Monthly Archive: June 2004

An arrest warrant has been issued for Ahmed Chalabi’s right-hand man in Baghdad, the American consultant Francis Brooke … an Iraqi judge said that Mr Brooke had obstructed the Iraqi police. He is believed...

A number of news sources have already proclaimed Mr. Reagan the most popular president of modern times. In fact, though Mr. Reagan was very popular in 1984 and 1985, he spent the latter part...

It’s been confirmed: President Bush is above the law, both of the United States and of human decency. Memos from last year confirm that elements within the White House sought, and were “given”, the...

People have been doing silly things on bikes for along time. Here’s an early forerunner of the X Games from 1904 Berlin:

Dick Cheney on Meet the Press September, 2003: Russert asked, “Were you involved in any way in the awarding of those contracts?” Cheney’s reply: “Of course not, Tim … And as Vice President, I...

Matt “Metafilter” Haughey called me a “Google Master” for this old piece. I am not sure whether that’s a necessarily desirable epithet. I think it’s more related to excess pottering time and basic goofing...

News of the ill-treatment of prisoners in Iraq created no great surprise in republican Ireland. We have seen and heard it all before. Some of us have even survived that type of treatment. Suggestions...

There’s a new movie out, The Corporation, that manages to skirt the issue of the psychopathology of corporatism. You don’t have to be a sociopath to work here but it helps? Here’s a quick...

Armitage acknowledged that in Najaf, “the Badr Corps, as far as I know independently, have conducted some what I’d call low-level operations against the [Sadr’s] Mahdi Army.” That means we have incurred some debt...

American officials appear to have resigned themselves to working with militias in Falluja, Baghdad and elsewhere even as American soldiers die fighting them in street battles in Karbala and Najaf … In Falluja, the...