Friday digest

- I have found a website that is good for at least minutes of entertainment, and with all the crap out there online these days, that's saying a lot. Check out Gizoogle. It turns proper English into jive talk so you can up your rep with all the homies on the street, belee'dat. For instance, a recent speech by President Bush, before and after Gizoogle.

Now that is comedy!

Speaking of which, Fox is debuting a Daily Show-type news satire that is going to tip right rather than left. I don't expect it's going to be any good, as conservatives are usually more cynical than funny, and when they do attempt humour, it usually ends up falling flat (see here for a totally lame example).

- In what amounts to the cinematic equivalent of ambulance chasing, Charlize Theron is about to portray Anna Nicole Smith. Certainly not one to miss an opportunity to grind an ideological axe, I'm sure that Ms. Theron will portray the deceased as a victim of her own destructive choices in life rather than something like, oh, say, male-dominated society, for instance, and would certainly not insist on adjusting the script at all to reflect her own ball-busting bent.

- Now here is a great article that everyone should read.

- During an appearance yesterday, Justin Trudeau, son of the late former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, suggested that we need to reform capitalism. No doubt he immediately donated his entire $10,000 speaking fee to charity upon the conclusion of the event.

- I wouldn't call Chrysler's buyout package as offered to employees excessive, but it's pretty sweet, especially if you're an unskilled worker.

- Did America overreact to 9/11? The answer, according to this observer, is no.

- The always-worthwhile Anne Applebaum suggests that conflict with Iran is in no one's interest, but Caroline Glick suggests it's inevitable, especially after this week's half-baked, Clintonesque deal with North Korea.

- Is there room in the G-8 for a tinpot dictator?

- Hezbollah enabler, sponsorship scandal beneficiary, and libelous slanderer of Olympian athletes, Denis Coderre, has maligned the 2007 Road Hammer Man of the Year. I don't recall Coderre piping up about "props" when the son of the Chief Electoral Officer of Canada was employed in the Prime Minister's Office under Coderre's former leader, Paul Martin.

- I didn't know this gentleman very well, and was only served by him twice in the last six or so years, but he was one you didn't easily forget. I also recall a certain reader of this blog once trying to arrange a blind date with his daughter, probably because he was more enthralled by Spedi himself than anything else.