Sounds like an Indiana Jones movie, right? Or maybe a half-hour cartoon? About a week ago archaeologists in Turkey claimed to have discovered the tomb of Nasreddin, a heavily fictionalized character in medieval Middle Eastern and Central Asian literature. Nasreddin Hoca, or Mulla Nasruddin, or Nasreddin Efendi, or any of the many other ways he's … Continue reading The tomb of the Wise Fool

So it looks like Bashar al-Assad has used chemical weapons against rebel forces in Syria. President Obama, having previously referred to the use of chemical weapons in the Syrian conflict as "a game changer," or a "red line," or some equally faux-macho vapidity, is understandably interested in letting all the facts come in before America … Continue reading what is to be done about syria?

Earlier today, NBA center Jason Collins became the first male athlete in any of the four major North American sports leagues (NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL, which is somehow included in this list despite the fact that, and I say this as a huge hockey fan, you know). Most of the reaction was positive and … Continue reading you get a cookie! part 6 of ???: tim brando

It looks like it might be time for another edition of "what some folks out there are saying": It has been suggested by some that Fox News' Andrea Tantaros is actually a Reptiloid operative tasked with weakening public trust in media in advance of a full Reptiloid attack on the planet Earth. Obviously we here … Continue reading what some are saying

I'm trying to think of the right name for the peculiarly Beltway condition whereby the actual harm a politician does to countless numbers of people while in office can be countered by a story of the one time that politician showed basic human decency to one person in a way that didn't substantially change anything. … Continue reading should we call it “lanny davis disease”?

...it very likely looks something like this: A couple of weeks ago, we learned that the flagging news network is looking to revive Crossfire, the horror show of partisan bickering that it featured for more than two interminable decades beginning in the early 1980s. When Jon Stewart went on the show in late 2004 and … Continue reading when a “news” network trolls the world

This is astonishing. Here's a transcript, courtesy of Media Matters (since the cheapo version of WP won't embed iframe): KILMEADE: But when we get the guy, we can't say -- first we're going to tell them you have the right to remain silent. Fantastic. So the bombs that could be exploding and the plots unfolding, … Continue reading you get a cookie! part 5 of ???: brian kilmeade

On Friday, The Daily Beast, or Newsweek, or The Daily News Beast, or whatever they call themselves, assigned a reporter to write about Tamerlan Tsarnaev's namesake. I can only assume that the same high quality journalistic enterprise that keeps trolling America by publishing nonsense from Sad British Imperialist Niall Ferguson (see Noah Smith for some … Continue reading What’s in a name?

Here is a person who is an elected public official in the great state of Arkansas, this morning: I wonder how many Boston liberals spent the night cowering in their homes wishing they had an AR-15 with a hi-capacity magazine? #2A — Nate Bell (@NateBell4AR) April 19, 2013 We may not know "how many Boston … Continue reading you get a cookie! part 4 of ???: state rep. nate bell (r-ar)