Here’s the deal: I’m going to blog this Islamabad blast every day for a while, try to talk honestly about how to sift through the crap to try to figure out what’s really going on. It should be a good…
Sep 21, 2008 | Comments Off on War Nerd Islamablog: Day 2
BREAKING WARNEWS! You’ve probably heard by now that Al Qaeda just zapped the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. A truck blew up while security was going over it with sniffer dogs. At least the dogs died happy, I suppose. Those sniffer…
Sep 20, 2008 | Comments (1)
John McCain is making a big show of criticizing the government “bailout” of insurance giant AIG. But it turns out that AIG, which received $85 billion in US tax dollars earlier this week, is one of the largest donors to…
Sep 19, 2008 | Comments Off on John Mc-AIG-n: Insurance Industry Bitch
Meerkat: Heresy; Elephant Shrew: Orthodox Daily Inquisition: The Animals Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: A child believes in many creatures unworthy of its faith, like the Komodo Dragon, revealed on mature inspection to be a mere hypertrophied alligator lizard which…
Sep 19, 2008 | Comments Off on Daily Inquisition: The Animals
No this isn’t from the mugshot section of Smoking Gun. These are official portraits of the men in the Russian Duma, which is what they call the parliament around those parts. Looking at these caring faces, you just know that…
Sep 19, 2008 | Comments Off on Faces Of Death: Russia’s Duma Deputy Hunks
Joe “Strummer”: the hippie behind the mohawk. Today’s Defendant: Joe Strummer Statement of the Grand Inquisitor: The damnation of this walking forgery is a matter of choice: for which of his many unpunished crimes should he be damned? For the…
Sep 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Daily Inquisition: Joe Strummer
Last summer, I grossed out a bunch of my guests at a small party I had at my apartment. We watched a gruesome beheading video that was posted on the Internet that day. The video showed two masked Russian skinheads…
Sep 18, 2008 | Comments Off on Russian Hate Crime: Brutal Beheading Caught on Tape, Case Solved?
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