Month: November 2006

Well for starters we’ve now been in Iraq longer than we fought in WW2. From Yahoo: As of Sunday, the conflict in Iraq has raged for three years and just over eight months. Only the Vietnam War (eight years, five months),...

Group Capt. Lionel Mandrake: Well, I’m afraid I’m still not with you, sir, because, I mean, if a Russian attack was not in progress, then your use of Plan R – in fact, your order to the entire Wing… Oh. I...

And now for some good news for a change: The Grand Sheikh of Al Azhar, the oldest and most highly respected institution in Sunni Islam; and the Grand Mufti of Egypt have released an official fatwa declaring the practice of...

Earlier this year I started writing a series I called “Danse Macabre” — literally, the “Dance of Death” — which was conceived to show the dangerous course that the Bush Administration was...

    Last night, well, early this morning really, a strange idea came to me. We were talking in the 3rd cafe of the night about BTers we’d met and not met. About meetups that we’d been to and had to miss....