Author: mike

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...

We yearn for a grand unified theory of Bushism that would put the two halves of the agenda together. Now, at last, with the revelation that Ahmad Chalabi has been passing intelligence information to...

One of the funniest recent lines on The Daily Show was Jon Stewart intoning “What the fuck *does* George Tenet have to do to get fired?”. Apparently, it was a slam dunk in the...

In an unusual arrangement, two months before the invasion began, the chief correspondent for the [New York] Times, Patrick E. Tyler, who was in charge of overseeing the papers war coverage, hired Chalabis niece,...

In 1994, Baer said, he went with Chalabi to visit “a forgery shop” that the I.N.C. had set up inside an abandoned schoolhouse in Salahuddin, a town in Kurdistan. “It was something like a...

Suppose you load compressed hydrogen into canisters and put them on the back of tractor trailers: you will need fifteen of these trucks to serve the same number of vehicles as one gasoline tanker...

Trainers brought four wolves to the set of The Day After Tomorrow … scenes were filmed using real wolves, and then later, in post production, [computer generated] wolves were substituted. A trainer put the...

One time I was having a conversation with some in-laws (a brother and a sister) who were in their late 90s and still totally alert. They were old enough to tell me of their...