Daily Archive: February 28, 2002
So I read in the Guardian that the US-installed Karzai controls little of Afghanistan beyond his presidential palace in Kabul. Meanwhile, the traditional north/south ethnic divide in Afghanistan is spilling over into renewed conflict...
Sometimes rags like the Wall Street Journal manage to publish something that’s so spectacularly conceited it takes my breath away. Europeans, not Ottomans, colonized central and southern Africa, Asia and the Pacific and the...
I liked this extensive history of Islam. What a cool way to rub the nose of the King of France into the dust. I who am the Sultan of Sultans, the sovereign of sovereigns,...
He’s an ungodly one-eyed Republican astronaut who must take medication to keep him sane. She’s a scantily clad wisecracking vampire who dreams of becoming Elvis. They fight crime!
The 20th century was the most murderous in recorded history. The total number of deaths caused by or associated with its wars has been estimated at 187m, the equivalent of more than 10% of...
So this rich pig farmer went on a killing spree in Vancouver. because he was killing hookers, the police didn’t really care, even when stabbed and bleeding prostitutes escaped running in terror from his...