Hopefully Nouri al-Maliki has a plan B in reserve, because plan A is not working. Shiite militias in Basra openly controlled wide swaths of the city on Saturday and staged increasingly bold raids on Iraqi government forces sent in five days ago to wrest control from the gunmen, witnesses said, as Iraqi political leaders grew …
Archives for March 2008
Things I Wish I Had Written
Every now and then I stumble across something I wish I had written. This is one of them: Ordinarily, this is the sort of association that might be disastrous for a presidential campaign, but I’m given to understand that Barack Obama consorts with Angry, Crazed Negroes, so I expect there will be other things for …
Open Thread
By orders of the commenters. Congrats to frequent commenter ZMULLS, who won a song-writing award.
I Only Beat Her Because I Love Her So Much
Alright, it was interesting when Chuck Todd said yesterday that the Clinton campaign is helping Obama by testing him, but coming from James Carville, trying to excuse his repeated “Judas” comments directed at Bill Richardson, it is just obnoxious: Most of the stuff I’ve ever said is pretty insignificant and by in large has been …
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Dying for No Good Reason
I generally have libertarian leanings when it relates to the parent/child relationship, but I can’t help but feel there should be a criminal price for this kind of stupidity: Wisconsin authorities will consider filing charges in the case of an 11-year-old girl who died on Easter Sunday of complications from diabetes that went untreated because …
Threats
Matt Yglesias spends entirely too much time worrying about the threat from robots, pirates and (presumably) robot pirate zombies. The real threat, as everyone knows, is me. Before anyone complains, all I have to ask is whether any of you can sing eight octaves. Can you even find three people who collectively cover eight octaves? …
Open Thread
Late night with Beatallica.