Wednesday, January 14, 2009

Rich Corinthian Leather

So, in honor of Ricardo Montalban --

http://vodpod.com/watch/279944-baby-its-cold-outside

and it was from watching this very movie, as an exchange student in Greeley, Colorado in 1949 that Sayyid Qutb wrote the book which was the basis for what became . . . al-Qaeda.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/presence-feb06.html

See also http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120190688451636621.html for the context of what so disturbed Qutb.

You can't make this stuff up.

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