Friday, March 29, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
LPRisms

SEPTEMBER 26, 2006 --

One oil trader was quoted in The New York Times, September 19, as saying that high oil prices were caused by a "'fear premium'" of ten to twenty dollars.

How about mandatory anti-anxiety medication for oil traders?

One of the 14 terrorists held in secret detention reportedly spilled the beans after, among other things, the lives of his children were threatened. LPR recalls seeing the same interrogation technique in a "24" episode last season.

Venezuela has sent nearly 200 baseball players to the major leagues, since 1939, including Hall of Famer Luis Aparicio,
Chicago White Sox shortstop; Bobby Abreu, now with the New York Yankees, and more than 25 all stars.

Thailand's prime minister, Thaksin Shinawatra was ousted in a coup while he was attending the session of the UN General Assembly. Who says the UN serves no useful purpose?

LPR has no doubt at all that cries of "intimidation of the press", "chilling effect on free speech,"" Smirkgate," would fill the editorial and op-ed columns if Tom Delay spoke to NBC's Tim Russert the
way Bill Clinton spoke to Chris Wallace of Fox News.

LPR would not be surprised if we learn that the former president's verbal assault on Chris Wallace was not spontaneous.

LPR wonders if anyone who believes the Bush administration is behind 9/11 also believes that Vince Foster did not commit
suicide.