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Sunday, August 01, 2004

The Lamb William Blake      Little Lamb, who made thee    Does thou know who made thee Gave thee life & bid thee feed. By the stream & o'er the mead; Gave thee clothing of delight, Softest clothing woolly bright; Gave thee such a tender voice. Making all the vales rejoice:    Little Lamb who made thee    Does thou know who made thee      Little Lamb I'll tell thee,    Little Lamb I'll tell thee; He is called by thy name, For he calls himself a Lamb: He is meek & he is mild, He became a little child I a child & thou a lamb, We are called by His name,    Little Lamb God bless thee,    Little Lamb God bless thee.   (Paul made the gravy)   11:04:47 PM    comment []

Here’s the plan…shoot up the boneless leg of lamb with the garlic/rosemary vinaigrette, then roll it it sea salt and molcajete ground pepper. After it warms up a bit a room temperature, we’ll pop it the Ron Popeil Showtime rotisserie and see what happens.   1:11:15 PM    comment []

If you’re so inclined, schlep on over to The Independent and get a month’s access to Robert Fisk for free (the nominal cost is £5, but the first month is free). You may already recognize "Fisk" as a verb. It is defined as such in The Devil’s Dictionary (version 2.0): fisk, verb To refute an author’s willful and malicious ignorance with the objective, dispassionate fact of one’s own willful and malicious ignorance. To understand how he became a verb, check out this article at normblog. If you check out the other subscription services you will notice that Fisk is in a category all by himself. He deserves that. He is one of the most knowledgeable (if not most universally popular) journalists covering the Middle East. A good reason for signing up today is to read the rest of this article, the one with the disturbing headline: 'Can't Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can't Bush?' The Prime Minister has accused some journalists of almost wanting a disaster to happen in Iraq. Robert Fisk, who has spent the past five weeks reporting from the deteriorating and devastated country, says the disaster has already happened, over and over again 01 August 2004 The war is a fraud. I'm not talking about the weapons of mass destruction that didn't exist. Nor the links between Saddam Hussein and al-Qa'ida which didn't exist. Nor all the other lies upon which we went to war. I'm talking about the new lies. For just as, before the war, our governments warned us of threats that did not exist, now they hide from us the threats that do exist. Much of Iraq has fallen outside the control of America's puppet government in Baghdad but we are not told. Hundreds of attacks are made against US troops every month. But unless an American dies, we are not told. This month's death toll of Iraqis in Baghdad alone has now reached 700 - the worst month since the invasion ended. But we are not told. The stage management of this catastrophe in Iraq was all too evident at Saddam Hussein's "trial". Not only did the US military censor the tapes of the event. Not only did they effectively delete all sound of the 11 other defendants. But the Americans led Saddam Hussein to believe - until he reached the courtroom - that he was on his way to his execution. Indeed, when he entered the room he believed that the judge was there to condemn him to death. This, after all, was the way Saddam ran his own state security courts. No wonder he initially looked "disorientated" - CNN's helpful description - because, of course, he was meant to look that way. We had made sure of that. Which is why Saddam asked Judge Juhi: "Are you a lawyer? ... Is this a trial?" And swiftly, as he realised that this really was an initial court hearing - not a preliminary to his own hanging - he quickly adopted an attitude of belligerence. But don't think we're going to learn much more about Saddam's future court appearances. Salem Chalabi, the brother of convicted fraudster Ahmad and the man entrusted by the Americans with the tribunal, told the Iraqi press two weeks ago that all media would be excluded from future court hearings. And I can see why. Because if Saddam does a Milosevic, he'll want to talk about the real intelligence and military connections of his regime - which were primarily with the United States.   8:32:12 AM    comment []

The Most Beautiful Word   In German, it’s easy because they can attach adjectives like freight cars on a train, until the tracks vibrate harmoniously as it passes by. In English, it’s more difficult because we separate modifiers to give them equal status with the nouns and verbs they grace. James Joyce claimed that “cuspidor” was the most beautiful word, despite the slimy visual; Tolkien liked the combination “cellar door.”   In the Germanic spirit of techie concatenation, I nominate “WarmSoapyWater.” The visual is more hygienic than the cuspidor and nobody has a cellar door anymore.   The water is not hot, so it will not burn you. It is not cold or lukewarm. It wants to caress you and cleanse you. Water is a prime necessity of all life, plant or animal – but you do not drink WarmSoapyWater. It is not a necessity. It is a simple luxury. 1:48:39 AM    comment []