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The Times - Lebanon’s Agony Hezbollah is the prime suspect in a brutal, intimidatory assassination

The timing is also far from coincidental. It comes amid political turmoil caused by the resignation of six pro-Syrian Shia Cabinet ministers and on the eve of massive planned street demonstrations by Hezbollah and its allies attempting to topple a [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

But why can’t I have a Polish builder?!

(File this entry under kitchen remodels sucking.)

Update (Thanksgiving):

The Times - How many heteros does it take to change a light bulb? Matthew Parris: My Week

Why are straight men such poofs? A male friend staying last weekend (heterosexual) betrayed complete incompetence at stoking and regulating a log-burning [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Reuters - Director Robert Altman dies

Remember the speech he gave when he got the Lifetime Achievement Oscar this year?

Categories: Entertainment

We’re having trouble finding suitable lighting.

Front Design - MOOOI

I dunno about the pig, and the rabbit is an accident waiting to happen, but the horse? I dig the horse.

Update: Two more recommendations:

First, apparently cats are breeding with Ewoks.

And, quoth Peter,

I love teh internets

A little something for the Ahnuld lovers.

Categories: Art and Literature

Well, the UN is here to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war, reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small, and to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Slate - Look Who’s Cutting and Running Now James Baker is the last guy we should listen to about Iraq. By Christopher Hitchens

In order to recruit the Baathist regime of Hafez Assad to his coalition of the cynical against Saddam in the Kuwait war, Baker and Bush senior both acquiesced in the obliteration of [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Power Line - Hamas Commander Killed, U.N. Moralizes

So, blah blah blah, Palestinian rockets, dead Israelis, Israelis pissed off at UN guy, UN guy lectures pissed off Israelis on legal means by which to defend themselves, nothing new here. But John wraps up with:

So it goes at the U.N. Israel has, in theory, [...]

Categories: War and Peace

CDR Salamander - Poland roars - Fwance, Italy and Germany piddle

While I was watching for what was coming out of Riga, I should have been watching Quebec City more. The limitations some European countries put on their troops threaten to divide NATO and undermine counterinsurgency operations [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Ah, the seasons are changing, the weather is shifting, the length of the days has altered, and look who feels he has to write again that he’s not a Jooooooo:

The Times - A debate of the deaf poisoning young minds, by David Aaronovitch Invective and insinuation cloud the Palestinian issue

There I was last Thursday [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I don’t think so. Well done International Community. But hey, I might be wrong!

FOXnews - Anti-Syrian Christian Leader Pierre Gemayel Assassinated in Lebanon

Prominent anti-Syrian Christian politician Pierre Gemayel was assassinated in a suburb of Beirut on Tuesday, his party’s radio station and Lebanon’s official news agency reported. His [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Grave news. I searched my entries for confirmation for the first use of the word, and came across this:

February 8, 2005 - Bill O’Reilly’s a Paranoid Delusional

Yeah, Simon Cowell needs coaching from his staff because he’s a milquetoast and Bill O’Reilly’s a hardass. To quote my favourite sublogger, he’s an asshat.

Because we’re [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

So, I remember in the 1990, 1992, 1994 — somewhere in there — election, a bunch of chicks were running for Congress and the news that women in politics would usher in a new age of caring, sensitive, and harmonious government reached even my 10-, 12-, 14-or-so-year-old ears. Which even then I thought was [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - Kremlin gave order to kill dissident and former spy, claims top defector

Oleg Gordievsky, the most senior KGB agent to defect to Britain, said that the attempt to kill Mr Litvinenko had been state-sponsored. It was carried out by a Russian friend and former colleague who had been [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

The Times - After 221 years, the world’s leading newspaper shows off a fresh face, by David Driver, Head of design A different headline fount leads the changes to make The Times sharper and more accessible to the reader

Mr Brody [award-winning designer who directed the change] said: “Times Modern is a contemporary answer to [...]

Categories: History

Monday’s edition of The Washington Post says a secret review commissioned by Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Peter Pace outlines three alternatives for Iraq

Amazing how General Pace can do this without a) notifying the international press and b) constantly leaking to the international press. The three alternatives are in the title:

FOXnews [...]

Categories: War and Peace