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I suppose the "controversy" piled on top of Rev. Wright might ... 2008-04-24 suckers: the media's response to the latest reveal of the Pentagon's PR program notes - the only new news see... 2008-04-12 forking an ssh tunnel in ruby with password authentication: Everybody will tell you to do this with passwordless key authentication, and that's what you should ... 2008-04-11 Untitled: ... 2008-04-07 "If attacked on some vulnerable point by anyone or anything or any organization, always find or manufacture enough threat against them to cause them to sue for peace": Scientology v. Anonymous is possibly the most fascinating flame war since the birth of the internets... 2008-04-05 the etiquette-o-fascists have gone too far: I hold no more brief against civil discourse than I do archaic double negatives, but sometimes gener... 2008-04-05 Mayor Daley Welcomes You to the City of Chicago: The city for some reason has been repeatedly declaring my little saturn an "abandoned vehicle" latel... 2008-04-04 documenting the watching of documentaries: I was gonna tell you about what I'm watching this evening, but instead you can just watch it yoursel... 2008-04-04 JP Morgan fleeces public schools out of $12 billion in PA alone: School Boards are paid mad money to understand the intricacies of complex financial derivatives, so ... 2008-04-02 rules schmules: Without this declassified memo declaring the vigilante prerogative of the executive branch to wanton... 2008-04-01 rfk hearts mlk: The civil rights movement could never have succeeded without its allies in the executive branch. Co... 2008-03-30 Untitled: I don't think PZ Meyers endorsing hateful bigotry slapped haphazardly together by a book-banning fre... 2008-03-29 now i'm going down to emmit's fix-it-shop, to fix emmit: Mrs. Clinton said she would like to cap health insurance premiums at 5 percent to 10 percent of inc... 2008-03-28 "for revolting barbarity and shameless hypocrisy, America reigns without a rival": Frederick Douglass, why do you hate America? Or, to put it in a way that distinguishes between "the... 2008-03-28 "change we can believe in!": Reaction we can believe in! And in fairness to the Obama campaign, the Hillary campaign puts its mo... 2008-03-24 don't stop believing: Oh, hai America! Let me ask you a quick question: do you think Saddam Hussein was personally involv... 2008-03-24 you are in a twisty machine of complex instruments, all alike : or, the NYT being informative: the New York Times piece today bearing the hysterical title "What C... 2008-03-23 4,000: it will be news to the majority of Americans. But then, what wouldn't be? Among those polled for ... 2008-03-23 an introduction to introducing evolutionary psychology to political science: From Cosma I learn of Dr. Satoshi Kanazawa's "Why You Can't Get a Date on a Saturday Night and Why M... 2008-03-23 merry zombie jesus day: Iraqi Christians used to be able to celebrate it in peace. Nor is the zombie lord getting his fill ... 2008-03-21 documenting the watching of documentaries: I was gonna tell you about what I'm watching this evening, but instead you can just watch it yoursel... 2008-03-21 To call this sermon "anti-American" is... anti-American: via, somebody's finally been plastering youtube with full sermons by this Rev. Wright fellow. Here'... 2008-03-21 now with extra words in somebody else's mouth: That wacky President is at it again, claiming Iran has "declared" that it wants nuclear weapons - he... 2008-03-21 strange double standards: Why is this strange double standard being developed and perpetuated by the Obama campaign? Is it OK... 2008-03-21 I too recall fondly our glorious invasion and occupation of the Warsaw Pact: "I regarded 1989 as almost eternal proof of the notion that the walls of tyranny could fall if we h... 2008-03-20 one day ready: I wasn't gonna say anything the first time, or the second time, but: For the third time in two day... 2008-03-19 it takes an ivy league: In a working paper already getting press Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten have proven beyond all do... 2008-03-18 understatement of the academic year: Daniel Drezner reads the tea leaves and discovers wide public support for a "realist foreign policy"... 2008-03-18 more like this, please: Why does the Atlanta Police Department hate America?... 2008-03-18 Q7. Which of the following have you personally seen or experienced since the invasion of Iraq in 2003?: The channel 4 poll of Iraqis finds that 70% of Iraqis want us to leave, 60% want us out within a yea... 2008-03-17 the church of my fathers is in the cupboard: In commemoration of St. Pat driving all the snakes out of Ireland - to only return disguised as succ... 2008-03-17 god bless the united states of amerikkka: The comment thread on this story about planned changes to Chicago's public housing administration i... 2008-03-17 my country is full of lies, we're all gonna die and die like flies: Why hasn't anyone in the press questioned Obama about these inflammatory remarks by Nina Simone? ... 2008-03-16 I think we could start by letting do with less: Among the professional classes, many Democrats and Republicans, whatever their other disagreements,... 2008-03-16 "the continent must in the end be conqueror": Thomas Paine once wrote: Why is it that the enemy have left the New England provinces, and made th... 2008-03-15 take your place at the end son, we'll get to you one by one: For the third time in a decade, Bear, Stearns & Company is demanding tens of millions of dollars in... 2008-03-14 OH HAI! IM STILL IN UR CAMPAIGN, PRAYIN 4 ARMAGEDDONS: Hagee? John Hagee? JOHN HAGEE: I IZ VRY HONORD GUEST STILL! U DYE NOW. In other campaign new... 2008-03-14 30,000 Americans illegally spied on and robbed of their free speech in 2006 alone: At least. This is just the illegal issuance of national security letters, not all the other warrant... 2008-03-13 man that's shameless dinner theatre: Not the parody, he's been doing that for 8 years. The yuckity-yuks from our famous press corps.... 2008-03-12 We have vision! Our vision is a bright Afghanistan!: They're not chanting Death to America in Kabul anymore. Quest zindagee! Woo woo woo! update: From ... 2008-03-10 like you hadn't already guessed : Interviews with Afghan and U.S. intelligence officials involved in covert U.S. operations along th... 2008-03-09 the stupidest fucking 900-page draft memoir on earth: Douglas Feith corrects the historical record with one message: Douglas Feith is a fucking geeenius. ... 