I would like to direct your attention to the fact that Turkmenistan is awesome in every way. It is the greatest of the former Soviet Republics because it has "Turk" and "men" right there in the name, so you know you are getting Turks who are men and that is something you can't put a … Continue reading turkmenistan is a wonderful country and very free and happy, because why not?

Intrepid Truth Vigilante Andrea Mitchell hosted intrepid Director of the National Economic Council, Gene Sperling, earlier today to press him on Republican and Villager concerns that President Obama's SOTU ideas for letting the Poors have a little extra cake might cause History's Greatest Evil, the National Debt That Nobody Actually Cares About, to asplode and … Continue reading andrea mitchell is s-m-r-t

This whole horse meat scandal in the UK made me ask two questions: Couldn't anybody tell? Didn't anybody throw up? I grew up in a house where we ate pretty basically, not because of finances but because my dad had (still has) a fairly small range of food that he's willing to eat. We never … Continue reading horse: it’s what’s for dinner?

With my post titles now being shamelessly copied, another question for drone supporters occurs to me: Our current policy under the AUMF is effectively that the President is authorized to attack anyone, anywhere, anytime, as long as some tenuous connection to al-Qaeda can be made. If, instead of drone strikes, our method of attack was … Continue reading and on and on

Oliver Willis, whose writing I respect quite a bit, wrote a piece today that I disagreed with, on the justification for our use of drones in going after elements of al-Qaeda around the world. We had, I think, a civil discussion about it on Twitter afterward, and it left me with some questions for those … Continue reading droning on and on

With the news that their hotly anticipated vaguely mentioned signing of Francisco Liriano is nigh upon us, I think it’s safe to say that Pirates pitchers will be well-represented in the 2007 NL Cy Young race.

We live in an age of hoaxes, conspiracy theories, fake news...call it what you want, the upshot is that there are a lot of people out there making things up and a lot more people believing those phony stories. But while Western Europeans in the 1100s were just beginning to seriously encounter the world outside … Continue reading Prester John

Is our CNNs learning? ABC's Chris Cuomo is headed to CNN to host a new morning show, the network announced Tuesday. ... The Post and TMZ both reported that Zucker intends to pair Cuomo with current 7 PM host Erin Burnett, who also has a background in morning television. No, no they isn't.

As always happens at some point on every Inauguration Day, some drunken DC fool blathers something about celebrating America and her "tradition of peaceful transfers of power" and I guess everyone in the country is traditionally supposed to try to kiss their own asses for being so special or whatever. This year I gather it … Continue reading Today in superficial statistics (peaceful transitions edition)