The News

O boy. Kosovo, the expatriate Albanian parliamentary majority thereof (headed by Prime Minister, Chief Thief, Hashim Taci) has declared "independence." It's a seismic issue. I, as a "Cascadian Bio-regionalist," and a firm believer in everybody's right to cantonize themselves, of course, am in favor of it--along, with France and most other European nations. Spain, however, and, of course, Russia, and China of course, are against it (thinking, variously, of Basques, Ossetians, and the Taiwanese). Just for fun, I googled Hashim Taci and found him, as I'd figured he'd have to have been, almost purely and simply a Crime Boss--Crime being what Albanians do. From the CIA World Factbook: "Albanians are hated throughout Europe as backward criminals who settle in other nations in order to receive their social benefits." Still, their language and their studly Illyrian good looks make them interesting. The latter of which qualities, and their submission to Islam, are probably why the Turks clung to them so long (although, being Turks, generally speaking, they preferred uncircumcised boys--Greeks, for example--for sexual purposes and as janissaries, you can see why they'd have made an exception in favor of Albanians).

Mohamed Al-Fayed (Dodi's father) came out swinging in a deposition in Paris yesterday, saying that Princes Phillip and Charles, and the British Secret Service M-15 and M-16, had murdered his son and Princess Diana because they were about to be married. He said he didn't think the Queen even knew about it. Well, I think she did. Here's where my having up-and-functioning Gaydar helps. (item) I recognized, when I saw the interview with HRH Prince Charles talking about his upcoming wedding to the hapless Diana, Lady Spenser, that all he was interested in was selecting the music and getting Kiri Te Kanawa (then in perfect voice) to sing it: Homosexuals talk that way about their weddings-to-girls-for-dynastic-purposes. (item) When I saw the video of Her Majesty the Queen openly and outrightly snubbing her baffled and humiliated daughter-in-law at some sort of outdoor fete-in-a-tent, I said to myself, "That girl's in danger. I wonder if she knows it?" (item) A Marquess of Alba told me in confidence that he knew Charles was gay. (item) When I saw the video of HRH weeping uncontrollably on a mountainside in Switzerland at the news of the death of his valet, I said to myself, "That man has just lost the Love of His Life." (item) A recent reply of la Paglia to a writer-in at Salon.com indicates that Charles was seen doing something sexual to, or with, the aforementioned valet. Put it all together, with what we know about what a dim-witted, out-of-control, irresponsible (would not do her job) neurotic slut Princess Di was, and how thoroughly she was despised by "the Palace," --it's a wonder she lasted as long as she did. Had I been Prince Charles, I'd've poisoned her as soon as she delivered her (s and the gamekeeper's) second son. "That," I would have said, "is enough!"