarre: "The Jews’ return to their ancient homeland – and sole ownership of the territories Arabs and Israelis both lay claim to - is a precondition for the second coming of Christ, according to the Fundamentalist Evangelical Christians’ interpretation of the Bible."

One person interviewed on the program said that Israel "sinned" by signing the Oslo accords, because God's will clearly specifies that they must conquer all of the Biblical Israel and eliminate the Palestinians. Does anyone else see the fallacious circularity in this? The Jews return to Israel is a sign of fullfilled prophesy, which they take as validation for the Bible. Therefore, since the Bible is the validated word of God, Jews must act to fulfill the prophesies as specified or God will punish them. What's the significance of prophesy if you have to act so as to deliberately carry it out? Is the book of Revelations supposed to be a set of futuristic visions or an instruction book for the end of the world? The latter view is held by some fundamentalist groups, which is scary. There are folks out there who believe good Christians are obligated to create the events of Revelation in order to bring about the second coming of Christ.

Christianity is the most dangerous threat to the US today.