S L O W

Has it really been two weeks since I last vomited up some thoughts here? I guess there's nothing going on right now. I mean, they killed Zucchini or whatever his name is over there in Iraq, that was big news. When are you ever going to see the Corner and David Rees be happy about the same thing at the same time (too lazy to link - you should know how to get there by now)?

The World Cup is interesting, but I'm not one of those American guys who gets all soccer crazy all of the sudden every four years, and then mothballs his Galatasaray scarf once the damn thing ends (I know there's no reason to wear a scarf in June, but I've got nothing else here).

I do exhibit perverse interest in Ann Coulter, partly because I have a theory that she is some sort of post-modern comic actor (kind of like Sarah Silverman, but much punchier, and perhaps building towards a punchline that has been years in the making). No one can actually act the way AC (hey, same initials as another punchy bro, Al Cowlings!) does and get away with it. She's a bit like the kid you knew in high school who used to go up to girls and declare that "tits are beautiful" or say something else really stupid. You thought at the time, "Wow that's really ballsy. I could never get away with saying that. They'd kick me in the balls, or worse, tell my Mom. Then my Mom would kick me in the balls." But now you understand the joke was on you (and the girls, whose tits may or may not have been beautiful: that's the genius behind the statement). I'm digressing here. My point is that I don't think that Coulter believes what she says, but I don't believe that she doesn't believe it either, you follow me? I think she can say that some 9/11 widows who voted for Kerry are a bunch of harpies ("harpies"?), and get a bunch of people all upset and sell some books. I lack the imagination to predict what will be her next outspoken stance, but it might involve a knife, fork, some A1 sauce, and a certain "holy book". Someday, she may disclose to some hapless political junkie, who wasted years of his or her life hating Ann Coulter, that it was all a joke. Think about it.

So I guess that's interesting. I'm also interested by the fact that people will walk all the way up the escalator and then stop right before they get to the top, just to ride out that last four or five feet. In some parallel universe, that is the moral equivalent of killing your entire family.