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We look like assholes . . . again. Pravda : [. . .] During the first week of talks, over 1,500 delegates from 189 nations put Washing...

Last night I was clicking around the TV guide and came across Insomniac with Dave Attell on Comedy Central. That's a funny show: He goe...

That's the White House word du jour when talking about Social Security. Froomkin : If you only heard a sound bite or two from Presid...

Go read "Ten Commandments Eggsplained In Footnotes" at The Wandering Hillbilly . Thanks, cleek .

Via Cookie Jill , guest blogging for Skippy: WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency issued new voluntary guidelines Thursday ...

Chapter 4 of Empires is up over at creativity . . . And for the 2nd weekend in a row, the Cattle Dog will not be making an appearance....

WASHINGTON ( CNN ) -- One week after President Bush's nominated him to be secretary of homeland security, former New York Police Commiss...

On a lighter note, yet incisive, go read this at AlterNet . The P.U.-litzer Prizes were established a dozen years ago to provide special re...

More on Rumbo from Fred Kaplan at Slate. As far as I am concerned, the more journalists, pundits, retired military talking heads, bloggers,...

Dec. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Armor Holdings Inc., the sole supplier of protective plates for the Humvee military vehicles used in Iraq, said it co...

This is one of the side effects of seeing our troops as only cannon fodder and deck apes. As Gordon noted below here and here , potential ...

Via P.O.'d Patricia over at Blondie's . As regulars know, I bitch all the time about the little-dick Chickenhawks who've never ...

This is one of my favorite places in the whole wide world. There's nothing quite like it this side of the Sahara . I never miss the chan...

From UPI via the WaTimes: U.S. veterans from the war in Iraq are beginning to show up at homeless shelters around the country, and advocat...

I'm by no means a war lover, but I will cop to being an amateur military historian, so this is big news. I love the Discovery Channel an...

Kevin Doughten in the NYTimes has a cool take on Christmas shopping in light of the current brouhaha about steroids. How did this happen? I...

As long as we're on about Rumsfeld, I thought Maureen Dowd had some good points in her Op-Ed in the NYTimes . Hoooo-rah! Rummy finally ...

I read this article in the December 13 Time magazine. After reading Fixer's post (or scroll down a teeny bit) on deserters, I thought ...

This editorial in today's NYTimes is about Rumbo's visit to the troops in Kuwait. We're used to hearing Defense Secretary Dona...