Remainders: It Is, Indeed, a Great Country
•Low Culture has it's own take on the slow news week: "Where the fuck in Africa or wherever is this so-called "Indonesia", and why are they flying planes there?" [ Low Culture ]
•"Fewer things are funnier than the clash of two cultures. Take the permissive West and Fundamentalist Islam. Those two would clash hilariously! Actually, that's not so hilarious." [ Gawker ]
•Dude, we're going to Disneyland: "Merriam-Webster's Word of the Year 2004: Blog noun [short for Weblog]." [ M-W ]
•Hitch asked to save US military from itself: "I thought, 'Surely the U.S. military can't be in that much trouble'...Is it a great country, or what?" [ Page Six ]