Woody Allen on proxies: ANTON LEBEDOKOV: Shall we say pistols at dawn? BORIS GRUSHENKO: Well, we can say it. I don't know what it means, but we can say it. ANTON: You have insulted the honor of Countess Alexandrovna! BORIS: Why? I let her finish first? ANTON: Her seconds will call on you. BORIS: Seconds? … Continue reading proximity fuze (qusayr, syria, and the potential for a new fitna)

Richard Cohen still has a prestigious and presumably high-paying job telling people what to think on the Washington Post editorial page, despite the fact that he once wrote that Colin Powell's Iraq farce at the UN "had to prove to anyone that Iraq not only hasn't accounted for its weapons of mass destruction but without … Continue reading Did you know that “Richard Cohen” is an anagram for “chance horrid”?

Turkey: Large protests against the government of Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan continued into a second day in cities all across the nation. The protests, which began as a relatively minor episode of civil disobedience in Istanbul to protest the bulldozing and redevelopment of one of that city's few green spaces, Gezi Park, have grown considerably … Continue reading this week in oppressive government violence