Unidentified gunmen shot dead a Muslim cleric after he delivered a sermon in the Gaza Strip on Friday calling for an end to fierce factional fighting between Hamas and Fatah, hospital officials and local residents said. The cleric’s shooting in central Gaza came hours after Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh of Hamas said he and President Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah had agreed to keep rival gunmen off Gaza’s streets after

If you are having trouble logging in, clean your cache / reset your cookies and try anew.  A few things:  we’ve added links on the right sidebar that make it easier to add the site to RSS feed aggregators, along with a link to mobile protein wisdom, for those of you who are so hard up for excitement you feel the need to read my twaddle on your BlackBerries while

From Glenn Reynolds: MORE ON COMPACT FLUORESCENT LIGHT: Megan McArdle doesn’t like it: “The problem is that after five minutes of sitting under a compact flourescent bulb, I feel like an extra in a Fellini film. I use one in the range hood, and if I had closet lights, I’d install them there. But there’s no way I’m using them as my primary form of illumination unless legally forced to

A source for over 60 Associated Press stories from Baghdad reportedly is an Iraqi policeman (according to an Iraqi official) and may face arrest for speaking to the AP. Ironically, it is unlikely that anything will happen to the man, so long as the AP continues to refuse to identify him (which makes me less concerned about the heavy-handed MoI tactics here). The AP describes him as the source for

Question for those readers I haven’t chased off with my infamous desire to indiscriminately carpet bomb brown peoples, or with my propensity to exhibit a bloodthirstiness rarely seen outside of a Michael Moore backyard barbecue:  what features would you like to see added to protein wisdom to bring it into the 21st century?  Besides a “progressive” worldview that would put me in line with certain polls and prove to my

First White American President since Clinton has funny way of expressing hatred of brown people. President Bush’s legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort by his administration in foreign affairs: a dramatic increase in U.S. aid to Africa. The president has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world’s most

Kos diarists on Gerald Ford Kos diarists on Saddam Hussein Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? UPDATE: TEHRAN, Iran (AP)—President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad scorned U.N Security Council sanctions imposed against Iran, telling a crowd Tuesday that Iran had humiliated the United States in the past and would do so again. Speaking in the southwestern provincial capital of Ahvaz, Ahmadinejad said the Security Council’s resolution last month was invalid and had left

Scott Burgess’s excellent TDA has been on hiatus since September 18, but Paul Rowntree notifies me that Scott’s back and posting.  So, welcome back, Scott. Today’s edition reflects on climate change, Guardian lunacy, and swimming pool apartheid.  It’s about time, and we can only hope that other beloved blogfigures follow suit swiftly.

No Pasaran! points me toward a great piece on a site I’d never visited before, no-gritaron.blogspot.com, named Marxist By-Products, that stomps the living crap out of Kos diarrheist Wilbur’s expressions of sadness on the death of (poor, misunderstood) Saddam.