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- Life in DC
I’ve never lived in Washington DC, but Lord knows I want to someday. Along with San Francisco, it’s my favorite city in the US: nice people, nice weather, nice landscape, and an overall fun place.
But Philalawyer has totally rained on my parade, giving a brutal account of post-college graduation life in the city.
Stacy had [...]
- The Review of the Review of the Review
Tom Barnett frequently publishes his “reviews of reviews” on his blog where he comments on media coverage of his book The Pentagon’s New Map. Younghusband reviewed PNM alongside G. Friedman’s America’s Secret War last month and Barnett gave his review of the review here and here.
YH liked the book and, not surprisingly, Barnett liked [...]
- The Smell of Hope
Suicide attacks in Israel, and this is the headline:
Palestinians Angry Over Tel Aviv Attack
JENIN, West Bank – Palestinians expressed anger Saturday at an overnight suicide bombing in Tel Aviv that killed four Israelis and threatened a fragile truce, a departure from former times when they welcomed attacks on their Israeli foes.
Crap, that’s the news in [...]
- Tally Ho!!
Time to rush over to Pyongyang Art Studio and pick up your SOCIALIST REALISM PROPAGANDA POSTERS!
Brought to you by Saru.
- By Iranians, for Iranians
Check out this “History of Iran” sent to me by one of my friends in Tehran.
- A question of sovereignty
Well, it was finally announced. Canada has publicly opted out of the controversial US-proposed ballistic missile defense system. This argument has been going on for years now, with Canada’s Liberal government expertly stradling the fence. In the past week there have been some astounding developments with one official coming forward and saying Canada was already [...]
- Y2007 Problem
For those of you disappointed that the Y2000 disaster never came, take heart: another problem, albeit Japan-specific, is looming in 2007.
The “Y2007 Problem” became a buzzword a couple of years ago in Japan when industry insiders observed that Japan’s post-war baby boomers, the seven million strong born between 1947 and 1949, will start retiring en [...]
- Totally Random: Ebonics Lesson
So I am on this Rappers = Bloggers hit, which I think is great coz I like both, and I stumble on this brilliant piece. An Oakland high school district had an ebonics translation competition where students were to translate the lyrics of a song by late rapper Notorious BIG aka Biggie Smalls. Apparently the [...]
- The power to make it FUNNIER
Re: this, see this.
Heheheh. Cheers to Spacefish.
- Balkan Ghosts Exerpt
Balkan Ghosts is a pretty horrific book. Sources close to former President Bill Clinton report that the president read the manuscript shortly after publication, greatly influencing his decision not to commit US ground troops to the region in the early 1990s (and only attack with air strikes when the conflict reached a crisis point [...]
