21st Century Role Reversal
My Christmas present this year:
A thirty-six-month out-of-date, 15GB iPod — a hand-me-down from my son.
Hussein executed
Hussein executed, Iraqi TV stations report
Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein has been executed, according to two Arabic language media outlets.
Hussein was hanged before dawn on Saturday in Iraq, at about 6 a.m. (10 p.m. Friday ET), the U.S.-backed Al-Hurra television reported.
Earlier, Munir Haddad, a judge on the appeals court that upheld the former dictator’s death […]
Battle Lines Being Drawn
District by District, Shiites Make Baghdad Their Own
As the United States debates what to do in Iraq, this country’s Shiite majority has been moving toward its own solution: making the capital its own.
Large portions of Baghdad have become Shiite in recent months, as militias press their fight against Sunni militants deeper into the heart of […]
Creationist Morons Lose Again
Evolution warnings don’t stick
A suburban school board has abandoned its four-year legal fight to place stickers in high school biology textbooks that say “evolution is a theory, not a fact.”
In a settlement announced Tuesday in federal court, the Cobb County Board of Education agreed never to use any similar “stickers, labels, stamps, inscriptions or other […]
Scott’s hut is well-preserved
Antarctic hut eerily intact after nearly a century
A neat stack of seal meat sits in an enclosed porch, tins of cocoa and cabbage are piled on shelves inside, and all seems ready for Antarctic explorers Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton to take shelter.
Of course they won’t: their kind of exploration of the southern […]
Greetings from beautiful downtown Ramadi
An insurgent armed with a heavy machine gun stands at a street in the centre of the Iraqi town of Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, December 8, 2006. (Stringer/Reuters)
*or maybe “light” machine gun. See the comments.
Laura and Barney still in charge
Bush Expresses Caution on Key Points in Iraq Panel’s Report
President Bush moved quickly on Thursday to distance himself from the central recommendations of the bipartisan Iraq Study Group: pulling back all combat brigades over the next 15 months and direct talks with Iran and Syria.
One day after the independent panel rocked Washington with its bleak […]
