TW3 — for the Faithful

December 7th, 2007

Sorry to get to this so late in the week — settling back into the Pea Patch, under direct fire from winter weather [typically early now, I should have expected it] preoccupied me. So for those of you who missed it … here ’tis.

That Was The Week That Was … full of transition, trouble and trial. And — jeez! Can’t Rodney King EVER catch a break?

Jude

HARPER’S WEEKLY REVIEW
December 4, 2007

More than 80 French police officers were injured in
clashes with youths firing shotguns in the Paris
banlieues. Voters in Venezuela narrowly defeated a
referendum on changing their constitution to abolish
presidential term limits and vastly increase President
Hugo Chavez’s executive powers. President Pervez Musharraf
quit his role as chief of Pakistan’s army. Senator Hillary
Clinton praised her campaign staff for “their
extraordinary courage and coolness under some very
difficult pressures and dangerous situations” after a man
wearing a fake bomb made from road flares took several
Clinton staffers hostage in New Hampshire. The
hostage-taker, Leeland Eisenberg, had seen an ad spot in
which a New Hampshire man said Clinton had helped him get
health insurance. “He kept expressing he wanted to get
help,” Eisenberg’s stepson explained. “He wasn’t able to
get it because he didn’t have insurance, he didn’t have
money.” The Department of Homeland Security was asking
firefighters to look for signs of suspicious activity
while putting out fires, and Pentagon officials announced
that 5,000 U.S. troops would withdraw from Iraq next
month. Farmers in Afghanistan were growing fewer poppies
and more pot, and the child stars of the movie “The Kite
Runner” were sent from Kabul to a luxury hotel in the
United Arab Emirates after threats were made to their
safety. “The best possible outcome,” said a consultant to
Paramount, “would be in 20 years to see a ‘Where Are They
Now’ piece on VH1.” Khaled Hosseini, the author of the
novel on which the film is based and a resident of
California, implored the United States not to abandon
Afghanistan. Without U.S. support, he wrote, “Afghanistan
is doomed.”

In Khartoum, thousands of Sudanese protesters armed with
clubs and knives called for the execution of Gillian
Gibbons, a British teacher convicted of insulting Islam
after she permitted her students to name their class teddy
bear “Muhammad”; Gibbons, pardoned by the president of
Sudan, was released from jail and fled to England. A San
Diego man was arrested for attempting to purchase
black-bear gallbladders, and fears of a bear market forced
Bear Stearns to lay off 4 percent of its staff. North of
the Arctic Circle, the remote and entirely lightless town
of Narvik, Norway, was further depressed by its loss of a
$64 million investment in the American subprime-mortgage
market. Fears about the American economy had reportedly
slowed sales of recreational vehicles, with the exception
of the “biggest, baddest” models, which get seven miles to
the gallon, cost up to $1.7 million, and include such
amenities as Italian marble floors and a lock with an
electronic palm reader. A 3.3 pound truffle sold for
$330,000 at an auction held simultaneously in Macau,
London, and Florence. The winning bidder, Macau casino
owner Stanley Ho, outbid the British artist Damien Hirst
and Sheikh Bin Zayed of Abu Dhabi. Food banks across the
United States, facing critical shortages, were forced to
distribute emergency rations intended for disaster relief,
and researchers reported that sophisticated neurological
scans reveal anorexic brains to show high levels of
activity in the caudate, the region of the brain concerned
with outcome and planning.

In Angola, an outbreak of acute neurological syndrome was
attributed to high levels of sodium bromide, an industrial
chemical, in kitchen salt. A physician and amateur
historian from Palo Alto contended that Abraham Lincoln
suffered from the rare genetic disease MEN 2B, which he
believes was responsible for Lincoln’s great height, lumpy
lips, and the early deaths of three of his four sons. Evel
Knievel died, Rodney King bicycled home after being shot
in the face, and Susan Bateman, a martial-arts instructor
in Virginia, was arrested for kicking an 11-year-old
student in the gut more than 200 times as the class
counted. Bateman issued a challenge during class to see
how many kicks her students could sustain; the boy
suffered internal injuries and a broken rib. Rome’s
traffic and parking chief was fired after he parked his
red Alfa Romeo in a no-parking zone and displayed a
handicapped permit belonging to an 86-year-old woman. A
Chilean prostitute auctioned 27 hours of sex to raise
money for a disabled children’s charity, saying that she
wanted “to contribute with my work to a purpose that
touches me deeply,” and serial flasher Michael Carney of
Fleetham Grove, England, pleaded unsuccessfully that
because his penis was “so much smaller than average,” he
could not have committed his crimes. Astronomers
discovered a one-billion-light-year-wide pocket full of
nothing in the sky.

– Gemma Seiff
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/12/WeeklyReview2007-12-04

“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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