2008-03-09 We Wish to Inform You That Yesterday We Weren't Killed with Our Families, Thanks to Hillary Clinton: The Clinton campaign digs the knife in a little deeper and pulls out a thumping whopper. I can't de... 2008-03-07 a shorter tony rezko indictment: Now that I've finally seen season three of The Wire, it's simple! Tony Rezko is Clay Davis's shadow... 2008-03-06 people who misunderstand force: via - this 60 year old observation from Hannah Arendt that the past 60 years has unarguably demonstr... 2008-03-06 back to uzbekistan: After assisting Uzbekistan in the Andijon massacre we were kicked out of the country for complainin... 2008-03-04 a buddy helps some random fuckwit on the internets: I've been trying to put it this succinctly since who knows: the central tenet of the Hamas faction... 2008-03-04 the anti-christ fails saving throw v. death: Gary Gygax is dead. It's hard to think of any single individual that did more to change modern soul... 2008-03-03 a blow struck against venezuelan hegemony: A Venezuelan businessman has pleaded guilty to taking part in a conspiracy to cover up Venezuela’s ... 2008-03-03 preferences: "If Barack Obama gets in a scrap with John McCain over national security credentials, he might as w... 2008-03-03 let's take a look at those puppet strings: I wouldn't have expected the instructions to be so explicitly detailed, I guess: Jake Walles, the ... 2008-03-02 your imminent doom will end your boredom: Humanity is in a period exactly like 1938-9, [Lovelock] explains, when "we all knew something terri... 2008-03-02 how it really happened: So the almighty god totters off his infinitely high throne and cries for help, "I've fallen and I ca... 2008-02-29 the real terrifying thing is the equanimity and detachment: William F. Buckley Jr. RIPs are floating around with occasional embeds from his discussion with Noam... 2008-02-28 from the liberal arts college to the grave: Here's a funny little clip from the movie form of James Scurlock's book Maxed Out: The funny thin... 2008-02-27 mission accomplished: So www.theotheriraq.com is wwww.theotheriraqoccupation.com now?... 2008-02-23 if ignorance were bliss then we've been spreading the joy a bit too generously: Thoreau is skeptical about Bush's "mission of mercy" to Africa, correctly seeing it as a mission to ... 2008-02-20 oh yeah, and give me 50 beeellion dollars: I have a real hard time believing this table: Exhibit 2: Distribution of Federal Fiscal Subsidies... 2008-02-20 seven year lesson plan: BUSH: A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces that tend to divide people up ... 2008-02-20 they stand on the shoulders of giant windbags: no politician has ever said anything in a stump speech anywhere that wasn't field tested market appr... 2008-02-18 intermittency v. carbon sequesterization: While the subsurface reservoirs that would be used to permanently store carbon are finite in volume ... 2008-02-18 all the presidents' days: The Uniform Monday Holiday Act inflicted more damage than merely the sacrifice of a presidential bi... 2008-02-18 das leben der anderen: Pardon the film review and potential spoilers, but let me tell you how much I love my girl. When sh... 2008-02-16 Untitled: Freedom Is Untidy.... 2008-02-16 when the intra-multicultural violence ends: After the conventions National Geographic studies like this will be essential to the healing process... 2008-02-16 a briefer history of conflict in chad: If you sometimes find yourself sharing this not-uncommon sentiment about Africa, you need to know th... 2008-02-15 [insert blogger ethics panel "joke"]: Munro had also ignored the corroborating evidence I sent him, the 4.5 million displaced (suggesting... 2008-02-15 you wanna go where people know/that people are all the same/you wanna go where everybody knows your name...: ...and address, social security number, dob, bank accounts, phone records, lovers, dreams, fetishes,... 2008-02-14 one brilliant plan for carbon sequestering is to pump it into the oceans: A global map depicts the overall impact that 17 different human activities are having on marine ecos... 2008-02-14 "The United States, where we are, where we have bases, we are there at the invitation of those countries.": sez Whitehouse spokeswoman Dana Perino, not adding "by which I mean their soviet-era dictatorships, ... 2008-02-14 urban planning disasters: I should be clearer about what I'm saying about burning food: it's indisputable by now to point out ... 2008-02-14 demanding "thousands of hours and untold sums of money" from taxpayers in "good faith": That's how Illinois lawmakers describe their federal handout in the continuing hubub over FutureGen.... 2008-02-13 It's like, a tiger! In Africa?: A Marine in Okinawa! Allegedly raping a 14-year old girl? That never happens. Ever: according t... 2008-02-13 torture first, alibi later: Another one of Stafford Smith's clients, a Moroccan father of two who immigrated to England in the ... 2008-02-13 I have come to expect the Spanish Inquisition: "It seems to me you have to say, as unlikely as that is, it would be absurd to say you couldn't, I ... 2008-02-12 help a brother out: Like Taxi to the Darkside director Alex Gibney: ALEX GIBNEY: [The Discovery Channel] own the right... 2008-02-12 The Tata Nano: Stop it before it pollutes again: It promises to be, said Yale environmental law professor Daniel ... 2008-02-12 the festering hulk of a rotting republic: here I am watchin the rolecalls on the telecom immunity ammendment, it's like the American Society f... 2008-02-11 you litigated my secret task force!: You'd think there'd be at least one hit on google for "hillary clinton" "Task Force on Health Reform... 2008-02-11 smoke pot not smoldering corpses: nothing sums up the current Democratic leadership better than its vitriolic criticisms of those rec... 2008-02-11 a problem only a 'paradox' could solve: Via Robert Bryce we learn of "the Jevons Paradox", which dooms us to a future of high carbon emissio... 2008-02-11 spending $18000 on a $10000 budget: I'm glad that the commenters here are so much quicker on the uptake than the poster. It's like Mich... 2008-02-10 "We reject adultry, alcohol, acting, fornication, debauchery, and nude beaches. ... I am prepared to die.": I'd be willing to die too, if I rejected all that and was stuck in an Egyptian kangaroo cage. What ... 2008-02-10 To the Great Disposable Diaper, c/o the Pacific Garbage Patch: You must get frustrated because more people believe in Santa Claus than you. Well, let's face it, S... 2008-02-09 Untitled: I finally saw Charlie Wilson's War in movie form last night, and it was funny, I thought, when they ... 