From The Observer: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the hardline President of Iran, launched an angry tirade against the West yesterday, accusing it of a ‘dark ages’ mentality and threatening retaliation unless it recognised his country’s nuclear ambitions. In a blistering assault, Ahmadinejad repeated the Islamic regime’s position that it would press ahead with a nuclear programme despite threats by the European Union and United States to refer Iran to the UN Security

me: “Jesus.  Do you have any idea what time it is, man?  I thought you were supposed to help me sleep and whatnot?” Klonopin: “Dude, you are asleep.  Have been for hours.  And for the record? Calling your pillow ‘Elle MacPherson’ and screaming for her to ‘take it all, like a high-priced divorce attorney,’ while you hump the thing like a crazed Border Collie is not only not sexy— but

Via Allah at Link Mecca, a chilling foray into speculative history by Niall Ferguson, Laurence A. Tisch Professor of History at Harvard University.  From the Telegraph UK: Are we living through the origins of the next world war? Certainly, it is easy to imagine how a future historian might deal with the next phase of events in the Middle East: With every passing year after the turn of the century,

When you have a chance to put points on the scoreboard, take the freakin’ points!  Take them, fold them neatly in a hankerchief, and stuff them into your pocket.  For later. Then—when and if you need them—there they are, tucked securely in your pocket!  And if you don’t need them, you can always give them to some muddy-shoed homeless dude who stumbles into the intersection at Cherry Creek and First

Don’t.  Just don’t. **** (Via Lauren, who, I have to admit, can drink like a fucking sailor)

From the Washington Post’s Eli Saslow, we learn of this bit offensive PC nonsense, from the Seattle Times: To avoid insulting native American heritage, the Seattle Times decided to limit severely the use of the term Redskins in the paper—even if a team with that name will dominate news coverage this week. The Times will not use the moniker in headlines or captions. Reporters can use it only once, as

Go. Do it.  BECAUSE OF THE POTATO PANCAKES—AND THE GIRLS WHO WOULDN’T EVEN TOUCH YOU OVER THE CHINOS UNLESS YOU PROMISED TO TAKE THEM TO RED LOBSTER! The materialistic whores.

—Yeah, well, good luck.  The little bastard has been reading up on FISA exemptions and is convinced he’s found a perfectly legal way to wiretap his ex-girlfriends happy box—just so long as he routes the intel grab outside of the US by way of long-range carrier pigeons with GPS transponders duct taped to their knobskinny bird legs. In one sense, it’s kinda creepy:  a lonesome and jealous armadillo sitting in

The following is a joint statement issued on behalf of a number of bloggers concerned with the forthcoming House leadership elections; the text was prepared by NZ Bear: We are bloggers with boatloads of opinions, and none of us come close to agreeing with any other one of us all of the time. But we do agree on this: The new leadership in the House of Representatives needs to be

For those who would insist—out of both ideological and (subsequently) narrative necessity—that Iraq’s oblique, secular-Baathist relationship with the fundamentalist regime of al Qaeda (a characterization that relies on the carefully-worded dodge that the Hussein’s regime showed “no evidence of operational ties” to bin Laden’s group [see the 911 Commission Report], a formulation that means, simply, that none of any number of potentially developed and financed plans were ever provably completed),