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Strange

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Over at CT, Kieran Healy discusses this site, which -- in addition to letting us know that there are 35 people named "Scott Lemieux," 709 named "Robert Farley," 1,954 named "David Watkins" and 39 people unfortunate enough to go by "David Noon" -- alsosuggests that the...

Les Schtroumpfs

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On October 23, 2006

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The Smurfs turn 48 today. I always hated the little blue bastards. Nonetheless, I appreciate their tough stance on the costs and consequences of aerial warfare.Their positions on Communism and.

Baghdad

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Worse than you could imagine.Every day the corpses pile up in the capital like discarded furniture — at curbside, in lots, in waterways and sewer lines; every day the executioners return. A city in which it was long taboo to ask, "Are you Sunni or Shiite?"...

Stupidity and Arrogance

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On October 22, 2006

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Everyone has gone batshit over the State Department official who confessed on al-Jazeera that things haven't gone so swimmingly in Iraq and that the United States has displayed, among other.

Kaplan: Strike Two

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For reasons Tim Lambert explains in detail, I think Matt is being far too generous to Fred Kaplan's attempt to discredit the Lancet study, which doesn't seem to be any better than his first. Particularly hackish is Kaplan's argument that the study's pre-war mortality rates are...
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