Mark it Ground Zero, Dude

“A fine silt on every mantel from Hell’s Kitchen to Brooklyn…”–Ani DiFranco

This is precisely what I’ve asked a few people in the hope that they’d hear how ridiculous they sound: how much of NYC should be off-limits to mosques, but not to other houses of worship? Based on this, maybe that strategy doesn’t work either.

@finette: Oh honey, no. Logic is a useless weapon in this war.

@finette: Today’s Satire is Tomorrow’s Headline.

Also, all indoor dust is made up in part of shed human skin. Some of those people are dead now…but only 9/11 dust is special I guess.

@Mistress Cynica: *Sigh* I know…but nevertheless I found myself registering to comment on the Seattle Times site the other day to berate some idiot who said: “They can build a mosque at ground zero when we can build churches in Iraq!” It’s only got one of the oldest continuous Christian populations in the world, after all.

ALA held a Koran read-out this weekend, originally planned to coincide with The Roast. At least I know I’m in the right profession.

The Faroes are calling. Yoo hoo, they cry. Come to me!

@Benedick — kay. Need to know five words in Faroese to make this work.

(1) Hello.

(2) Thanks.

(3) Please.

(4) Help.

(5) Fuck.

The rest of the vocab can come later. Pointing, gesturing and gently rubbing suggestively will suffice so long as these five words are in play. Drop some science on me, bro.

(Hell: even if we don’t jump ship, knowing these translated words will add to my useless-knowledge bank.)

@chicago bureau: The head of state there is called the Pharoe.

@Benedick Arnuldsson: The Faroes are calling.

Would that be the legendary Faroe Moan?

@nojo: No, it’s the legendary joke, “How do you make a faroe moan?”

Predictable GOP tantrum over the mosque – does anybody care that we here in Manhattan … don’t care? We’ve got mosques all over the place. Feh.

@chicago bureau: They all speak English. Albeit charmingly accented. We can open a gin mill and cater to Princess line cruises.

@Benedick Arnuldsson:

Are they a lovely honey-brown color? Do they have almond-shaped eyes? Do they like middle-aged white guys?

My teevee boyfriend Jon Hamm on Daily Show!!! Could he be any hotter and sweet?? And with my comedy boyfriend Jon Stewart!

I was in airplanes much of today. So I was thinking, how much crazy shit can happen in just one day when I’m not plugged into the net. Then I get home and fire up Stinque and get the answer: multiple 747s full!!

@Dodgerblue: We missed you.

@Dodgerblue: And we only got half of it. Didn’t even touch Tokyo Rove, except in the comments.

Okay, enough: That FloTV ad with the UO Duck? That mascot outfit hasn’t been that clean since the day it was made.

‘s a league game, Smokey.

@Tommmcatt Cannot Be Arsed To Think About Sharon Angle: On my cab ride out to Dulles — a long one, as most of you probably know — the cabbie had Rush Limbaugh on the radio. I listened in awe to a solid hour of ranting without a single statement of alleged fact pass his fat lips without being prefaced by “everybody knows” or something similar. This fat fuck (10 pounds of shit in a 5 pound bag, per Al Franken) is smart — he is playing to and and giving support and legitimacy to his listeners’ grossest emotions of racism, hate and inadeqacy in a way that transcends language as, say, the melody of the Horst Wessel song fired up the Nazis. Plus, most of the ads were by him: “Use the code ‘Rush’ and you’ll get an extra 10% off your Big Boy diapers!”

@Dodger: A cab to Dulles? My aren’t you all Mr Fancy-Pants? I always get stuck in some Super Shuttle blue van making 26 stops before getting there

@SanFranLefty: I got carsick just reading that. When they extend the Metro out to Dulles, I’ll be on it.