2008-02-09 to be hard on terror, one must be prepared to do the hard work of spreading terror: In this country it would be soft on terror to oppose it, that's why I support the power of the Walma... 2008-02-08 the 949 billion national security budget ate my paycheck: Fred Kaplan walks us to 713.1 billion, but doesn't include interest payments for past military spend... 2008-02-08 driving around on somebody else's breakfast: I just want to remind you that ethanol sucks.... 2008-02-07 ah, sweet consensus: Libertarians argue that the real problem is that we spend far too much on medicine and that America... 2008-02-05 Untitled: FtR endorses this endorsement.... 2008-02-04 our brief absence: a physicist ate my harddrive.... 2008-01-30 "I'm not criticizing President Bush on this because I did the same thing.": A Tiny Revolution discovers strangely honest dishonesty from Bill Clinton. Fun for the whole cluste... 2008-01-30 ignorance reform: It's hard to take Milt Bearden seriously when he complains that: When I first heard that the so-c... 2008-01-30 if we're not going to impeach, at least pass an amendment: Section 1. The executive and legislative power shall be vested in a President of the United States... 2008-01-29 we write letters: Sen. Dick Durbin is in a rage over the decision to can the 1.8 billion FutureGen coal boondoggle dow... 2008-01-29 hillary surged out of her seat: When Bush proclaimed, "Ladies and gentlemen, some may deny the surge is working, but among terroris... 2008-01-29 'refuting the idea that saving the world [as we know it] is too expensive': Gar Lipow has written a book I need to take a look at when I'm not working. First, though, an intro... 2008-01-29 They've bled us white, the bastards: ... 2008-01-29 somoza enterprises: Watching this old documentary about Nicaragua for the first time, the hardest thing to believe so fa... 2008-01-28 and they still don't know the difference: In the American mind, there was never any concept of Iraq, or of fighting in Iraq, other than the s... 2008-01-28 sexing up the intelligence: Via Jim, via Kerry Howley, I've learned that there was no such thing as "sacred prostitution". Step... 2008-01-27 no justice for the wicked: General Suharto has peacefully kicked the bucket, friends and family fondly remember stability, corr... 2008-01-25 an obesity stimulus: one could add to this that among men the relationship between obesity to income is the opposite of t... 2008-01-23 reaction begets regulation: Reminding myself of this about that: Business reliance on the federal government may have been var... 2008-01-23 plus good intentions makes it America!: This is interesting, the first graph in particular illustrates something I'd heard before but didn... 2008-01-23 surge!: Sweet, sweet confirmation of my previously stated bias ("an insignificant, meaningless, chair-shuffl... 2008-01-23 on the political uses of intelligence, or our lack thereof: Since it's obvious that His Hypocritical Heinousness Chairman John D. Rockefeller (D-WI) is never go... 2008-01-22 shorter 'grander strategy' manifesto: We must increase the risk of nuclear war to counter the increasing risk of nuclear war. update: I... 2008-01-22 all rubber and no glue: Just to confirm that flipping the names around works: "Senator Obama, it's hard to have a straight... 2008-01-21 these aliens are overtly racist!: the 1986 Soviet sci-fi epic Kin Dza Dza - if you don't watch it I may have to put you away in the e... 2008-01-21 Untitled: Gareth Porter on the investigative background of the bombing of the Jewish Community Center (AMIA) i... 2008-01-21 like some demonic, destructive suction tube: Jim Henley gets the message.... 2008-01-20 lights out: the last turbine at the only power plant in the Gaza Strip has switched off, plunging the territory ... 2008-01-19 a secret muslim in a racist christian church plotting universal dhimmitude in Kenya: The froth from our jibbering conspiracy minded wingnut cousins since the Insight fraud of Barack Oba... 2008-01-18 i guess we'll never know: whitehouse erases 473 days of our national history: ... 2008-01-17 Untitled: Do not picket the scab!... 2008-01-17 Untitled: Whoever invented this site to help the uninformed voter find out where the candidates stand on healt... 2008-01-17 all your borderlands are belong to us: Far as I can recall I though eminent domain was supposed to be used for some demonstrable public goo... 2008-01-15 fill in the links: or just try to keep up with the run-on sentence: Iraqi Defense Minister Abdul Qadir Mohammed Jassim... 2008-01-14 fairy tales: It would also appear to misconstrue the facts to not mention Saddam's invitation to "weapons inspect... 2008-01-14 Untitled: If the CIA had just waterboarded Nosenko we could have gotten him to confess to staging the moon lan... 2008-01-13 billary obama 2008: balancing firmly on nothing: One corollary of Clinton's tacking her years decorating the White House and bogarting healthcare ref... 2008-01-10 for the greater good of our own particular stupid wastes of money: I think there might be an internal contradiction between conservative opposition to eminent domain a... 2008-01-10 please relinquish your vote for our campaign: I promise you that you and I will be a catalyst for alteration! I will hem the garments! Trim the ... 2008-01-10 bring out your dead: Ninepence for any newspaper that reports this one accurately. The new WHO/IFHS study on relative Ir... 2008-01-09 Untitled: They just hate America.... 2008-01-08 do something: Buy gold.... 2008-01-07 electability: I assume somebody somewhere is proffering the theory that Obama has obliterated Clinton's lead in th... 2008-01-07 kenya: The Washington Post publishes a hard line blaming Britain for Kenya's problems and points out the sp... 2008-01-07 The Party of Personal Responsibility: it's libruls' fault conservatives can't code.... 2008-01-06 change? I'll bring it on, it's already been broughten: Romney and Clinton seem to have filled in the same madlib about how they're experienced change-maker... 2008-01-04 maybe it's a random sample survey?: A new CEPR study has found that C-SPAN overwhelmingly favors conservative think tanks in its covera... 2008-01-04 the primary function being democracy: I expanded my mind with important cultural artifacts last night instead of wasting attention on Iowa... 2008-01-03 Untitled: Um, if Bush neither vetoed nor pocket-vetoed the bill then the bill would be law, so why would Pelos... 