Briefly

He’s Gumby, dammit! Art Clokey, creator of Gumby and Davey and Goliath, died yesterday. I know that Davey and Goliath is Christian proselytizing, but it’s one of the shows from my childhood and I watched it every Saturday morning. Even as a kid, I used to laugh at or ignore the lectures. Far more interesting was imitating Goliath when he said “Davey… I wouldn’t do that, Davey.” (My brother’s name is Dave, so of course, we had to bust his chops.) Saturday morning TV included Gumby and Pokey, of course. And a whole lot more.

20 more Captain Underpants bombers: Well, this is just ducky. There are twenty more Muslim men who will be wearing bomb-laden underpants and trying to get past airport security. I’m betting that there are not twenty more fathers who will be turning in their sons—and we missed the one who did have a father who tried to stop him.

George Galloway, go home! Apparently, Galloway was not just declared persona non grata by the Egyptians. He was tossed out of Egypt and told never to come back. We will not soon get tired of discussing this. The Viva Palestina whackjobs are all out of the country now. And since Israel won’t let these goons come to Gaza by ship, this effectively ends the Galloway channel of money to Hamas. Thank you, Galloway, for being such an ass that Egypt shut you down, too!

The hummus war: Victory, Israel. Israeli cooks doubled the size of the Guinness record hummus that the Lebanese cooked up earlier this year, and so, the hummus wars continue. You know, if this were the sum total of the war between Israel and Lebanon, I’d be happy to let Lebanon win it. Too bad there’s that little Hezbollah issue in the “Really important wars” list of things in the middle east.