The New Contrarian » bullshit http://newcontrarian.com Just another Newcontrarian.com weblog Thu, 15 Mar 2012 16:58:04 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Slow Days, Part III http://newcontrarian.com/2008/02/22/slow-days-part-iii/ http://newcontrarian.com/2008/02/22/slow-days-part-iii/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 16:19:05 +0000 Damir Marusic http://www.newcontrarian.com/?p=299 There’s no point excerpting the oft-brilliant Overheard in New York, so I’ll just quote it in its entirety:

Black guy: Where you from?
Tourist: Maryland.
Black guy: Cool. I’ve seen *The Wire*. I know how you guys get down.
]]> http://newcontrarian.com/2008/02/22/slow-days-part-iii/feed/ 0 Slow Days, Part II http://newcontrarian.com/2008/02/21/slow-days-part-ii/ http://newcontrarian.com/2008/02/21/slow-days-part-ii/#comments Thu, 21 Feb 2008 18:18:50 +0000 Damir Marusic http://www.newcontrarian.com/?p=295 Next up, it turns out that the Dayton Accords have gone missing in Serbia. The Croatian weekly Nacional is dripping with condescension as it reports:

“The Dayton Accords never appeared in the Foreign Ministry. The Ministry is where all international treaties are stored for safekeeping, we have treaties reaching back to the Kingdom of Serbia, but this document is not here,” [the Serbian daily] *Politika* was told by the Ministry. But Vlado Nadeždin, chief of office at the time of the signing of the treaty claims to have personally delivered the document to the Ministry.

This follows on the heels of the news that the Bosnian government can’t find its copy of the Accords either.

No worries, says Former Serbian Foreign Minister Goran Svilanović. There’s a copy in the archives, and as a last resort, we can always call Paris where another original is stored.

The Croatian government, as of yet, has not lost its signed copy.

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First up from my buddy Jake, the best NYTimes correction ever, screen captured as I’m sure the link will be updated soon enough:

Man in ’86 Police Gunfight Is Killed - New York Times.jpg

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