all that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned
Prince Philip does it again. The drunken philandering idiot of “slitty eyes” fame displayed his usual diplomat i c skill when visiting some Australian aborigines. Other great Royal S tud lines: "Brit ish wo...
And four grandchildren! Sibling couple Samuel Thomas Patrick (52) and Debra Lynn Patrick (44) kept a casket cont a ining the body of their infant son inside their remote home for 12 years. The...
Future social historians will undoubtedly find one of the major paradoxes of this age was the purchase of kid-killing minivans by child-transporting parents. When a minivan with a third-row occupant is hit from behind,...
Shadow Governm e nt Activated for US So it is true. Dick Cheney is running the country and Bush and most of Congress are on display as, well, basically the biggest decoy/lure ever. The...
Three reviews of Ben Laden : La vérité interdite French-only book (not yet published in English and for this fact alone many people smell conspiracy). John Emerson’s review is the best of the bunch,...
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...