* A bombing in Lebanon took out a motorcade, including a politician who was doing a bunch of peace negotiation type things. Odds are high of it being Hezbollah, as he was opposed to them ( Read more... )

* Archaic Colors: http://art.broadwayworld.com/article/Acropolis-Museum-Presents-Archaic-Colors-Exhibit-July-31-20130730Read more... )

* I haven't been talking about Cleveland in this space because frankly, I had nothing new or clever to say. It turns out Chris Hayes does have something important to say about the kidnapper's history of domestic violence and kidnapping of his children over and over. He points out that the general indifference to violence against women played a ( Read more... )

* 2 Million children in Syria have suffered injury, disease and/or malnutrition since the government there started waging all out war on the civilian population ( Read more... )

* I think I failed to mention that yesterday there was another earthquake in the same part of Japan where the big earthquake/tsunami/nuclear disaster was. It was 7.3, but as the area is now only lightly inhabited and the rebuilding was mostly at the cleared rubble stage, it wasn't as bad as it might otherwise have been. People close to the water ( Read more... )