By • Oct 29,2008

One step forward, two steps back?

Yes, there are reasons not to do things like this: DAMASCUS, Syria – Syria threatened Wednesday to cut off security cooperation along the Iraqi border if there are more American...

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...