2008-01-03 why we should read old back issues of The National Review: The song goes: To my knowledge there is just one man That's really a true American That's George L... 2008-01-02 "Of what appreciable value is it to any man, as an individual, that he is allowed a voice in choosing these public masters? His voice is only one of several millions.": When I think about Ron Paul I think about this: The Constitution is no such instrument as it has g... 2008-01-02 or you could zerbert its nose: I was just thinking, if a tiger attacks you, put your hand in it's mouth. If that doesn't stop it, ... 2007-12-21 escalating the air war: US Airpower in Iraq and Afghanistan: 2004-2007 [pdf]. In it you'll find the number of sorties flown... 2007-12-20 by "liberal fascism" jonah goldberg of course doesn't intend to suggest that liberals are fascists: George W. Bush, you'll recall, was only recently discovered to be too liberal to be a conservative, ... 2007-12-19 I have wonderful news I won't be sharing with you: "The federal government’s fiscal exposures totaled approximately $53 trillion as of September 30, 2... 2007-12-16 gold diggers recognize gender income gap: as if to say, "Baby, I know all about the glass ceiling, I knew the men who died building it. That'... 2007-12-16 whiskey makes you rich and famous, gin makes you lazy and homeless: The Gin Act of 1751 outlawed gin in England but left the more expensive brown stuff well enough alon... 2007-12-12 "54 percent believe the Bush administration deliberately misled them about whether Iran was attempting to develop nuclear weapons": You can fool some of the people all the time, and those are the ones you want to concentrate on.... 2007-12-10 sex and violence: Our impartial, apolitical, fearless soothsayers of truth to power at Freedom House: Freedom House,... 2007-12-09 feminist patriarchy subverter: Even our games about smashing things are being infected by vicious pathogen of political correctness... 2007-12-08 now mitt extra oxymoron: Romney literally said "the religion of non-religion". No wonder Jesus picked Huckabee. ... 2007-12-07 a little less chavismo, a little more machismo, please: I've been reading about the 60 odd constitutional ammendments that were shot down in a public refere... 2007-12-07 Untitled: Conservatives only misunderstand force.... 2007-12-06 "the male stripper figures out they could trade hashish for dynamite": Scott Atran deconstructs the Madrid Plot, among others, starting at about 1:20. It's a little mumbl... 2007-12-05 I think it's bullshit how these fucking civilians are dying!: and other passive observations.... 2007-12-03 what do we bomb them for now?: Long delayed and overdue National Intelligence Estimate says Iran not building nuclear weapons. "Th... 2007-12-03 further evidence we are near the end times: In 2000, World Health Organization officials estimated that 757,000 people - nearly all of them chi... 2007-11-30 what you get for those enforceable core ILO labor rights: three years ago US labor groups were pretty content with the labor provisions of our trade agreement... 2007-11-30 Bill: I've been quoted out of context, what I said in total was "Bush did the right thing to go back, not": "I approved of Afghanistan and opposed Iraq from the beginning", said Bill Clinton, exhibiting the a... 2007-11-29 software is aggravating: It’s easy to forget just how young East African nations are. Kenya and Somalia achieved independenc... 2007-11-23 Iraqi MPs demand timetable for withdrawal: In related news, attacks in Basra have decreased 90% since the British withdrawal. This no doub... 2007-11-19 selling the next war: Freedom Watch is all aflutter focus grouping a bombing campaign against Iran: One of group's financ... 2007-11-18 woops: Perhaps we've learned that the Iraq war had nothing to do with the vague and technocratic threat of ... 2007-11-15 Untitled: Tasers never kill nobody.... 2007-11-15 fox smut: nicely done.... 2007-11-15 still spreading freedom and democracy: Somalia's U.S. and Ethiopian-backed government has forced three prominent private radio stations of... 2007-11-13 que?: Time describes Latin America's growth as a "mediocre performance". Really, pretty good. Ahh, I see... 2007-11-13 were the seeds planted in clinton's campaign by bush, or bush's by clinton, or clinton's by bush: Plants, nevertheless, grow. A real chicken and the egg problem for the history of PR in America. T... 2007-11-13 on the hysterical abuses of scientific opinion: So did you hear about the scientist who threatened to sue the IPCC if they didn't take his name off ... 2007-11-11 hints for staying off the 894,000-strong terrorism watchlist: Buy gorbonzo beans and falafel cash only and don't proffer your discount card.... 2007-11-11 will 'beyond belief ii' feature more atran-harris suicide flaming?: One can only hope. For the comments section whenever their mysql server is restored, this was reite... 2007-11-07 what hollywood has taught us about the ticking time bomb scenario: This shit with conservatives using a nighttime soap opera called "24" as some sort of argument in fa... 2007-11-06 this discussion is torture: Watching a bunch of thugs pander to "values voters" who care so much about "morality" and "restoring... 2007-11-05 what is it they find so loathsome about a flaccid sack of water, anyway: Is this strange Brazilian MTV ad related to this strange paper in An. Soc. Entomol. Bras.? Curiousl... 2007-11-05 human rights activists and lawyers oh noz!: The Pakistani government, here-after known as Musharrafistan, has deemed these people a threat to th... 2007-11-04 Like Judas of old/You lie and deceive: Minnesota: nearly half the MNARNG's 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division, found they we... 2007-11-03 Untitled: A conservative friend of mine keeps going on about this Edwards campaign attack ad. It is pretty fu... 2007-11-02 "Major General Stubblebine was confounded by his continual failure to walk through his wall": Your advised viewing for this weekend, "Crazy Rulers of the World, Part 1: Men Who Stare at Goats". ... 2007-11-01 General David Plagiarist: A PhD from Stanford apparently means you know how to take credit for the work of others: The most ... 2007-11-01 the campaign is lost, but retreat is unnecessary: there is no where to retreat to from overrun. Ok, so that doesn't explain the link very well. Let'... 2007-10-30 christo-fascism awareness week: AJE has been giving the Spanish government's legal condemnation of General Franco and the Vatican's ... 