Archive for June 23rd, 2010

Last Post Post For A While.

23rd June
2010
written by jed

Today is a full day. Two improv rehearsals (both in Manhattan), a trip to the post office, last-minute packing and an assortment of chores. And this, my trusty blog. Today’s Post is 104 pages. Let’s get to it.

CIVIL WAR!

Oval Office showdown over insults

General Stanley McChrystal gave an interview to Rolling Stone magazine wherein he insulted Vice President Biden and “Obama’s top aides.” Look, kids! Another old man who still can’t wrap his head around the concept of things having an infinite shelf-life! What you say in the heat of the moment (especially in front of a reporter who is writing an article about you) will reach millions whether you want it to or not. Same goes for McChrystal’s aides, who refer to National Security Adviser General Jim Jones as “[a] clown [who is] stuck in 1985.”

Churlie Hurt’s take on the matter? “You got to hand it to [McChrystal] for managing to accomplish one thing nobody has ever been able to do: He genuinely pissed off President Obama… A rage on the Richter scale we have never seen before from the professorial ‘no drama’ Obama.”

Someone else has praise for McChrystal: Afghan President Hamid Karzai. “He is the best commander the United States has sent to Afghanistan over the last nine years.”

That’s a fairly prominent red flag.

Early birthday present for Jed!

The state Appellate Division has overturned Dustin Dibble’s $2,300,000 award and thrown his entire lawsuit out.

Dibble, you may remember, was the drunk (0.18 — twice the legal limit) guy who fell on the tracks, got hit by an N train and lost one of his legs. He sued the MTA and won. Until now.

What say you, Dibble? “It wasn’t my choice to lose my leg.”

Nor was it the conductor’s choice to hit you, stupid.

“Port Authority police are on high alert today following what the agency believes is a ‘credible threat’ to its bridges and tunnels.”

The threat “may involve trucks carrying gasoline.”

It may also involve ninjas.

Jerry Seinfeld called Lady Gaga “a jerk.”

Way to stay relevent, Jer!

A federal judge has overruled Obama’s moratorium on deepwater drilling, calling it “arbitrary and capricious.”

You’d better pray that nothing goes wrong anywhere else, US District Judge Martin Feldman (who happens to own stock in the company [Transocean Ltd.] that owned the Deepwater Horizon rig responsible for the spill — this fact is NOT in today’s paper).

Michael Goodwin wants Obama to fire McChrystal (Put him in line of ‘fire’).

“Truth is no defense to [sic] insubordination. For the good of the troops… McChrystal must be sacked.”

Goodwin doesn’t have a problem with anything that was said by anyone in that Rolling Stone interview. But, on principle, he thinks McChrystal should be fired (even if it puts our troops in even more unnecessary harm).

I will not miss Michael Goodwin.

According to Page Six (today on page 12), Ronnie, Mike and Vinnie from Jersey Shore posed for the cover of this week’s Village Voice — but no one told them that it was their annual “Queer Issue.”

I have never loved the Voice more than I do right now.

Fun Fact: Three months before Shannon Price took her ex-husband (Gary Coleman) off of life support, he told a judge that she “has shown a tendency to damage, destroy and steal my property” and was issued a restraining order. But Coleman’s lawyer says that Coleman didn’t serve it to Price before it (and he) expired.

Christopher “Dudus” Coke has been apprehended in Jamaica.

Do you think he pronounces it “DUD-us” or “DOO-doos”?

The gored bullfighter gets the bottom half of page 24 (in full color).

“Legislators in Sullivan Island, South Carolina, are considering a law making it illegal to sing, whistle, yell, shout or holler if anybody nearby is annoyed.”

But then, how will people in South Carolina get dates?

Arthur Herman’s op-ed Unwelcome Truths defends McChrystal’s recent remarks.

“The fact is, the general may have done a great service for us all, including our troops in Afghanistan.”

Shut up, Arthur Herman.

The editorial Keep McChrystal says that Obama should, well, keep McChrystal. Why? “McChrystal has apologized” and “is best suited for the job.”

Someone please explain that to Michael Goodwin.

Aw, nertz.

Michelle Malkin is back with A Jobs-Killing Lie, applauding Martin Feldman’s veto of Obama’s drilling moratorium. “For all the other small people over whom the administration has run roughshod, let’s hope it sets a precedent.”

When BP calls victims of the spill “small people” they get lambasted, but Malkin gets a free pass. Or maybe it’s that smart people just don’t pay any attention to her.

The Yankees played a nail-biter last night against Arizona… until the eighth inning. Then they went from a 3-2 lead to a 9-2 lead (final score: 9-3). Every other team in the AL East lost, so we’re now 1 1/2 games ahead of Tampa and Boston.

Yay!

ABC reportedly paid “at least $100,000″ for an interview with Joran van der Sloot’s mother, Anita (they “won a spirited network bidding war”). Stephany Flores’ (and Natalee Holloway’s) parents must be thrilled.

That’s it for me, kids. Our vacation officially begins at sunrise tomorrow.

But my vacation from the Post starts… now.

Oh, that feels nice.

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