The American Spectator

A culinary disappointment is reported in our favorite journal of record:

Einar Bjorn Arnason’s restaurant in Vestmannaeyjar, Iceland, no longer has kangaroo on the menu. A pageone article Saturday about Iceland’s economy incorrectly implied it was still listed.

(May 21, 2012)

From the archives timeless tosh from Current Wisdoms Past
(August 1992)

San Francisco Bay Guardian

More on Sen. Al Gore’s cleavage between mind and body, as fishing turns into a cruel and unusual national pastime:

On March 9, a San Francisco woman in her 30s was hung from 28 wire-suspended fishhooks, all pierced through the flesh of her back, legs, and buttocks. This was a women-only event. More than 80 spectators and friends were in attendance at the black-walled South of Market space, drumming, chanting, and coaxing her on.

Raelyn Gallina, an East Bay piercer who has a lot of female clients, organized the event and did much of the piercing. “It was women doing it for women,” she says. “It was a very powerful experience. There were women who needed to be there. This was a major, history-making thing. There were three videographers and two still photographers. Women would cheer every time a hook went in.” …

Gallina has her own thoughts on the popularity of body play. “Basically,” she says, “the world is meaningless. There’s just your body and you. That’s all you’ve got.”

(May 27, 1992)