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Regarding recent incidents of crazy talk involving Dick Durbin and Karl Rove, we here at Mossback Culture don’t endorse the current trend of calling for apologies and resignations on the basis of insensitive remarks. We believe that all Americans have an obligation to toughen-up a little and not take words as if they were actual, you know, bombs or something.

If you don’t like what these bastards say, vote them (or in Rove’s case, their boss) out of office. But don’t tell me how freaking “offended” you were by some asshole’s “insensitivity” in a time of war or I’ll kick your ass.

Now if you want to complain about beheadings, I’m with you.

This is a crying shame. Kinky is a Plan II alumnus from UT who’s fallen so low he appeared on TV with skanky Malkin. I don’t know what that boy was thinking.

OK, actually I do: Kinky never was one to look down his nose at a skank…that doesn’t sound right. He never was one to put on airs around the common people…no, that’s not it either. We’ll have to go all the way back to his sarong-wearing Peace Corps period to make sense of this, for sure. Sigrid would understand.

With Rasheed, McDyess, and Billups in foul trouble – and Billups unable to beat the tenacious defense of Parker and Bowen – the Pistons didn’t have enough bench to beat the Spurs, so the Good Guys won another.

We’re going to see this matchup many more times in years to come.

I wonder how well the Spurs would play with a true point guard like Billups instead of Parker, who’s really more of a shooting guard.

SI blogged Game Seven.

Now on to Wimbledon and the College World Series.

Arundhati Roy and some of her closest friends are staging a Kangaroo Kourt in Istanbul that promises to put the Conyers Pretend Impeachment Hearing to shame. The goal is to say a lot of really, really nasty things about Chimpy McBushitler without once mentioning Mr.Hussein by name.

Roy says the legitimacy of her Kourt derives from universal principles of morality, such as:

* the duty of all people of conscience to take action against wars of aggression, war crimes, crimes against humanity and other breaches of international law;

For some reason this duty was suspended during Saddam’s reign, but Roy doesn’t address that minor little detail.

H/T Jodie Evans, professional moonbat.

This is the most hilarious thing I’ve seen in a long time: Tom Hayden, notorious 60s guy and lover of all things Marxist, has a blog in which he reveals (big surprise) that Iraq is a big, fat, quagmire just like Vietnam:

There are three scenarios to prepare for:

First, the US occupation may collapse with the defeat of the US-trained and US-financed Iraqi security forces. The answer to the Times question – what do they want? – can be inferred from the battlefield. “They” want to force the US conventional forces into an impasse, then destroy the US strategy of “Iraqization”, of substituting Iraqi blood for American blood. The insurgents probably are closer to this outcome than the American media will report. If Iraqi soldiers and police cannot be sufficiently motivated to kill other Iraqis, the client regime will collapse and sue for peace, an extremely dangerous situation.

Second, and most likely, an indefinite quagmire will continue for the time. The insurgency will go on. The 150,000 American troops will remain, frustrated bbut not defeated. By next year, the number of dead American soldiers and military contractors will pass 2,500, the number of wounded 20,000. The client regime will not extend its authority – not to mention basic services – to a majority of Iraqis. American diplomats will be isolated, and world public opinion will descend to new levels of disgust with all things American. This means a tough year for President Bush in next year’s Congressional elections. Even if the Democratic Party remains silent, increasing numbers of American voters will favor something like immediate withdrawal.

Third, facing quagmire, the US will escalate – the policy which was followed in Vietnam. This escalation could come any week now; with Israeli collaboration, the US bombs Iran. Or the US bombs North Korea. Or another possibility: somehow American citizens are attacked again due to an intelligence “lapse”. In any scenario, the immediate political result would be renewal of the draft, which would lessen the pressures on the Pentagon in Iraq.

You can’t make shit up that’s funnier than this. Like Karl Rove said: “Liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers, conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared for war.”

If you substitute “Tom Haydens” for liberals and “most people” for conservatives you’ve got it right.

Well actually, you see, there ARE:

Islamic militants planned to detonate an explosion that would have sent a cloud of toxic chemicals across Jordan, causing death, blindness, and sickness, a chemical expert testified in a military court Wednesday in Amman. Col. Najeh al-Azam was giving evidence in the trial of 13 men alleged to have planned what would have been the first chemical attack by the al-Qaeda terror group. In his televised confession, prime defendant Azmi Al-Jayousi said his group had plotted the attack under instruction from al-Qaeda’s leader in Iraq, Abu-Musab al-Zarqawi.

