Do I have to move to bum-fuck Islamabad to finally see a cover story that is not about these poor Israelis who tearfully are forced to move from their Gaza cul-de-sacs? At least I’d like to see one article from the other perspective: imperialist Zionists end illegal 38-year occupation. (And just with two short sentences, little Frankie destroys any chance of ever entering the Holy Land again … because you know the Mossad is monitoring my every move since I slipped through security at Ben Gurion Airport back in the summer of ’98….)

On a lighter note…

…from the land of absolute monotony comes a call for diversity:

A Japanese politician came out at Tokyo’s first Gay Pride event in three years during the weekend, calling for more understanding of sexual diversity in the country. Kanako Otsuji [a member of the Osaka Prefectural Assembly] chose to come out at the high-profile event because she said too many people had kept “silent” in the past, fearing “discrimination and prejudice.”

As we say in Japanese:

Back on a more serious note…

…the murder of Jean Charles de Menezes is back on the front page with more lies reported by the police officers who murdered him: he did not jump over a barrier, he was not wearing bulky clothes on a hot summer day, and the only time he ran was to make his train. Oh yeah, and there were three bullets that completely missed his body! I guess 7 in the head and 1 in the shoulder just wasn’t enough. Oh yeah, and he was Brazilian and not a terrorist and guilty of no crime….