I'm not going to touch the Palin Email Account being hacked story. Nor am I going to click on the Gawker link, anymore than I did with a similar privacy invasion of Paris Hilton's T-Mobile account, last year.
There are some stories which do not require us to validate what they did, by giving them traffic.
Let's just say that alllll this will resonate in November, because the public are paying attention. You can bank on it.
I promised myself never to refer to the surrounding topic of the Holloway disappearance, but I note that media have been slow Stateside to pick up the latest twist to the story.
(Unfortunately, they were slow to the point of non-existent about picking up the legality of another story, which is much more important in the scheme of things...)
The alleged murderer of poor Natalee Holloway, Joran van der Sloot, tried to trick his ex-girlfriend into "smuggling" 34,000 Euros he had in a poker account (he can't be that good, can he?). With the proceeds, the confessed pothead apparently is opening up an Amsterdam-style coffeeshop in Thailand.
You know, there are some people that one can say without any shadow of a doubt that they are "bad news". Joran van der Sloot is definitely one of them.
He's scum personified, and such people end up very badly.
If you read Dutch, here is an excerpt from the Geen Stijl (the Netherlands' #1 online site) post on the topic:
Joran begint coffeeshop in Thailand
"Mannen die van hun hobby hun beroep maken. Daar hebben we bij GeenStijl repsetc voor. Handjes op elkaar dus voor die vieze coño van een Joran van der Sloot. Meneer wordt entrepreneur in verdovende middelen! Volgens een rancuneuze - dus 100% betrouwbare - tipgever van Radio 538 staat onze meisjeswegmoffelaar op het punt een coffeeshop in Thailand te beginnen. De hele dag Bacardi 151 wegslaan op een bountystrandje begint ook te vervelen. Bovendien is het leven op het tropisch paradijsje Koh Tao ook niet gratis. Daarom heeft Joran geprobeerd zijn pokerwinsten in lokale bahts om te zetten. De anonieme tipgever zou met ruim 34.000 euries de grens over moeten zodat Joran zijn handeltje in zoete thaise wietjes kan opstarten."
The accompanying article photo shows a naked Joran on some godforsaken beach, mooning tourists and waving like a fool.
What a piece of work.
UPDATED: A hilarious (if it weren't so pathetic) Youtube video on the only thing that matters to Joran: having fun explaining what happened to Natalee. "My name is Sloot" is a riff on his surname, "Of the Ditch". Well, he is as dull as ditch water, and just as clean.
What is up with Presidents who, in their last year in office, play the fool?
I remember President Clinton doing similar ridiculous gestures in 2000. Aren't they aware that this just feeds into the incumbent fatigue the American public feel, at the end of an 8-year term (whomsoever's term it is)?
Don't fall for bloggers who just want to make you look like a doofus, Messers President. Oops, too late.
