Several dozen men (who allegedly arrived in the city by boats) attacked seven to ten different sites, including the domestic airport, the city's biggest railway station, a dockyard, two hospitals, the city's Chabad-Lubovitch center, several popular marketplaces, a highway, and two luxury hotels, one of which caught on fire. According to eyewitness ( Read more... )

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Reading the G20's official declaration from their summit last weekend... and oh, man, did the US ever take a beating. Well, liberalism took a beating, but as its staunchest supporter at this point, that basically means the US. And some of the blame fingers are pretty blatantly obvious.

G20: in ur economy, regulating ur markets.

The hilarity of Newt Gingrich trying to portray himself as "post-partisan" is almost as hilarious as the word "post-partisan" itself.

Also, I'm told we're in a post-ironic age; that I am a member of the post-ironic generation. What in the hell is a post-ironic age?

Perhaps the primary reason that the American auto industry is collapsing now is not that their cars are simply inferior to foreign imports from Japan, Germany, Korea, etc - convenient though that narrative might be. Instead, the biggest problem is that over the past 5-7 years, US auto manufacturers made the decision to focus on large SUVs rather ( Read more... )

More about the "OMG teh blacks did it!":

"Exit polls suggest that first-time voters -- the vast majority of whom were driven to turn out by Obama (he won 83 percent [!] of their votes) -- voted against Prop 8 by a 62-38 margin. More experienced voters voted for the measure 56-44, however, providing for its passage.

Now, it's true that if new voters ( Read more... )

Will someone better educated than myself please tell me about Edmund Burke? Beyond Wikipedia ( Read more... )

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Just in case anyone doubted that Miami is more rightly a part of Latin America than of the US ( Read more... )

(Yes, when I'm procrastinating I catch up on pop music. What?)

( Okay, I've now also listened to Ur So Gay, also by Katy Perry. )