A reporter's job these days…
By • Oct 29,2008

Al-Qaeda endorses McCain?

Nicholas Kristof makes light of an al-Qaeda supporter’s endorsement of John McCain in the U.S. presidential election: “Al Qaeda will have to support McCain in the coming election,” read a...

By • Oct 29,2008

Um….yes?

Over at DCist, Sommer has been writing about the MPD’s policy of random searches on the DC metro system: So it’s a consent-based search, but if you refuse to be...

By • Oct 29,2008

Adventures with the Daily Mail

Perhaps it’s because I’m a bad person, but I took rare delight in this article about Bono, narcissist and overrated singer: His humanitarian campaigning has earnt him the nickname St...

By • Oct 29,2008

A Liberal Education in Iraq?

Sometimes we educators in America worry that our universities are becoming too “professional” – that all the old notions of what constitutes a broad liberal education have fallen prey to...

By • Oct 28,2008

Postscript

Sonny points out that I was unclear in my earlier post: I’m talking about the WTC bombing of February 1993, hence the reference to attacking Afghanistan in 2000 or 2001....