Russia has brokered a deal (shades of Trumpsky!) to create truce zones in Syria. It actually sounds workable ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, we watched President Obama's insight-filled speech to the UN General Assembly -- an annual event that nicely parallels the traditional "state of the nation" speech US presidents give to Congress in January ( Read more... )

James Fallows, senior editor at The Atlantic magazine, has started an all-out attack on Trumpsky. (Not in so many words, but evidently because opinion polling now shows the LYING demagogue in the fucking LEAD! Other important commentators also have "taken off the boxing gloves" -- afraid the country seems to be slipping into all-out catastrophe ( Read more... )

According to today's Washington Post On-Line, Rupert Murdoch has just got engaged to Jerry Hall, the curvy ex-girlfriend of Mick Jagger ( Read more... )

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Once in a while, even in the checkered places I wander on Tumblr, there's something inexplicably COOL -- and this pair seems to make me

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So we just watched the Redskins lose another game, despite a stalwart fourth-quarter push to catch up with the Eagles. Very disappointing, since Coach Shanahan's decision NOT to play RGIII in the pre-season made all the difference in his performance tonight! The highly touted quarterback hadn't played before a massive crowd in over EIGHT freakin' ( Read more... )

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