The Rat
Tuesday, July 27, 2004
      ( 5:14 PM ) The Rat  
YARD-SALE TIPS from the Onion. Third from the bottom is the best.


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      ( 3:11 PM ) The Rat  
HAVING A BAD DAY? At least you're not this woman.


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      ( 3:10 PM ) The Rat  
MINER FINDS 182-CARAT DIAMOND.


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      ( 1:56 PM ) The Rat  
DUCK! The Rat just received a spam e-mail headlined, "You are about to become an ordained minister."


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      ( 1:26 PM ) The Rat  
EXCELLENT CAPTION on the top photo here.


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      ( 1:23 PM ) The Rat  
THIS is just so wrong!!


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Thursday, July 22, 2004
      ( 7:34 PM ) The Rat  
CLICK HERE AND HERE for two excellent headlines.


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      ( 7:25 PM ) The Rat  
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and the half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.
Yeats


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Wednesday, July 21, 2004
      ( 1:50 PM ) The Rat  
FOR YOUR DELECTATION, here is a photograph of Rick Brookhiser. Don't miss the comments section.


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Tuesday, July 20, 2004
      ( 12:15 PM ) The Rat  
SCHROEDER HAILS MEMORY OF HITLER'S WOULD-BE KILLERS. It's about $#@! time.
 
Sixty years after a failed bid by German officers to kill Adolf Hitler, Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder marked the growing recognition of the plotters by calling them patriots who tried to save Germany from moral ruin. 
 
On July 20, 1944, they detonated a bomb inside Hitler's eastern headquarters and tried to stage a coup d'etat in Berlin. Four died from the blast, but Hitler emerged almost unscathed, dooming the coup and its architects. The Nazi reprisals saw some 140 plotters executed and thousands of arrests.

In the postwar years, the conspirators were regarded by many in West Germany as betrayers of the Fatherland, only to be dismissed by subsequent generations of leftist students as conservatives who had collaborated with the fascist Nazi regime...

The driving force of the assassination attempt was aristocratic colonel Claus von Stauffenberg, who planted the bomb inside a briefcase in Hitler's "Wolf's Lair" in what is now Poland and was executed by firing squad some 12 hours later.


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Monday, July 19, 2004
      ( 11:45 PM ) The Rat  
TWIN KOALAS! Because, you know, why not.


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Sunday, July 18, 2004
      ( 6:57 AM ) The Rat  
Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.
John Oliver Hobbes


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Thursday, July 15, 2004
      ( 2:00 PM ) The Rat  
OOOOH...

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      ( 1:08 PM ) The Rat  
As late as 1913, Max Beerbohm was still able to mock the vogue for Russian literature by creating an all-purpose Russian writer named Kolniyatsch, of whom Beerbohm wrote: 'his burning faith in a personal Devil, his frank delight in earthquakes and pestilences, and his belief that every one but himself will be brought back to life in time to be frozen in the next glacial epoch, seem rather to stamp him as an optimist.'

—Joseph Epstein, The New Criterion, October 1992 (via Otto)

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Wednesday, July 14, 2004
      ( 2:05 PM ) The Rat  
CELEBRATE CHEESE-EATING SURRENDER MONKEY DAY by reading this Rob Long piece about the French, or by looking at some pictures of Paris. Also, here are some drink recipes.

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      ( 2:02 PM ) The Rat  
"VA-VA VOOM," "SPEED DATING," "DESIGNER BABY," and other words newly added to the Oxford Concise English Dictionary.

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      ( 2:00 PM ) The Rat  
"AN OBVIOUS ANCESTOR of The Way of the Rat is Machiavelli's The Prince..."

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      ( 1:16 PM ) The Rat  
HEY! YOU! GET OFF OF MY CLOUD...

A storm is brewing in China as drought-plagued regions accuse each other of stealing clouds for rain-seeding.

With the help of modern technology, scientists can fire rockets filled with various substances into light, fluffy clouds to make them rain. "But the practice has caused considerable controversy in recent days, with some saying that one area's success with rain has meant taking moisture meant for one place and giving it to another," the China Daily said on Wednesday.