2007-10-30 those anti-depressants in the ground water aren't working: Melonhead's premise seems to be that measures of subjective attitudes are meaningful in cross countr... 2007-10-27 You spent a lot of time in Antarctica. Why did you stop contracting there and go to Iraq?: "There are several reasons. ... It is an insane 'perfectness'."... 2007-10-27 Heh: in which nader takes his cake and then eats it: I could see where the congressman is using that p... 2007-10-26 documenting the documentaries: I was gonna tell you about what I'm watching this evening, but apparently you can just watch them to... 2007-10-26 huh: SECRETARY RICE: Unfortunately, the Iranian Government continues to spurn our offer of open negotiat... 2007-10-24 Untitled: This Who Killed the Electric Car movie takes hydrogen fuel cells perpetual motion machines way too s... 2007-10-22 restoring our momentary lapse from tyranny: I think it's interesting that up until 1961 or so there wasn't really any 4th Amendment to speak of ... 2007-10-19 the pussification of the American male: We have discovered an explanation for why the apex of resolute manliness seems so soft and pliable i... 2007-10-19 no believers behind squirrel guns: "at the time of the founding, historians estimate that only about 17% of Americans professed formal ... 2007-10-15 kicking testes: The last couple of days I've been trying to wrap my head around the idea that we're in the middle of... 2007-10-13 hope springs eternal in the bellies of crotchety old computer scientists: "An extreme optimist is a person who believes his country will probably survive even if it doesn't t... 2007-10-12 trees are good for leaning against, and that's ALL: I spontaneously burst into this skit sometimes to avoid smalltalk. I'm not sure if others know what... 2007-10-06 in the spirit of defeatism: I bet we could get more Americans out to protest France's 'humanitarian' projects in Africa than we ... 2007-10-04 iducation sulvz problums: My former Rep. Rahm Emanuel (D-IL) on Bill Maher's RealTime, in the "Overtime" podcast @ 4:47: EMA... 2007-10-01 why don't they just buy a hydraulic vice and some pigs: It's cute how the New York Time's interest in Chechnya revolves completely around successfully crush... 2007-09-28 cruciamentum doctor: Maybe they should rename that Hippocratic Oath the Hypocritical Oath: DR. STEVEN MILES: About 130 ... 2007-09-28 zomgwtfbbq: Democrats! 75 of the world's penultimate leaders in egregious hypocrisy and utter incompetence stil... 2007-09-26 everybody knows that the naked man and the woman are just a shining artifact of the past: It should be recalled that homosexuals have restricted rights over much of the globe and that Iran i... 2007-09-23 rachel carson was worse than a million hitlers, silent spring a bazillion holocausts: Aaron Swartz smacks an easy pitch out of the park.... 2007-09-21 Untitled: The only remote hope I ever had for this war was that at least sanctions would end and shit like thi... 2007-09-21 down to the pole for a swim: Loudon Wainwright III is missing an easy verse: This summer I swam way up north And I swam... 2007-09-21 where's raed?: I was just watching this bit on base building in Iraq and saw the subject of salam pax's old blog (a... 2007-09-20 self-identity is a strange construct: per comments here: Over 70% of Democrats believe Hillary has promised to withdraw all US troops fr... 2007-09-20 chewin on life's gristle: August wasn't pretty, but as they say in the theatre, "break an arm". After an extended jobless rec... 2007-09-18 i feel betrayed: Why, I heard a story - you wouldn't believe this but let me tell you - I heard a story this weekend ... 2007-09-18 bullshit is more edible than liberty: qotd from the weekly standard: When you and I were born, there were 2 billion people in the world.... 2007-09-18 sku11 & bon3z tayz0red m3: There's probably a provision in the law somewhere requiring security to respond in silent blank face... 2007-09-17 not so much pepper spray: as pepper hose.... 2007-09-17 America Protects the History of Mankind: "placing guards round the [Babylon] site would have been far more sensible than bulldozing it". ... 2007-09-16 great quorums in history: The College of Agriculture, University of Kentucky. The discussion regards clear cutting the infini... 2007-09-14 from the department of photographic operations: note to self - photo ops with the President can be dangerous.... 2007-09-14 that would be a pretty strong indication of...: His Excellency The Most Shrill observes: Last month the provincial government in Kurdistan, defyin... 2007-09-14 Eritrea destabalizing an unstable region with support for Somali opposition to the US backed Ethiopian occupation, or something like that: Eric Martin writes up an informative update on our nice little proxy war in the Horn of Africa. ... 2007-09-14 what do we do now?: In case you missed it, or like me you've been kicking television, Juan Cole's presentation on the Fr... 2007-09-13 abc was warned about alexis debat five years ago: AFP news agency, September 6, 2002, "French ministry denies source named in US TV terror report is e... 2007-09-13 hopping on the embedded video bangwagon: I dunno why YouTube doesn't offer a page layout like this somewhere, but I think, after about five m... 2007-09-12 make that 159,998 perspectives: The military responded to a NYT op-ed by 7 probably non-existent "troops" with this observation: W... 2007-09-12 nothing to cart here, on this graph: I'm astonished at the pernicious extent and unrivaled power of the liberal conspiracy to spread the ... 2007-09-07 R&R: The server is sick of dirty naked hippies and is moving from Berkely to Chicago. flagrancy.net will ... 2007-09-06 to have "airspace" maybe you have to have an airforce: I'm sure it's just me, but I confess my amusement at the google results for "Syria's right to defend... 2007-09-05 toast: I've been getting the feeling the science boys have misunderestimated the rate of climate charring a... 2007-09-04 whipping a big fat PR salami onto the table: No doubt you imagined, like me, that it would be Cheney and the AEI leading the charge to drum up su... 2007-08-31 the impending doom of coherent discourse: The IAEA has released it's "modality plan", a rough schedule for going forward with Iran in determin... 2007-08-28 some sort of nutty prank: [to continue from downblog] In an April, 1975 Appropriations Committee hearing - General Weyand is ... 