A follow-up to my several previous posts on propaganda and its use during wartime.  From Reuel Marc Gerecht, writing in the Washington Post: Once again we are confronted with stories about how the Pentagon and its ubiquitous private contractors are undermining free inquiry in Iraq. “Muslim Scholars Were Paid to Aid U.S. Propaganda,” reports the New York Times. Journalists, intellectuals or clerics taking money from Uncle Sam or, in this

I like cake alright.  But for breakfast, cereal is the yummiest!  Unless you have a maid, of course.  In that case, blueberry pancakes are the way to go.  Totally outta sight! …Say, who feels like making a big bowl of popcorn and watching the game show channel with me?

Army Porn—a novel.  By the very talented (and slightly off-center) Fred Schoeneman (in PDF). Congrats, Fred! 

In the long history of idiotic and confused responses to my (all-too) frequent arguments detailing the way manufactured and carefully-crafted narrative is disseminated, popularized, and then used to prove the very premise it sets out to authenticate, this extended assemblage of curiously cobbled-together twaddle by one “InkDog” just might set the record for sophomoric incoherence.  After all, faux-intellectual engagement is one thing; but when you find yourself declaring that your

Ray Smith sends along this bit from NRO’s Michael Ledeen suggesting—almost off-handedly in a disquisition on the changing demographic of the Islamic terror movment (and by way of Iranian sources)—that UBL is dead and buried: There’s an old Chinese theory according to which the best way to understand historical events is not to reconstruct the sequence of “causes” by which the events were “produced,” but rather to look at the

SCOTUSBlog is liveblogging the Alito hearings, which thus far, from what I’ve been able to catch of them, is simply a series of grandstanding, self-righteous Senatorial speeches designed to “warn” Alito that he need be specific in his answers (Joe Biden, for instance, couldn’t “fathom” how the Founding Fathers would’ve wanted potential SC Justices to decide cases right there in the hearing rooms, so that we could appoint judges confident

QandO’s Jon Henke breaks his blog shackles and pens a Tech Central Station column on the rhetoric and reality of wages and compensation in the US.  In short, he says, we’re doing better than the data-mining from Paul Krugman and the Democratic Party would have us believe.  From “‘Real Wage’ Slaves?”: In the Census Bureau’s 2005 Report on Alternative Income Estimates in the United States: 2003, it’s true that Median

me: “Uh, dude?  I can’t feel my hands or fingers.” Klonopin:  “I know, awesome, isn’t it? And if you close your eyes and tug on yourself just so, it almost feels like some totally hot stranger’s doing you a naughty naughty solid.”

“The apathy of most of America is stunning and appalling to me, Billy. For instance, on December 12, 2005, Dear Leader admitted that his illegal war for oil and Zion has slaughtered 30,000 Iraqi civilians.  Even if one accepts this very low guesstimate by King George, there is no denying that his policies have been responsible for ten times the 3000 deaths of September 11, 2001. Which means that by