Self-Parody Imitates Parody
This is one of the worst cases of “life imitates art” I have ever seen.
Really.
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December 31, 2004
The Economics of Dueling
Over at Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen of GMU has an interesting post on the economics of dueling.
Lost in Translation
For those of you following the story (below, second half of story) on the Vatican allegedly condeming Israel for refusing to help Sri Lanka after The Wave, when in fact Israel had offered such aid but Sri Lanka had refused it….
Rest easy, it might have all been a translation error.
Meryl Yourish and Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein are reporting that the Catholic World News is retracting the story, blaming it on a translation error. In other words, the Vatican didn’t condemn Israel for something it didn’t do after all. They condemned Sri Lanka for declining Israeli assistance, which Sri Lanka did do. More here.
I told you this didn’t sound like today’s Vatican….
Unfortunately, reversing something in translation does sound like today’s journalists….
Hate Speech Roundup
Jeff Jacoby’s column today contains his eleventh annual political hate speech roundup. Roundups for previous years still online: 2003, 2002, 2001, and 2000.
Tsunami Amateur Videos
Tsunamis hit beaches, beaches have tourists, tourists have video cameras, and you can see the results here.