2007-08-28 Let us remember how it shows the character of America: When I read Dana Milbank's rendering of the incompetent prosecution of Lt. Col. Steven Jordan in the... 2007-08-28 "forget democracy": wolf blitzer argues the case so passionately, it'd be insulting to suggest he didn't believe it a li... 2007-08-27 drenched: Syrian writer Subhi al-Hadidi discusses our conflagrations concerning an Iraq vet whom we have it on... 2007-08-24 we could use just such a plan right about now: Peter Wehrner - former head of the White House Office of Strategic Initiatives - leads us into an en... 2007-08-24 when plagiarizing, it is best to steal from obscure sources and abbreviate often: Unlike in Vietnam, if we withdraw before the job is done, this enemy will follow us home. And that ... 2007-08-23 the fox becomes the hound: This is well done. They have a petition to the networks. Rather than comment with a barrel of foul... 2007-08-23 Untitled: "As usual, it’s complete madness."... 2007-08-23 Family Security Matters more than the Republic: the right-wing agitprop outfit apparently hired this guy to write this hilariously nutty tract as a ... 2007-08-23 if only we had stayed the course in cambodia: People keep talking like bombing Cambodia didn't start until 1969, so I'll just cross post my commen... 2007-08-23 george w. bonaparte: Ahh, now there's an allegory that works. The overthrow of a tyrannical regime and the liberation o... 2007-08-23 peace corps ghana: a few final excerpts from Making Them Like Us. Finished it a long time ago but never got around to ... 2007-08-22 eight days in iraq: I'm glad that the Daily Show has sent one of their hammiest correspondents to spend eight days in Ir... 2007-08-22 no parallel: November 2003: You asked me if there's parallel [to Vietnam]. I said it's a different situation. ... 2007-08-22 we have met the enemy...: Michael Cohen is thick, he sez: facts are facts and the reality is that Saddam prevented the inspe... 2007-08-21 i r ur viros, nsaing yuz: If google's blogsearch suspects me of being "automated requests from a computer virus or spyware app... 2007-08-21 preemptive fisking: see here, the authors probably don't exist at all. The librul MSM of course, having fisked their no... 2007-08-21 Untitled: Posted to the comments section of a blog that no longer exists but preserved for posterity on the al... 2007-08-21 we have met the enemy...: Here's another story on the IED-IRA angle from The Sunday Times, March 19, 2006: For 13 years [Kev... 2007-08-21 for the price of one manhattan project and a fat boy: not one effective counter-measure to improvised explosive devices. Indeed, what can you do about pi... 2007-08-21 land of the loompas: The Israeli guide on the trip told a nice story about the super-secret Israeli Krembo chocolate fac... 2007-08-21 answer: To paraphrase: 'Where did the Mahdi Army get its arms and training from if not Iran?' You might rec... 2007-08-21 question: There's all kinds of coverage of these various arms deals with Sunni militias in Iraq "to fight Al Q... 2007-08-20 how to lose influence and make enemies: I was just reading up on the backgrounds of various country nuclear weapons programs to see if any h... 2007-08-20 genius: the NRO observes that we will never be safe. This is why, in life, you should always wear a helmet,... 2007-08-20 the wonders of anti-capitalist trade: If you've ever seen The Take [torrent], Naomi Klein's documentary for the CBC on the worker owned fa... 2007-08-20 a country that was supposed to be within days or weeks of building a nuclear weapon couldn't possibly have the technical prowess to add a copper plate to a homemade bomb: The NYT defends Michael Gordon's piece accusing Iran of being the source of Explosively Formed Penet... 2007-08-20 my wingnut outreach program is only in its infancy: "VIEWED from Iraq at the tail end of a 15-month deployment, the political debate in Washington is in... 2007-08-19 adrift in a barroom, acting like a jerk and a kid: Perhaps the good news about the Bush Administration's decision (as proposed by one bipartisan H.R. 1... 2007-08-19 you mean there's somebody in Iraq not already packing an assault rifle or four?: The Italians have disrupted one of what is probably dozens of black market arms sales to Iraq: ...... 2007-08-17 smoking a beard, growing a pipe: Barkley Rosser observes: the Bushites have reverted to their usual incoherence with the decision t... 2007-08-17 ask the bombardier: Aggressive policies towards Iran are a bad idea, just listen to Cheney. Brink Lindsey refers to "Ir... 2007-08-17 i have read your mind, and much of it is true: Fred Kaplan got his secret decoder ring too, but has anyone ever seen Fred Kaplan present any suppor... 2007-08-17 and an o'buermann home distillery: I'm really pretty - I dunno, what is it called when you're too bemused to take something as seriousl... 2007-08-16 head in the clouds, where progress happens: I keep hearing about this particular piece of schlock: Despite Bush's repeated statements that the... 2007-08-16 bailing out the hedge funds: I repeat a previous suggestion into the vapor: we invaded Iraq just to create a convenient solution ... 2007-08-15 wikipedia's credibility gap: just got a lot narrower. This could be a nonstop source of high comedy if I could figure out how to... 2007-08-15 They've learned the lessons of Iraq: The weirdest thing, I've been feeling, is everytime I scan through Google News output for "iran nucl... 2007-08-15 Best you can do is dim-fix the harvest/And kick somebody's ass: To the Honorable World Federation of Beating Around the Bush Contender Rudy Giuliani, I was 3,076 m... 2007-08-15 an awesome liberal blurg: via Jon Schwarz's thorough advancement of the "debate" regarding the efficacy and verisimilitude of ... 2007-08-08 my new blogging technique is unstoppable: I wasn't at all aware that David Rees (c.f. mnftiu) has been blogging for two years. Prolly because... 2007-08-01 Results 1 - 10 of about 147 from nytimes.com for john edwards haircut nagourney: The NYT's Adam Nagourney sez without a trace of irony, "listening to Mr. Edwards is often akin to re... 2007-07-31 a different course, of course!: Secretary of State Condileeza Rice, June 20th, 2005: We should all look to a future when every gov... 2007-07-29 +1 foreign ministery: Did we know this already? From Johnson's review of Tim Weiner's Legacy of Ashes: during the debat... 2007-07-27 the billary platform - permanent war, occupation forever: A senior Pentagon officer who has briefed Clinton told NPR commentator Ted Koppel that Clinton expe... 2007-07-24 the kids won't turn down that infernal racket: here I am persistently minding my own damned business, reading some lazy, haberdash mockery of Condi... 