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Italy defender Marco Materazzi on Monday denied a report that he had called Zinedine Zidane a 'dirty terrorist' seconds before the French captain head-butted him in Sunday's World Cup final.

'It is absolutely not true, I did not call him a terrorist. I'm ignorant. I don't even know what the word means,' the Italian news agency Ansa quoted Materazzi as saying after the Italian team returned to Rome.



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An Italian lip-reader last night claimed to have deciphered the words Marco Materazzi said to Zinédine Zidane that provoked the French captain into butting him in the chest during Sunday's World Cup final, the great midfielder's final act before a red card ended his career in top-level football.

According to the BBC, Materazzi said, "I wish an ugly death to you and all your family," and then told Zidane to "go fuck yourself".

Ooooo

We can but hope:

http://www.tvsquad.com/2006/07/10/arrested-development-creator-in-talks-for-a-movie/

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Graaargh. Stupid editorials make Hulk angry.

Oh. My. God. Byebye any chance of Iraq settling down.

hit and miff

So we got the 10 movie passes for MIFF. So far, have picked out seven:

loudQUIETloud, Sarah Silverman: Jesus is Magic, Great Yokai War, Thank You For Smoking, Book of Revelation, An Inconvenient Truth, Prairie Home Companion.

The question is, what have we missed? And is it shallow of me that I don't think that I could cope with a four hour documentary about children with cancer?

The (paper) festival guide this year really is unbelievably awful. It's almost unusable. And the website is also bad. So there's a "diary" option, great. Where's the "dump in a useful format" so I can load straight from that diary into my calendar? Come on guys, it's 2006!

you damn kids get off my lawn

http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/irony-deficient/2006/07/10/1152383672411.html?page=fullpage

Thanks (if that is the word) to nic, who has issues with this piece.

My response would be something like "DIAF" or "GCAD", or even just "FOAD".

update aha. The obvious reason for the piece, and I quote:

Likewise, jealousy may play a part in older Australians looking askance at younger Australians speaking their strange, coded language and texting at the dinner table. It’s easy for a generation X-er to be suspicious and judgemental of a generation Y-er, who all seem to be the apple of their babyboomer grandparents’ eyes.

Aw. Does Nanna not love you any more?

one last post for the day

I had a couple of pieces I wanted to post about, but hadn't gotten around to writing up. Fortunately James Wolcott has already done it for me, and he's a far far better writer than I will ever be.

It's as if the American military and media thought that the deaths of Iraqi civilians from US action somehow wouldn't count as long as we didn't actually count them. Digby the indispensable analyzes and amplifies an important piece by Andrew Bacevich in the Washington Post about the callow attitude towards civilian casualties that has helped make enemies of those we boast about having liberated.

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