The row over rainclouds was particularly heated in several cities in central Henan province.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004
      ( 7:35 PM ) The Rat  
BILL MAHER SPENDS ALL NIGHT ARGUING WITH REPUBLICAN HOOKER. Via the Onion. (This week's horoscopes are also pretty good, especially for Virgo and Sagittarius.)

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      ( 2:43 PM ) The Rat  
ANTI-SOCIAL SHEEP TERRORIZE AND DIVIDE NEIGHBORHOOD.

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      ( 2:27 PM ) The Rat  
"I don't believe in jealousy, it's for the weak. One thing though—touch his dick and he's dead!"
A Fish Called Wanda

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Saturday, July 10, 2004
      ( 11:50 AM ) The Rat  
The charms of a passing woman are usually in direct relation to the speed of her passing.
—Proust

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      ( 11:50 AM ) The Rat  
IT'S PROUST'S BIRTHDAY! Here is a link to a general site of things Proust-related. And here is a link to Monty Python's "All-England Summarize Proust Competition" sketch.

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Thursday, July 08, 2004
      ( 1:27 PM ) The Rat  
BEHINDTHENAME.COM.

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      ( 12:08 PM ) The Rat  
...a prison cell of paradise, with yellow window shades pulled down to create a morning illusion of Venice and sunshine when actually it was Pennsylvania and rain.
Lolita

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Wednesday, July 07, 2004
      ( 3:11 PM ) The Rat  
HEH.

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      ( 12:31 PM ) The Rat  
HMMM...

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      ( 1:56 AM ) The Rat  
A MORE USEFUL PAGE than you might think.

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      ( 12:42 AM ) The Rat  
POT ACTIVISTS FORGET TO FILE SIGNATURE PETITIONS.

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      ( 12:42 AM ) The Rat  
NOW, THIS IS A HEADLINE. Thanks to GV for the link.

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      ( 12:40 AM ) The Rat  
The piano is an orchestra with 88... things, you know.
—Vladimir Horowitz

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Tuesday, July 06, 2004
      ( 12:55 PM ) The Rat  
FAGGOTS IN THE NEWS!

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      ( 12:20 PM ) The Rat  
A NEW MAN IN BARBIE'S LIFE.

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      ( 12:15 PM ) The Rat  
LISA SIMPSON TO ISSUE CRY FOR CORNISH FREEDOM.

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      ( 12:02 AM ) The Rat  
THE WORLD IS WIDE.

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Monday, July 05, 2004
      ( 11:49 PM ) The Rat  
RESULTS FROM the fifth annual Wife Carrying World Championships.

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      ( 11:47 PM ) The Rat  
"[Music] is a terrible instrument in the hands of any chance user! Take that Kreutzer Sonata, for instance, how can that first presto be played in a drawing-room among ladies in low-necked dresses? To hear that played, to clap a little, and then to eat ices and talk of the latest scandal? Such things should only be played on certain important significant occasions, and then only when certain actions answering to such music are wanted; play it then and do what the music has moved you to..."
The Kreutzer Sonata

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Saturday, July 03, 2004
      ( 7:30 PM ) The Rat  
IN A WORD... astonishing.

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Friday, July 02, 2004
      ( 10:48 AM ) The Rat  
HEADLINE OF THE DAY.

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      ( 10:38 AM ) The Rat  
AND... the latest in rodential news from Tokyo.

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Thursday, July 01, 2004
      ( 12:00 PM ) The Rat  
If I make the lashes dark
And the eyes more bright
And the lips more scarlet,
Or ask if all be right
From mirror after mirror,
No vanity's displayed:
I'm looking for the face I had
Before the world was made.

What if I look upon a man
As though on my beloved,
And my blood be cold the while
And my heart unmoved?
Why should he think me cruel
Or that he is betrayed?
I'd have him love the thing that was
Before the world was made.

—William Butler Yeats

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A page I'm starting to get the overlords at EveTushnet.com to stop $#@! bugging me


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