Literal Barrage

I've been sick in addition to working on that super-secret WordPress-related project this week, so posting has been necessarily light. In a ploy to make up for that lack, I present my well-nigh bi-weekly slacker post, comprised primarily of video links I've found to be of an amusing and/or interesting nature.
First up, in honor [...]

John Street, defender of good government:

Earlier this month, when Mayor Street announced an aggressive new city plan to go after tax scofflaws, he warned: "We will spare no one."

Certainly, someone taking so bold a stance on other peoples' motes must have examined his own eye for signs of planks, no?

He could have started by looking [...]

Columbia University president Lee Bollinger showed himself to be a classless buffoon yesterday, despite pronouncements from some corners of a flawless "rope-a-dope" maneuver.
Let's get a few things straight. First: he (Bollinger) and his University extended the invitation to Mad Mahmoud. They (Columbia and Bollinger) opened their doors to the figurehead of [...]

Much virtual ink has been spilled over Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's request to visit the site of the World Trade Center during his visit to NYC, though I haven't seen anyone suggest the following:

Ahmadinejad believes in the Hidden 12th Imam whose reemergence will bring about the end of this current world order and the reemergence of the [...]

First off, the bad:
2007 Week 2 Fantasy Football Results
League: Fulford's Heroes
Deep Fried Turkey defeats Hiphopopotamuses, 114.30 to 106.40.
*sigh* Jemaine's luck runs out in the second week. I forgot to start Randy Moss who would have netted me another 15 points and secured a win. Them's the breaks, I guess.
Next, the good:
League: RSGFFCL
Rhymenocerouses defeat [...]

The Treasury Dept. is looking to issue new $5 bills (since apparently the current bill is being bleached and then reprinted as counterfeit $100s in staggering numbers) and, to combat the forgers, they have initiated changes to make Lincoln's currency more in line with other recently-revised issues (from the $100s all the way down to [...]

This report has been making the blogospheric rounds today and it is, well, damning of our educational system's ability to impart civic knowledge, to put it bluntly.
Simply stated, when presented with a 60 question test covering basic U.S. history, civics and political philosophy, Harvard seniors scored best with a D+ average. All other schools' [...]