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August 22nd, 2007

That Was The Week That Was … expensive in blood and treasure; but that’s not “new” news … more like the “new true.” As usual, there are fascinating snips here, and on a mundane level, I worry about the baby in China named “@” — at least Prince had a qualifier when he renamed himself a symbol … “the artist formally known as…”

I will also make a note not to purchase a pet camel.

Jude

HARPERS WEEKLY REVIEW

Jittery global markets brought on by the subprime mortgage
crisis led the Federal Reserve to cut its discount rate on
loans to banks by half a percentage point. Citing America’s
$1 trillion debt to China, Senator Joe Biden warned, “We
have to get off sucking off of that breast which is
China.” It was reported that a South Carolina small-parts
supplier run by twin sisters had cheated the Pentagon
out of $20.5 million in shipping costs; two 19-cent
washers sent to an Army base in Texas, for instance,
incurred a $998,798 charge. Jenna Bush, the younger of the
President’s twin daughters by one minute, got engaged to
tobacco heir Henry Hager. Baptist pastor Wiley S. Drake
instructed his Buena Park, California, congregation to
pray for the deaths of two members of Americans United
for Separation of Church and State. “Let his days be few,”
read the prayer, “and let another take his office. Let his
children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.” It emerged
that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act will allow
the National Security Agency to intercept telephone calls,
emails, and other Internet communications made by British
citizens across American networks. The CIA was editing
Wikipedia; one CIA entry concerned lyrics in a song from
the television show “Buffy the Vampire Slayer.” A CIA
spokesperson responding to queries about the edits stated,
“I cannot confirm that the traffic you cite came from
agency computers. I’d like in any case to underscore a
far larger and more significant point that no one should
doubt or forget: The CIA has a vital mission in protecting
the United States, and the focus of this agency is there,
on that decisive work.”

Interpol sought the arrest of Saddam Hussein’s eldest
daughter and his first wife for allegedly providing
support to Iraqi insurgents. In northern Iraq, a series of
bombings targeting the Yazidi Kurds killed 344 people. A
1994 interview with Dick Cheney regarding the first Gulf
war was released to the web. Asked whether U.S. forces
should have invaded Baghdad in an attempt to oust Saddam
Hussein, Cheney said, “No . . . we would have been all
alone . . . It would have been a U.S . occupation of
Iraq. Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down
Saddam Hussein’s government, then what are you going to
put in its place?” Cheney described Iraq as a “quagmire,”
predicting sectarian conflict and the pointless loss of
American lives. “How many additional dead Americans is
Saddam worth? Our judgment was, uh, not very many, and
I think we got it right.” A federal jury convicted Jose
Padilla on terrorism conspiracy charges, while six of
the Bali bombers got their jail terms reduced for good
behavior. Two Manhattan firefighters died fighting a
blaze in an abandoned skyscraper next to Ground Zero. A
car bomb in Kandahar, Afghanistan, killed 13 civilians,
and toy manufacturer Mattel recalled 436,000 miniature
cars shaped like the character Sarge from the animated film
“Cars” because they were coated with lead paint.

Scientists analyzing the urine of the lonely found higher
levels of epinephrine, a “fight or flight” chemical that
contributes to physiological decay over time; a study
suggested that women with breast implants were three
times more likely to commit suicide than those without;
and the Army’s suicide rate was at an all-time high,
leading the Army to hold a poster contest. A Massachusetts
man pleaded guilty to intentionally eating glass in over
a dozen restaurants to collect insurance compensation. An
earthquake along the southern coast of Peru killed 510
people. German physicists claimed to have broken the speed
of light, and Scottish physicists reversed the Casimir
force to make objects levitate. David Beckham scored on
a free kick during his first game for the LA Galaxy, and
astronomers observed a dying star named Mira shedding a
dazzling, comet-like tail. A study found that mothers who
ate junk food while pregnant predisposed their children to
obesity. After widespread flooding, 53,000 Bangladeshis
contracted diarrhea, an Australian woman was crushed to
death by her sexually aroused pet camel, and a couple in
China named their baby “@.”

– Gemma Sieff

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/08/WeeklyReview2007-08-2

“So keep fightin’ for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don’t you forget to have fun doin’ it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin’ ass and celebratin’ the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.”
~ Molly Ivins, 1944 - 2007

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