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US First Lady Laura Bush joins breast cancer survivors at the Pink Majlis in Abu Dhabi as part of a week-long tour of the Middle East to raise awareness of breast cancer

I thought that was actually a kind of cute picture. Check out the pink ribbon on the lady on the right.

Categories: People and Current Events

It’s weird. I just can’t get myself worked up over Pakistan. Probably because I think it’s a lost cause. Turkey, on the other hand, just depresses me, mostly because I missed an Instapundit link to something that I could have used, but here’s a replacement (if blogging’s been slow, besides the obvious reason, this a-hole [...]

Categories: War and Peace

Vanderleun had this up weeks and weeks ago (I’m on the laptop’s trackpad so I’m gonna have to skate on finding a link right now) (actually I’m gonna say he probably had the version at the bottom) (and, I wanna say, what the heck is this embed code of theirs? It’s about seven lines long), [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Grandma died today.

I wrote up an obituary for her. Some highlights: She was born December 30, 1916 in Hoquiam, WA. She met my grandfather when they were in high school, and they got married April 20, 1940, and moved to California the following year. She moved into the house, which she designed herself, in 1948, [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

Alan Coren was the first columnist I ever read regularly, knew by name or went looking for.

The Times Obituary - Alan Coren Humorist whose witty observations on life graced print journalism and the airwaves and are enshrined in several books

The Times - Cricklewood Man Farewell to Alan Coren and his unique wit and wisdom

Here’s an interesting, and [...]

Categories: Business & Media

The Times - A history of trouble in the NW Frontier. Graham Stewart, History Notebook

But before accusations of neglecting duty are heaped upon President Musharraf’s predecessors, it is well to recall that the British Raj also kept as much distance as it could from taking responsibility for what are now known as the [...]

Categories: History

So, the winning bid for Rush’s letter from Harry Reid et al went for $2,100,100.00, which Rush is matching, going to the Marine Corps Law Enforcement Foundation, upon whose board he is a member. I was going to put this as my Funniest Item of the Day on Sunday, then maybe Monday, but I [...]

Categories: Politics

The Times - The US is a great place to be anti-American, by Gerard Baker

Anti-Americanism is on the wane at last. All over the world, Americans are being fêted once again as farsighted, liberating heroes. Al Gore has won a Nobel Peace Prize, an Oscar and an Emmy, the triple [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

All articles by Charles Bremner in Paris.

Times Online - Secret divorce for Nicolas Sarkozy as Cecilia poses for magazine

The divorce will be finalised in six weeks, Le Monde newspaper said. Mr Sarkozy delayed word of the separation in the hope that his wife, who had left him before, would change her mind, it [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

BBC - French president and wife divorce

Rats.

Categories: People and Current Events

The Times - This is my oath: I will never give in to tyranny, by Benazir Bhutto

For 60 years my nation has lurched between dictatorships and democracy. Pakistan has been stifled by political oppression and economic stagnation. For almost a decade we have been ruled by a military dictatorship. For the past five [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

Some of you already know my fondness for the entertainment blog TMZ. One of my other (less-guilty?) pleasures is Holy Smoke, one of the Telegraph’s blogs. Sure it’s religious content rather than poor Britney Spears’ custody battles or fights in the valet line at Koi, but the salaciousness is the same. Anyway, the [...]

Categories: People and Current Events

The Telegraph - Vladimir Putin in Teheran

Bla, bla, bla, then at the end:

Mr Putin may come to regret the games he is at present glad to play with a serious source of instability on his southern flank.

Regret because it’ll be too late, meaning no one else is planning on doing anything to stop [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs

It’s book season again.

The Times - Lit Crit Sit Literary critics, reviewers, and the incestuous art of logrolling

Presenting the Man Booker Prize last night, Howard Davies referred to a curious habit of literary critics. Their curious habit is to review each other’s books fulsomely. Author X selects Author Y’s novel as her Book of [...]

Categories: Art and Literature

The Times - The lavish jungle retreat that is a world away from Burma’s poor The Times has a rare glimpse inside the new capital that the military dictatorship is building for itself

Even before you arrive in Naypyidaw, it is obvious that the world’s newest capital is a place like no other in Burma. [...]

Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs