Being There

Nir Rosen, who is slowly becoming the Baghdad correspondent, offers a raw glimpse into the New Iraq:Hundreds of Iraqis were emerging from the smoke, running away in every direction from the smoking ruin. Hundreds more were just standing in shock, crying, screaming. A...

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Metablogging

OK, everyone should be able to squeeze at least one blog entry out of their bookmarks, so here are mine. Actually, these aren't my bookmarks (I'll spare you the boredom of that overgrown list), but my "Daily Routine" at Backflip, the first sites I click through each...

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LCpl. Boudreaux, Again

I promised to keep you posted, no matter how tedious this becomes. Salon weighs in with a review of the controversy (you'll have to watch an ad to get access), as well as some useful ruminations on visual propaganda and the believe-what-you-want culture of the...

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UN Corrupt? Saddam a Jerk? No Way!

Why, I'm shocked, just shocked! The warbots are making a lot of hay over the oil-for-food scam in which UN officials and Saddam Hussein skimmed billions from the program, but I still have to ask: Why did the humanitarian disaster happen? As I pointed out in an article...

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tasty manatees

Ryan, So you're not going to distort and fabricate anymore? Sounds credible to me. But why do so many of the comments above sound and look exactly the same, with no return addresses? Oh, and you've still yet to answer my initial post. Lie, distort, evade: you've...

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Laugh of the Day Update

You'll notice that Mr. Tasty Manatees has altered, fabricated, and deleted at will on the comments board I talked about here. He also removed his warning about this Orwellian practice. Several readers have written to inform me of his alterations and deletions, but the...

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Laugh of the Day

Just because I'm a nice guy, I'll give this kid a link. Here's a snippet regarding my column on Monday:Normally, I ignore the disgusting rants of fools like Bargainer, given the extremist nature of his website and his fellow authors. However, since he's singled this...

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Rats to Ship, Pt. II

Marcus Epstein spares us the drudgery of re-reading what the kids at National Review were saying about war and Wilsonianism last year. Arthur Silber re-reads Jonah Goldberg and gets the willies. UPDATE: I fixed the second link. Sorry.

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LCpl. Boudreaux Update

The saga continues. Boudreaux says the image is doctored; the Marine Corps has "reopened" the case. If the Corps reopened the case after Boudreaux screamed foul play, that indicates to me that the initial investigation (the results of which have not been released)...

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