Cyrus Farivar

DUDE: You brought a Pomeranian bowling? WALTER: What do you mean “brought it bowling”? I didn’t rent it shoes. I’m not buying it a beer. He’s not gonna take your turn, Dude. 2004 “The Big LebowskiÓ Bowling Tournament

Listen up.

Jenna Bush Sticks Tongue Out at News Photographers The Associated Press Tuesday, July 20, 2004; 10:28 PM When first lady Laura Bush counseled her twin daughters on how to behave while campaigning with their father, she may have skipped the part about not sticking your tongue out at the media. That’s what Jenna Bush did Tuesday after President Bush arrived at St. Louis’ Lambert International Airport. Jenna and sister Barbara, traveling together for the first time with their father, had…

Drezner pointed out this series of articles in the Chicago Tribune about one family and their trials and tribulations with Bush’s new education reform law. Reporter Stephanie Banchero spent 10 months with this family — they’re very well written. I think the story illustrates the difficulties of these types of situations very well. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Go Rachel!

I heard about this last year when I was in Senegal, but I’m glad to see it now in the American press. France Outsources, Senegal Calls DAKAR — Holding a black telephone and clicking through options on a computer screen, Aissatou Diouf is conducting a customer survey for a big French mobile phone company. Diouf is not calling from France, although she doesn’t mention that to the client on the other end of the line. She is 2,500 miles away…

To all you people who said you wanted to go see Youssou N’Dour with me and then cancelled: you suck. I ended up not going, because I didn’t want to go alone.

For all of you who were searching for Bobby Fischer, call off your search party: While incognito, Fischer intermittently gave interviews with a radio station in the Philippines, often digressing into anti-Jewish rants and accusing American officials of hounding him. In the radio interviews, he praised the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, saying America should be “wiped out,” and described Jews as “thieving, lying bastards.” His mother was Jewish. He also announced that he had abandoned chess in 1996 and…

At Rachel’s suggestion, I’ve created PersianNotArab.com (the domain won’t work for a day or so) to document this type of occurance. I’m not going to be a vigilante or anything, seeking out these types of misrepresentations all the time, but if they cross my email inbox or my regular reading materials, then I’ll speak up.

To Pierre Kattar and Ben de la Cruz, I wanted to write to you to tell you how much I enjoyed your video clip “Comedy with an Agenda” (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/politics/aacomedians/index.htm?nav=lb) that was posted on your Web site this morning. I found it very intriguing and quite funny. However, in the caption to the video feed you mention Arab American comics. One of the comics that is featured in the video is Maz Jobrani, who you also have featured on the home…