Month: April 2014

Rutgers Professor David Greenberg has reviewed George Kennan’s diaries and discovered that Kennan had a lot of bigoted views, but that’s really not the most interesting aspect of the resulting article. What’s...

The Clinton administration figured out how the Mighty Right-Wing Wurlitzer worked at least eight years (pdf) before I did. They obviously had a greater need to know. I had no idea that bullshit that was unfit to print was first...

. New perception in the West: Turkey is distancing itself from European values (Hürriyet News) – The first statement is Stephan Füle’s, the European Commissioner for Enlargement, speech he delivered on...

Nice. Topekans commemorate the 60th Anniversary of Brown v. The Board of Education of Topeka by bitching about a black First Lady coming to visit their town. That’s classy.

Not to be selfish, but a Super El Niño sounds bad and I kind of want to know how it will impact me. I assume next summer (2015) will be as hot as this winter was cold, but I have no idea what else to expect. Drought? Floods?...