It's getting better all the time: BAGHDAD, Jan 12 (AFP) - Iraq's national electricity supply has fallen well below its level of before the 2003 invasion, a US army commander told reporters Wednesday. Power plants now generate only 3,500-3,600 megawatts daily, far less than the 4,400...
Month: January 2005
Prof. InstaHack thinks this point is so clever it's worth repeating twice: "...why are they "death squads?" I thought that people who did this sort of thing were called "insurgents," in.
Chuckle. Via Atrios.
Some troglodytic schmuck on NPR just minutes ago...."If we grant Al Qaeda members the protections accorded under the Geneva convention, then all any country or group has to do to get Geneva convention protections is to act like Al Qaeda."
Never one to turn down an opportunity to make a meaningless list, I'll take advantage of Matt Yglesias's bleg and name my favorite 80s movies. In the first edition of his Historical.
Yes, after giving rapturously positive reviews (admittedly, after only two episodes of the Season 1 DVD I received for Christmas, but Christ, how many years did they keep Arli$$ on?),.
Jesse Taylor comes through with one of the best paragraphs I've ever read about supporters of the war: The torture brigade isn't really concerned about winning the war. They're playing a videogame in which they don't realize that they may never run out of bullets,...
Maybe not, but it captures my current mood. I've been thinking of writing a political novel. It will be a bad novel because there won't be any nuance: the villains won't.
I don't know how I missed this TCS parody from The Poorman. We owe Andrew Northrup a debt of gratitude. I stumbled onto this link via Ted Barlow, who is having.
So, thinks I, I'll do a little blogging of the hearings for Underminer of Law in General. Sure, I'm in Canada and hence without C-SPAN, but surely CNN will cover the hearings, rather than having Wolf Blitzer conduct pointless interviews and introduce human-interest stories. Okay,...
A score of military officials penning a letter pleading with civilian authorities to display some modicum of respect for human rights. Via Kleiman. And if you think it's odd that they're using.
During the depths of my illness Blogger ate a post I wrote about Amy Sullivan's inevitable post-election abortion column. I had planned to just let it rest, particularly given Atrios' devastating reply,.