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...

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,...