2007-07-11 something to read while you calm down: Christian Science, by Mark Twain.... 2007-07-09 1&1 is teh sux: after three weeks of being successively dicked around and then tea bagged by my very lame domain reg... 2007-06-16 torture, rape and dying might be bad, but we all know what would be worse: The One Holy and Apostolic Church has another bee in its chastity belt: THE Vatican said today it ... 2007-06-16 Untitled: Before there were 'enhanced interrogation techniques,' there was verschärfte Vernehmung, (which mea... 2007-06-15 the new rustbelt economy: I was reading through - somebody was expounding the glories of the future hydrogen economy to me aga... 2007-06-15 Untitled: David Noble on the corporate PR campaign seizing up global warming: On opening day of the 2007 bas... 2007-06-13 perfect nukes forever: four pages of this: "A February 1992 report by the U.S. House of Representatives suggests that these... 2007-06-08 Untitled: Science education sure is taking it's hits. ... 2007-06-08 maybe i've just been out of the loop, but: I feel like something in the vituperative idiotmongering of american political discourse is waning. ... 2007-06-08 my favorite time of year: is when the leaders of the so-called G8 get together to plot our slow plodding destruction, armed wi... 2007-06-08 enhanced interrogation techniques can help us fill in the blanks: like those in madlibs.... 2007-06-08 if it was tough enough for the nazis....: We didn't have to torture nazi scum: Well let’s say, for instance, all [somebody] wants to do is c... 2007-06-07 the surge is the glue that will hold the pieces of iraq together as it flies apart: I was reading up on some background, trying to figure out exactly what the hell was going down in Le... 2007-06-06 gang warfare over the remaining shreds of history: The context here is that Paul Begala has just ripped into Mitt Romney for lying about how the UN/IAE... 2007-05-30 tea bagged: "nothing that Democrats have said seemed to placate the party's left wing"? Somebody in the party e... 2007-05-24 the office of, uh, antiboycott compliance?: I didn't realize there was such a federal entity, but according to their homepage boycotting France ... 2007-05-23 A Free Republican's prayer atop Tangle Ridge on the 49th Day of N. Pelosi's trip on the road to Damascus: the friend of my friend is my enemy, an' the enemy of my friend is my friend. o lord, your shit migh... 2007-05-20 mu: Since they reject the validity of the few scientific efforts to measure changes in mortality rates i... 2007-05-16 just cuz it was up for grabs: It totally makes sense that the impossible perpetuation of Kenneth Pollack's career in public policy... 2007-05-14 grand theft petrol: a minimum estimate of $5 million/day is unaccounted for in Iraq's oil production, and the number cou... 2007-05-12 as i was saying: 'they're all content to play their bit parts in some staged theatre'... Act II: President Bush acc... 2007-05-08 memo to sam harris: I really need to go back and find that quote about the redheads. Just a reminder, tho, because I kn... 2007-05-05 because the time of the warlords never really ended: Mohamed Dheere, who has long co-operated with the CIA in grabbing al-Qaeda operatives off the stree... 2007-05-02 Untitled: Cockburn's latest bit on the nuclear industry hoax of anthropomorphic global warming might be right ... 2007-04-29 my senator, dick durbin: is a big fat weenie: The information we had in the intelligence committee was not the same informa... 2007-04-29 within prayer distance of striking hopeful: So Obama and Clinton are passing on the June 3rd NH debate ("they will only participate in Democrati... 2007-04-29 business end to blame for ultimate oblivion brinks: The stuff about blaming the UAW for GM's Q1 loss to Toyota is kinda silly, e.g.: the most egregiou... 2007-04-28 why they hate us, answer # 4,336: Brian Michael Jenkins on C-SPAN today (at a pretty good UCLA campus round table discussion) is tryin... 2007-04-26 a well potted plant: I like this Mike Gravel fellow more every time I see him. What is Tucker Carlson's obsession with h... 2007-04-26 the white house press corps is unlikable: I agree, but "irascible"? 'Easily pissed off'? About what? When? Isn't the whole point of Moyers... 2007-04-26 do the worms belch after a good meal?: Apparently. Lt. Col. Ralph Kauzlarich's worm dirt quote is getting a lot of play but, look, that's ... 2007-04-26 george w. bush explains it all again, from suck to blow: He was very patient with Charlie the other night, as he always is with The American People - the ide... 2007-04-25 someone still loves you, boris yeltsin: the band (yummy!) says Boris "was in tennis as he was in politics; he tried to serve well but was no... 2007-04-25 because we haven't done enough already: Bernard Henri-Levy is explaining to Charlie Rose on the teevee that he went 400 miles into the Darfu... 2007-04-18 the most depressing book ever written: I read a lot of sad, gut wrenching non-fiction about various episodes of human barbarity without tak... 2007-04-16 Untitled: The blame america firsters are at it again. Also, of course, video games. And rap, and Islam, and,... 2007-04-16 yet another abstinence-only ed study: real shocker, this one, "The study found that youth in the four evaluated programs were no more like... 2007-04-15 Untitled: So did you hear the news about Don Imus? Something about never apologizing for his role in some sor... 2007-04-12 Untitled: This is kinda interesting: Religion % have been divorced Jews 30% Born-again Christians 27% Oth... 2007-04-11 imus should buy a drum machine and try rhyming once in a while: I wouldn't comment but the topic of judging womens' performance on the basis of how pretty their smi... 2007-04-11 a series of aluminum tubes: Washington Post editor Peter Eisner and journalist Knut Royce have written a new book: "That ['Ita... 2007-04-11 Untitled: Holy crap is Lee Iacocca shrill. ... 2007-04-10 the horror...: my cat monkeywrenched my banjo. I can't put up with her nightly yowling, she can't put up with my e... 2007-04-10 cooperating with north korea: it doesn't matter how evil we say a particular regime is, so long as it will help us defend democrac... 2007-04-10 Shorter Fritz Fischer's "Making Them Like Us", chapter 4: "Would the Marlboro women please refrain smoking." Chapter 4 is a really fantastic cultural window ... 