I haven't been watching Saturday Night Live in recent years. I hope they have had (or will have) the wit and open-mindedness to do a Gilda-Radnor-type news piece in which a shrewish editorialist yells shrilly into the camera all the things on the above list (the power of the Taliban, the danger of the snow, the impenetrability of Afghanistan, the formidableness of Arab opinion, the sanctity of Ramadan, the quagmire of War, the ineffectiveness of bombing from the air, the worthlessness of the Northern Alliance, the global rage of Islamic Fundamentalism, the enduring injustice of the Palestinian plight) on and on and on into the camera until she's interrupted by the co-anchor who points out to her that the war is over, that the Americans and their allies won it in a couple of weeks, that we didn't hear a peep out of Islam during Ramadan, that the conference in Germany has just put together a new government in Afghanistan. And the shrew then turns to the camera and says: NEVER MIND!.
I hope they did it already, or they will do it this Saturday. I hope they are not mired in hopeless left-liberal-TV-political-correctness. I won't be watching. I'll be interested if someone reports here whether such a bit has been done on SNL or not.
Since 1953 the name "Piltdown" hasn't been associated with great scientific discovery, but great scientific fraud. It was in that year that a group of scientists, lead by Kenneth Oakley, attempted to use the new method of fluorine testing to get a more exact date on the bones. What the test showed surprised them: The jaw was modern, the skull only six hundred years old !!!
Additional analysis soon confirmed the fluorine tests. The jaw was really that of an orangutan. It had been filed down and parts that might have suggested it's simian origin were broken off. Both pieces had been treated to suggest great age !!!
Piltdown was proclaimed genuine by several of the most brilliant British scientists of the day. How did these faked fragments of bone fool the best scientific minds of the time??? Perhaps the desire to be part of a great discovery blinded those charged with authenticating it !!!
Since 1953 the name "Piltdown" hasn't been associated with great scientific discovery, but today, thanks to the never ending scholarly work of FReepers, and other loyal George W. Bush supporters, an amazing archaeological breakthrough has been brought to light before the unsuspecting American people. Piltdown has once again been found, this time by scientific genius GeekDejure, who has discovered TWO "LIVE" specimens crawling around from cave to cave. One of them is currently masquerading as Osama bin Laden, and the other as James Carville !!!
Especially today, watch carefully for them in Afghanistan caves, and thus rediscover "Piltdown" for yourself !!! ;-))