D’oh-in’ it Oslo-style: According to the Hindustan Times, the Nobel committee says they’d revoke Shimon Peres’ Peace Prize if they could. Pity it doesn’t come with a big trophy or plaque; they could tell him he’s allowed to keep the award if he brains that f&#@ Sharon with it. (I figure it’s only fair after what Sharon’s people did to Rabin.) I have moved from being mighty tired of explaining how I can be both a Jew and non-Zionist to wondering how anyone could be both.

Not a Don Henley fan? Me either. Nevermind that. Read this.

Hey, this scientist says that the pancaked economy is GOOD for us. It’s healthier to be in a recession and marginally employed. All together, kids, the four-word debunk: HE HAS A JOB. So fuck him. Have all the professors in North America gone simultaneously stupid, or only the ones who talk to newspapers?

Another article on blogging, this one from the Ottawa Citizen — good overall, but marred by some yutz of an English professor complaining that all these bloggers obviously want to be on Jerry Springer, and proclaiming them sad publicity-seekers. Of course, he only does these interviews for the good of humanity, not to get his name in the paper or a clip in his CV or anything. And bloggers don’t even have to grovel for tenure… and who’s sad now?

Good news: The Net Economy, a nifty mag, did their Special Recovery Issue last week. Bad news: It’s just 44 pages, ads included. That can’t be happy.

I love experts. Every magazine journalist loves experts, as they are the people that say stuff to fill up all that nasty white space on the pages. So what was I to do when I found Mr. Magazine and his 30 Most Notable Launches of 2001? Forbidden Internet! Seed! Maxim Blender! See, you will gaze upon the site and be edified too. It’s quality like this, and punditry like that, that makes the American press the best-read, most literate, and most trustworthy in the world. I am all ashiver. Ooo.

(More Nuprin please?)

This kid is my new personal trainer. Damn.

The French don’t think a plane really hit the Pentagon on 11 September. Are you honestly going to make me go to the trouble of writing a punchline to this?

A poorly written, self-indulgent print article on how poorly written and self-indulgent blogs are? Oh the irony! Oh it is to laugh loudly over! For god’s sake someone stop me before I BUST A GUT!