2007-04-09 Fritz Fischer's curious usage of the word "ignominious": It's getting more interesting as we go along, I'll give it that. There's been a considerable respit... 2007-04-09 Shorter Fritz Fischer's "Making Them Like Us", chapters 1 and 2: "The Peace Corps was a new foreign aid institution that idealized the image of its American voluntee... 2007-04-09 hark, a gwoteist: There's this hilarious quote from this Sam Harris guy about the Koran and redheads that I wanted to ... 2007-04-08 merry zombie jesus day: Speaking of dumb stuff, on the plus side - the one dogmatists like Dawkins and his neo-athiest ilk w... 2007-04-08 Untitled: Seems to me that if you're going to accuse somebody of violating a law that has never been tried in ... 2007-04-08 that smoke is just the beginnings of synergy: "I'm going to put even more things in the iRack!"... 2007-04-07 "black is the new probable cause": john cole is funny: I have long wondered why it is always the smelly dirty hippies who seem to be ... 2007-04-07 the new pravda: atrios notices the Washington Post shoving doubleplusungood and malquoted U.S. military spokesman Li... 2007-04-07 "The neo-atheists, like their predecessors from a century ago": You see, except during the peak of religious revivals it's like athiests don't even exist. Certainl... 2007-04-07 norman might be a wealthy man, but only on hypothetical paper: this debate is a riot, if you're into that sort of thing. The big fancy point of contention is whet... 2007-04-06 Untitled: Funny thing is, i remember when people scoffed at the IBC numbers for being too high. Now they get ... 2007-04-06 bs: the magazine for disgruntled world bank employees, by disgruntled world bank employees.... 2007-04-05 all ashore: thanks to a face-saving undefined maritime border. Check out the orange jumpsuits and fashionable b... 2007-04-03 The ABC's Of Elementary Logic: ABC provides us a rich example today in its panic attack on Iranian uranium enrichment with the foll... 2007-04-02 maybe i've been rockin the bar stool too hard: but can somebody out there in the internets explain to me what's so illegal about firing political a... 2007-04-02 iraq and the senate's dodiddling: It has been damn near three years since the first part was published. It has been two years and thr... 2007-04-01 Untitled: Forrest Whitaker's portrayal of the Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Sea, and C... 2007-04-01 the ergonomic obama: like a folding chair. I don't know why anybody has to do this song and dance routine for people who... 2007-04-01 but now i rock a bar stool and drink for two: 30. Like 15, only more weight to throw around. Or drag.... 2007-03-30 iraq and congress's dodiddling: there are two ways out of iraq before 2009: cutting the funds keeping us there, or impeachment. Any... 2007-03-30 blanks on checks: I think it really speaks to the high quality of our media that not one, it seems, is capable of look... 2007-03-29 lines on maps: For days now you've been regaled every morning about the 15 strong British crew of the HMS Cornwall ... 2007-03-28 new boss bigger on starting civil wars than old boss: U.S. Army Maj. Charles Miller suspects members of the Iraqi police unit he was advising of killing,... 2007-03-28 new boss admittedly deadlier than old boss: British government officials backed the methodology used by scientists who concluded that more than... 2007-03-27 new boss tighter wad than old boss: zakaria claims that so and so claims that: Paul Brinkley, a talented deputy under secretary of Defe... 2007-03-27 new boss worse than the old boss: yet another impressive accomplishment: The international NGO Reporters Without Borders, which adv... 2007-03-20 Iraqis: 'don't leave! we are not yet finished bringing it on': This poll reveals that 51% of Iraqis support attacks on coalition troops, but only 35% want us to le... 2007-03-20 disagreeing to agree: Jon has another bit on the Clinton parameters and the Taba talks back in 2001, elicited this time by... 2007-03-20 FAIR is fair: they manage to cite the rightwingnut Media Research Center in their brief history of iraq's wmd in t... 2007-03-19 now tell me the bad news: "One in four Iraqis has had a family member murdered, says the poll by Opinion Research Business." ... 2007-03-14 300+: so the boys in hollywood managed to piss off both the greeks and the iranians. That's impressive. ... 2007-03-14 oh that's hawt: google news archives. The excuses I can think of - journal access and lexus nexus - to go back to s... 2007-03-14 azeris, ahwazi arabs, baluchis and kurds: the basic gist of it appears to be that the Bush administration - dissastisfied with its finite resh... 2007-03-14 WATCHING THE CABLE NEWS IS LIKE GOING THROUGH LIFE WITH THE CAPSLOCK ON: finally, time to sit on the phone in order to cancel the fucking cable subscription. 20 minutes of ... 2007-03-13 for I am a free man, and beg it upon myself to read of other free men: many months have passed where I've looked at my bookshelf, and seen it, waiting patiently: The Col... 2007-03-13 Untitled: U.S. Workers Hate Their Jobs, Now More Than Ever. I could relate, but not today. ... 2007-03-10 why do "they" hate "us"?: Answer # 4,326, from the daily mail: Toy Imports: Toy Exports: via ... 2007-03-10 Untitled: when you're watching C-SPAN 2, and somebody proffers to explain "why free market reform didn't work ... 2007-03-06 tortilla riots: I vaguely remember wanting to note something about stories like this: the master narrative in the pr... 2007-02-27 more shocking revelations: while the find gave experts much more information on the makings of the E.F.P.s, which the American ... 2007-02-26 i wonder where they got this idea: HRW reports: Beginning in late 2005, armed groups, including the Taliban, sharply increased attack... 2007-02-22 the budget: Sanders's office came up with some interesting numbers here. If the Estate Tax were to be repealed ... 2007-02-21 Untitled: Jon Schwarz on the significance of Frank Gaffney - one of those ultrakooks out there spreading all t... 2007-02-21 big spigots: Charlie Wilson's War, p.269: Of Wilson's $50 million, $38 million went the Chinese. The pipeline ... 2007-02-20 are we there yet?: John McCain will be 72, 3 years older than the gipper, in 2008. Rudy Giuliani - not much younger - ... 2007-02-20 chicago elections: they're on the 27th, only a week to figure out who's already out and who's already in! Too busy tal... 2007-02-19 sticking the enemy where it hurts: Many years ago I read a great deal about a fellow named Bill Donavan, and as I was doing so it seeme...