Settle down all and welcome to a Superbowl Sunday edition of the Weekend Holyland Update. This is WHU flight 020710. Today's Mideast news will be uploaded in segments throughout the game, interspersed with game commentary; Today on the menu: scenes from the (literally) exploding Israeli-Syrian border… Read full post »

Welcome to the Weekday Holyland Update, where we try unsuccessfully to make up for domestic suckitude by shining across the world. On the menu today: Conflict of interest by a so-called icon of journalism, police corruption, a well deserved (if ultimately harmful) shoe to the face, an old vampire of… Read full post »

Welcome one and all to Weekend Holyland Update tours, where we're back after a one week hiatus and a slightly broken promise. Details in the footnotes¹.

This is WHU flight 011510, where shame is forgotten, sanity trampled, irony killed yet again and the sweet sick smell of atavism wafts heavy in… Read full post »

Yes miss, yes sir, step right in, this is the magical meltdown forecast tour, also known as the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 01022010 - whoa! Is that a groovy number or what? Didn't even notice that till now. (by the time I finally got around to uploading it was 03, natch).… Read full post »

Peace on earth to y'all - I know, I know, who am I kidding, right? Still, people expect you to say shit like that this time of year. Just gets everyone's hopes up for no damn reason, if you ask me, but marketing insists...

 A'ight, settle down, this is the Weekend… Read full post »

I wasn't even stoned, and not for lack of desire, but my homie J-Dawg took time off from his nativity scene on the tail-end of his b-day to come say hello, which you gotta admit is nice of him

"Sup B? Why you ain't got nothin to puff on, man?"… Read full post »

As the great NYC rapper Nelly once put it: It's gettin' hot in here. This is the Weekday Holyland Update, charter edition, flight 121509, taking off from the Old Bailey to points in a state of mind that is really not just a river in Egypt. Please fasten your seatbelts as… Read full post »

I originally called this post "Justice Minister In Primitive Country Calls For Sharia Law" Then I realized - Oops, little language problem there. Make that "Torah Law". This is the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 121109, leaving from points around the globe to the center of an epic backward slide for… Read full post »

Welcome to the Weekday Holyland Update, Flight 120209, Primordial Fear edition. Our tour today will fly over the realms of taboo expunging rituals, the suicidal two-step, a desperate ploy by a forgotten hack, political witch-hunts and Judicial arrogance. Please fasten your seatbelts as we are enterin… Read full post »

_{I have two competing posts in my head right now, neither of which is a straight-up WHU and one is actually a gross incursion on mjwycha's turf, but it fits with the gem I'm enjoying on TV in my den as the kids watch cartoons in the living room - The}… Read full post »

Ah, the crazy is growing fast and furious on the ground, and your Intrepid Traveler has but to stoop ever so slightly to pick both hands full. This is the Weekend Holyland Update, flight 11-20-09, taking off from the fields of suicidal nationalism and passing through the lands of political shenanigan… Read full post »

Welcome one and all aboard the Weekend Holyland Update, Improv Version Flight 111609 taking off from sunny San Diego, touching down in sunnier Arizona and various NFL points east, while simultaneously throwing out some of the current stuff happening in points way east, like off the compass east. You… Read full post »

Welcome aboard the slightly belated Weekend Holiday Update, flight 110909, touring the regions of "Irony is deadistan", "grovelland", the village of "sweet symbolism", the settlement of "insanity and denial" and the stadiums of escapist dreams. Please fasten your seatbelts as your regular pilot, aide… Read full post »

You know how if something was portrayed in a parody skit you'd say it was a lame joke on account of being too blunt, or in other words "you can't imagine it happening" - only it did? This a Weekday Holyland Update special charter flight, number 102009, leaving sane reality as… Read full post »

Remember the anti-gay terror attack? Turns out the cops may have done some work after all. Of course we can't actually know whether they did or didn't, cause they have one of their ridiculous post-barn-break total gag orders on anything to do with the case. This is the Weekend Holyland update,… Read full post »

Please fasten your seatbelts for the first takeoff of a WHU flight in over a month, featuring a behind the scenes look at the core corruption of the occupation, plus other riveting tidbits of this sad and poignant eco-tour of a wildlife-preserve-as-it-unravels. Fear not, the aircraft is insulated an… Read full post »

I usually refrain from writing or commenting on posts dealing with the nature of Open Salon itself. This is not due to a lack of opinion on the matter, as I am rather disappointed personally in the prevailing nature of the material that appears on the site, in the relatively… Read full post »

Oy, kinderlach*, what to tell you? I’m not feeling so well, and I’m on a deadline, but since I already blew that (thanks, summer vacation!) and need an extension, so I might as well do a little update, so as not to let a second week go by without a dispatch.… Read full post »

Even though I'm still sweating bullets here in the holyland, the calendar insists that fall, and football season with it, are just around the corner. And football season means fantasy football - the greatest invention in sports in decades.

Warden Glynn (that's my ff alter-ego) will once again do bat… Read full post »

A week after I said it, a few individuals of no less import, plus some polling services, are twigging to the truth too. Contrary to what some blithe scribe at the WaPo (aka the paper you can buy access to) tried to sell, it's not that Obama's supporters are "taking the… Read full post »

Personally? I don't count golf as a sport. Not on the same level as your major sports, core track and field or swimming. It's just not. It's an athletic endeavor, to be sure, but...

Leaving that aside, however, and even ascribing to the American-led PoV that counts the exploits of… Read full post »

Update: I dunno how I forgot this delicious bit of Irony, but Hamas just concluded its first full fledged battle against Islamic terrorism. Yeah, I said against. Some AQ flavored nutcase barricaded himself in a mosque in Rafah (southern tip of the Gaza Strip) and declared the Gaza Strip an Islamic… Read full post »

Barry, my man!

 'sok, you keep running on the treadmil while I waste my facetime with you on gloating. Well, it's not all gloating cause you ain't done, but we'll get to your silver lining after I give you a touch of grey to the nose. 

Did Rahm give… Read full post »

Welcome aboard. That's ok, that's dry blood over there, where an unknown gunman walked into a basement gay teenagers club and bravely emptied two clips into the boys and girls and young adults seeking refuge there. Never fear, though. Around here, blood is a staple and there's always some fresh brewi… Read full post »

Update: Death count is now back at 2, apparently. A 26 y/o man and a 16 y/o girl. Still with 10 wounded, at what definitely looks like a hate crime that took place tonight (Aug 1)  in Tel Aviv,  at a civil rights union for GLBT youth  gathering. A gunman dressed… Read full post »