Now that Game of Thrones has wrapped up its third season, another prominent fantasy dynasty has volunteered to fill in for the summer: … News Corp. boss Rupert Murdoch and his third wife, Wendi Deng, are splitting, Deadline Hollywood reports (confirmed here). The 82-year-old Murdoch reportedly filed for divorce this morning in New York State …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Library
Charlie Savage, in the NYTImes: GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — The prison library here is housed in a prefabricated building behind chain-link fencing and razor wire inside Camp Delta, an older, largely disused wing of the complex. Inside, the place has the feel of a branch library, with several rooms of books divided by language and …
Late Night Open Thread: Ghoulish
Say what you will about urban legends — sometimes the Scriptwriting God doesn’t even try for verisimilitude: MASANJIA, China — The cry for help, a neatly folded letter stuffed inside a package of Halloween decorations sold at Kmart, traveled 5,000 miles from China into the hands of a mother of two in Oregon. Scrawling in …
Democracies
Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Stolen from Mr. Charles P. Pierce: “Democracy is the most vile form of government… democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention: have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property: and have in general been as short …
Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Smaaaaaaaugh!
(h/t commentor spudvol) Still haven’t watched the first Hobbit movie, but I may have to be more diligent about catching this one while it’s still in theatres, because Benedict Cumberbach plays my favorite character in the original novel. What’s on the agenda for today?
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Guantanamo Update: Yossarian Wept
Since the local tribalists are getting boooored trying to outdo each other coming up with inventive ways to punish Ed Snowden, here’s a new chewtoy for the excuse generator. Via McClatchy, Carol Rosenberg, longterm reporter on Guantanamo for the Miami Herald: New layer of secrecy emerges at Guantanamo court GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba — …
The Way We Live Now: Rent-to-Own Tires
At first I thought this was a parody, but I should’ve known better. From the LATimes: When the tires on their Dodge Caravan had worn so thin that the steel belts were showing through, Don and Florence Cherry couldn’t afford to buy a new set. So they decided to rent instead. The Rich Square, N.C., …