Oops.

When Rasheed plays well, the Pistons play well:

With the Pistons clinging to an 89-86 lead with just under two minutes to play, Ben Wallace elevated high to block Manu Ginobili’s driving layup attempt at the rim. Detroit then ran a pick-and-roll at the other end, with Rasheed Wallace (right) setting a bone-crunching pick on Tony Parker to free up Chauncey Billups for a drive to the basket. Billups’ shot rimmed out but Rasheed slipped in for a killer put-back that silenced the SBC Center crowd and forced Spurs coach Gregg Popovich to signal for a timeout. San Antonio would never get closer the rest of the way. It was one of several clutch plays down the stretch by Rasheed, who bounced back nicely from his Game 5 screw-up to help Detroit keep alive its season.

In game 7 we’ll probably see him crack under pressure, but it’s going to be a fun game.

This is downright sickening:

TOPOCK, Ariz. — In the Mojave Desert, just west of the California-Arizona border, an ancient pattern of lines inscribed on the desert floor marks out the pathway to heaven for a small group of American Indians.

Once covering 50 acres, the so-called Topock Maze is held sacred by the Fort Mojave tribe as a place of final atonement, the destination of a soul’s lifetime journey along the Colorado River from Spirit Mountain, 40 miles to the north in Nevada.

These days, however, tribe members say that modern civilization — in the form of a Pacific Gas & Electric Co. water treatment plant — is blocking their road to the afterlife. The tribe claims that the plant, completed but not yet operating, is close enough to a surviving portion of the maze to disrupt their spiritual journeys. It is suing the utility and state regulators in an effort to have the facility torn down or moved.

It’s revenge for the smallpox.

And on another front, we see the same sort of squirreliness:

When a science museum is loath to show an IMAX film because it refers to evolution, we need to ponder the role of religion in our society.

“Volcanoes of the Deep Sea” has been rejected by some IMAX theaters in the South out of fear that it might offend people with fundamental religious beliefs, The Associated Press reported.

“If it’s not going to sell, we’re not going to take it,” said Lisa Buzzelli, director of an IMAX theater in Charleston. “Many people here believe in creationism, not evolution.

How do we defeat religiously-motivated terrorists when we have this sort of crap in our own backyards?

Fortunately, the NBA owners and union made a deal and averted a strike:

NEW YORK (AP) — NEW YORK (AP) — A one-year increase in the minimum age to be eligible to play in the NBA was part of a new six-year collective bargaining tentatively agreed to Tuesday by owners and players, averting the possibility of a lockout.

Why is it that strikes are the only things that ever get “averted” anyway? Meanwhile, the Spurs have a chance to seal the championship tonight, thanks to some superhuman play by Big Shot Bob Horry in game 5, capped by a three-pointer with seconds to go in overtime.

BSB saved Tim Duncan’s bacon because the star was struggling on his rickety ankles in the OT. I think the Spurs will win tonight, but if the Pistons can avert elimination all bets are off for game 7. It seems like I should have predicted this to be a 6 game series but I don’t think I ever got around to it.

Game Four was another blowout, this one by 31 pts. The Spurs are in big trouble even though the series is now best of three and they have home court advantage:

Once again, it was a double-digit victory — the series’ fourth in as many games. The difference this time was the degree of dominance shown by the Pistons, a mix of suffocating defense and varied offense that left the Spurs completely befuddled.

Spurs coach Gregg Popovich told his team at halftime that they had played the worst half of basketball he’d ever seen by an NBA playoff team.

The longer last night’s game progressed, the further behind the Spurs fell. It was as if the Pistons were doing voodoo on our heroes. Let’s hope they find some offense in game five or the return to SA is going to suck.

As we’ve said before, one of the keys to this series – perhaps the biggest – is Rasheed Wallace’s head. He’s capable of shot-blocks, steals, assists, and three-pointers when his head is right. But just a little frustration and he melts down like Dick Durbin. He’s been together the last couple games, and you see the results. Popvich needs to figure out how to press Rasheed’s meltdown switch. San Antonio’s lack of a real point guard was plenty apparent last night as well, even with Udrih in the game.