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Imminent Death of the Net predicted once again, this time due to Instant Messenging. We’ve been hearing this forever. I remember when the first AOL people arrived in the early 90s, suddenly everyone was...

Yeah Adam, whatever. Now committed to a psychiatric hospital, once upon a time Adam Ant was cool and hip. He was even the star in Derek Jarman’s wonderfully incoherent and sexy Jubilee punk movie....

This is a great article about the split in the Palestinian Authority between the older Arafat-aligned clique and the younger, go-for-broke types. With all the disagreements between Nationalists and Fundamentalist Islamists, it’s unsettlingly like...

So this is the Helmand Restaurant in North Beach, owned by one of the brothers of the new Afghan boss, Karzai. Earlier here.

Good backgrounder on Mullah Omar: As part of the Taliban’s war on decadence, Omar had banned all forms of music, but riding in his SUV he liked to pop in a CD of Saraji,...

Second part of that ecstasy tourism book, this time they’re in Cape Town, South Africa. And a review. I asked Sophie what she did for a living. “Well, Mark’s an accountant,” she announced with...

[The priest] replaced his vanity license tag FRTHOM on his 2000 Jeep Cherokee when he traveled to his Bourbon Street condo to pick up drugs.

Joining the dots about 9/11 is becoming easier. This article reveals: UNOCAL, a Texan oil company, lavishly entertained Taliban Mullahs back in 1997, and promised to start paying them inducements in order to close...

Red Cross says Taliban prisoners in the Cuban Gulag should be POWs.

My Secret Identity.