I watched Control Room, a documentary on Al Jazeera during the early days of the Iraq war, last night and found it to be incredibly informative, and I reccomend it highly. One of the major events the film centers upon is American military attack on Al Jazeera’s Iraqi headquarters, which resulted in the killing of [...]
Archive for November, 2011
There may yet be an end to the Iraq war saga that does not involve mass death and the unleashing of tremendous evil. By brokering a last minute compromise that allows constitutional amendments to be considered after new elections in December–when Sunni Arab legislators hope to drastically improve their now marginal standing in the Iraqi [...]
Pretty much no one living today can remember a time when the New York Times was not the American newspaper, so it isn’t surprising that the paper’s editorialists feel that they play a special part in the nation’s political discourse, which, to be fair they have and still do. As of late, however, it seems [...]
Take a look at this flash animation set to “One of These Days” by Pink Floyd and designed to give some perspective on how large the number 2000 really is, considering that we are rapidly closing in on that many dead U.S. soldiers in Iraq. When I was watching it I thought it was too [...]
According to U.S. Trade Representative Rob Portman the government is prepared to slash its agricultural subsidies if Europe and Japan will lower their tariffs. From Reuters: In an opinion piece to be published in the Financial Times on Monday, Portman said the United States wanted to see steep tariff cuts during the next five years, [...]
With the Angels thankfully sending the Yankees back to New York as losers tonight, only four teams remain in contention to become baseball’s World Champions, and I am ready to make my predictions about how it will all turn out. The ALCS is the easiest to call; the White Sox are going to own the [...]
I have an article up on the weekend edition of LewRockwell.com dissecting a particularly silly piece by Victor Davis Hanson of National Review.
I usually don’t do this, but this post by Gene Healy at Liberty and Power is so good that I’m just going to quote it in its entirety: A nice one-two from Harriet Miers’ most brilliant man alive: BUSH: “Some have also argued that extremism has been strengthened by the actions of our coalition in [...]
In one of the coolest animal fights ever documented, a thirteen foot Burmese python ate a six foot alligator and then exploded in the swamps of Florida. Check it out: Now, if only we could settle the matter of bear vs. squid. Link from The Agitator.
Torben Hansen, a disabled Danish man with cerebal palsy, is suing his government to pay him for the extra costs he incurs hiring prostitutes to come to his house because he is unable to go the brothel. It sounds extraordinarily silly, but what really is the qualitative difference between forcing taxpayers to fund Hansen’s sex [...]
