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I dunno, see. I don’t have cable anymore.

Telegraph - Iran’s hangmen work overtime to silence opposition. By Con Coughlin

Stonings, hangings, floggings, purges. President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad might claim that United Nations sanctions can’t hurt his country, but that is not how it feels for Iran’s long-suffering population which now finds itself on the receiving [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Hollywood Reporter - Focus won’t sweat NC-17 for ‘Lust’; Schamus won’t ‘change a frame’

I won’t quote any of it, but paragraphs 3, 4, and 5 especially are just hilarious. But don’t worry, it’s all very delicately put forward.

Categories: Entertainment

The Times - Cheer up. A bit of a crisis does us no harm Our columnist on the amazing buoyancy of the global markets, by Gerard Baker

In the good old days of the Cold War, when the West had one of its periodic financial panics, we always had the Soviets on hand to remind [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Times - Why Democrats dread hearing the V-word Vietnam: a lesson in fouling up the endgame, by Rosemary Righter

Why did he do it? Why conjure up unquiet ghosts? Why now? Vietnam is not only, as President Bush rather flatly put it, “a complex and painful subject” for Americans. The V-word is lodged in [...]

Categories: War and Peace

(Remember this?)

Courier-Mail - Gingers extinct in 100 years, say scientists

REDHEADS are becoming rarer and could be extinct in 100 years, according to genetic scientists. The current National Geographic magazine reports that less than two per cent of the world’s population has natural red hair, created by a mutation in northern [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

I link to this:

Wheat & Weeds - Not Every Tale Condemns Him For A Villain

Because it gives me an excuse to link to one of my all-time favourite mystery novels: The Daughter of Time.

In other words: Josephine Tey’s right.

Categories: History

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Besides the floral arrangements, I especially like how the holding of the pistol to the chest in front of the pastoral Swiss backdrop was so popular. Taliban Heidi.

Update:

Firefox users: This video is from a different source than usual and its code is screwing you guys up. So, buy a Mac and [...]

Categories: War and Peace

This made me laugh: Gerard van der Leun picks up on my link to RC2, and hat-tips me with, “Ninme — Your local source for distant newspaper content.” So I’m now regularly the inimitable ninme, Queen of Links (or QoL for short) and “my dearest ninme” (or, alternatively, “my sweet, dear ninme“).

Categories: Wildcard

Wheat & Weeds - # 1 Sign We’re Winning In Iraq

So when did this become “our” surge and not “Bush’s”?

Update:

Steyn Online (from Nov, 2003) - CHANGE PARTNERS

History is selective. We remember moments, and, because that moment in Dallas blazes so vividly, everything around it fades to a gray blur. So here, [...]

Categories: War and Peace

The Corner - End The Occupation — Now, by John Hood

Remember when the world-wise, honest, well-meaning Europeans used prudent, multilateral diplomacy rather than American-style brute force to resolve that pesky little Kosovo problem? Apparently, it didn’t take: New talks between ethnic Albanians and Serbia are likely [...]

Categories: War and Peace

I like the bit about the foreign royal heads of state that attended. Especially one in particular, given current… stuff going on. The historical perspective that woman must have.

Categories: History

Telegraph - The battle of Basra

What began as unattributable sniping from anonymous Pentagon sources has turned into a full-throated, on-the-record whinge. Washington does not like what the British military is doing in Basra and doesn’t care who knows it. Retired General Jack Keane, the architect of the American “surge” in Baghdad, broke cover [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Opinion Journal - We Have Met the Enemy, Again What the Deutsche Bank building tells us about what’s wrong with America. BY DANIEL HENNINGER

Since September 11, when so many died across the street from the Deutsche Bank building in lower Manhattan, a great deal of effort has been made to ensure that no more [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

LGF - Seattle Ferry Bong Threat Update

Seattle FBI field office: Fighting terrorism one bong-hit-evacuated-ferry at a time.

Categories: People and Current Events

A Japanese TV promotion for (I guess) the Season 6 DVD release of 24:

Presumably that’s his voice actor singing. Lyrics?

I’m Jack Bauer/ Always in danger/ I’m Jack Bauer/ I never die/ I’m Jack Bauer/ I get pissed easily/ I’m Jack Bauer/ I’m actually a crybaby… I’m Jack Bauer/ To [...]

Categories: Entertainment