This will bring a tear to your eye. There are several large photos, so be patient. (Via Davids Medienkritik.)

Was watching NBC news' coverage of the Saddam capture for about half an hour this morning. A few phrases uttered about 15 minutes apart caught my attention. Tom Brokaw, describing Saddam's later days

World Reaction:

George Galloway: "It might be seized upon by the prime minister as something to laugh about, but I very much doubt if it will be the last laugh, because

Steven Den Beste has posted a rant about the familiar absence of objectivity from the likes of Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International. The particular instance he commented on is the just-release

Will the left ultimately end up being consumed by Islamism? When I first read about it, the idea of a coalition between the hard left and Islamism seemed as outrageous to me as cooperation between Sad

We have all discovered, to our horror, that the turkey Bush held was not actually served to the troops, and may not even have been edible. But this scandal gets even worse. You know that platter of pe

Thanks be to the Prophets (or wormhole aliens, depending on one's point of view) and the shapeshifters at Amazon.com, the seventh, and sadly, last season of Deep Space Nine arrived at the homestead ye

There’s lots of talk on the net about the complaints that President Bush hasn't attended any funerals for military personnel killed in Iraq. Charles Krauthammer and Andrew Sullivan have commented on t

I ripped off this background, which I call 50's green, from Andrea at Too Much to Dream, who's long been on my blogroll (and this therefore gives me permission to steal from her- but not her bandwidth

Wayne Madsen responds publicly to the thoroughly debunked 6 am Thanksgiving dinner story with an article at Counterpunch titled Wagging the Media. Does Madsen admit he made a gross error in judgment?

Steven Den Beste has been doing some cold, Jacksonian calculating about what it would take for the US to go nuclear in this war, and what the consequences may be. A guy (?) from Tehran later wrote Den