Monthly Archive: May 2002

X-Files aside, the UN is finally making “official” what everyone has known for ages: we are currently living through one of the Great Extinctions of life on this planet. So far five have been...

Foreign Affairs has a nice Sharon backgrounder, which puts a lot of stuff into context: His current policy of hitting PA installations to retaliate for terror attacks on Israelis developed in the 1950s, when...

Weird echoes of the last time a car bomb removed an enemy of Ariel Sharon. This time, a car bomb in Beirut killed the son of the leader of an anti-Israel group, the Popular...

So like pretty much every regular military commander before him faced with a guerilla war (in this case, commanding the Brits in Afghanistan against the “Al Qaeda/Taliban “AQT”) Brigadier Roger Lane has complained that...

So this klepto steals a billion dollars of art, and will get a pretty light sentence. Admittedly, his chances improved because his mother destroyed all the artwork evidence. Not many people (except dotcom CEOs)...

This is a really especially well written article from Charles Glass, the Middle East writer. He points out that Arafat has survived military actions against him by an array of Middle Eastern leaders. Over...

It’s been a while since I had a bestiality story, but this one has it all: Enraged by finding his partner in a sexual act with a dog, a Westport man grabbed a sawn-off...

So with all this current hoopla about whether or not the Bush Gang should have done more to thwart the attack on the WTC, given the reports from field agents, it is perhaps interesting...

I saw this great satire on Slashdot: CORUSCANT — Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while recent victories over the Rebel...

Everyone is descended from royalty, apparently. This seems trivial when you think of it in terms of exponential powers of two. A thousand years ago, for example, each of us has this many direct...