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Now, even his hand-picked successor as Army Chief of Staff is in open revolt. This is way beyond partisan politics, comrades. I’m struggling for less strident tone, but can’t get there. Rumsfeld and Bush are showing terrible disrespect for, and are damaging our military.
Here’s the latest. General Schoomaker, the Army Chief of Staff, has refused […]
Walking the dogs past the little farmer’s market in our neighborhood today, we spotted a table full of funky-looking heirloom tomatoes.
Naturally, we bought a bunch and are planning to assemble a tasting menu for dinner tonight; we’ve got a loaf of good peasant bread, sweet butter and kosher salt, and we may not have anything […]
[by j.d.]
Introducing the People’s Cube.
Very nekulturniye.
UNRELATED UPDATE: Give us this day our daily beer and strippers.
The US gave Tehran a nuclear reactor–in the 1960s. Michelle Pilecki, who calls this “a classic example of the US digging itself into another hole,” seems to think this is some kind of a gotcha moment. Doubtless George Bush was involved somehow.
Here’s the thing, just because we didn’t view Iran as a threat 40 years […]
[by j.d.]
Grigory Perelman, who Rachel told you about as apparently having proved the Poincare conjecture, has turned down a Fields Medal (mathematics’ highest honor — there is no Nobel Prize for mathematics) when it was awarded on Tuesday.
A lot of people think he’ll also turn down the Clay Institute’s money as well. Clay offered $1 […]
Certain members of the right-wing blogosphere will no doubt be delighted to learn that the government is finally going after the New York Times under the espionage laws.
In a highly publicized trial, a researcher for the Times was just sentenced to three years in prison for fraud, although a charge of leaking state secrets was […]
I’d really like to quote this entire post… just, you know, reprint it.
Instead, I’m going to give you a meaty chunk from the middle and urge you to immediately go read the entire thing, please:
The point of terrorism is to cause terror, sometimes to further a political goal and sometimes out of sheer hatred. The […]
Catherine Bennett discusses the religious nature of environmentalism, whose most recent apostle is one Babs Haddrill. Babs is spreading the gospel–and taking donations!–via a pilgrimage from the UK to Australia over land and sea, but not by plane.
Although she could, as some visitors to her blog have pointed out, have not gone at all, since […]
Most 18-year-old students entering the class of 2010 this fall were born in 1988. They grew up with a mouse in one hand and a computer screen as part of their worldview. They learned to surf the internet as they learned to read. While they were still in their cribs, the 20th century started to […]
Further to this, the US Ambassador to Iraq outlines the current three-part strategy.
• Stabilizing Baghdad zone by zone.Four Iraqi Army battalions, two Coalition brigades and five military police companies will be redeployed to Baghdad, resulting in more than 12,000 additional forces on the city’s streets. The National Police will simultaneously undergo intensive retraining, with each […]
Via Chap, here’s a USA Today-style infographic in Slate (using AOL-style buddy icons) that takes four key Middle East players (Hamas, Hezbollah, Israel and Lebanon) and explains who everybody likes, hates, and isn’t sure about. (Click on the icons for a short briefing.)
The Middle East Buddy List (Slate)
- Barry@enrevanche
[by j.d.]
He designed his first propaganda poster with this; lo, those many moons ago.
This is first Russian laptop, made under the brand “Elektronika”. The production started in 1991 and lasted not very long due to the high price of the device - none of the common people could afford themselves such devices. The price for […]
Not a big surprise, but an interesting sidebar to athe story about Grigory Perelman, who last week solved the Poincaré Conjecture and stands to win $1 million. If he deigns to pick up the prize.
Grigory “Grisha” Perelman’s predicament stems from an acrimonious split with a leading Russian mathematical institute, the Steklov, in 2003. When the […]
Psycho killer raccoons terrorize Olympia
by Rachel
Turner Broadcasting will edit smoking scenes out of more than 1,500 Hanna Barbera cartoons after a complaint was made to the UK broadcasting regulator.
The regulator’s latest news bulletin stated that a viewer, who was not identified, had complained about two smoking scenes on “Tom and Jerry,” saying they “were not appropriate in a cartoon […]
