What You Do Not Know

These are images of Tehran, Iran you don’t see every­day (Right-click and hit “play” to start.) (from, via, via, via, via) Please copy the flash ani­ma­tion to your site if you’re embed­ding this (right-click, “Save Target As…” or “Save Link as…”).

Truer Words

It’s pretty depress­ing how true this is: The American pub­lic may have artic­u­lated frus­tra­tion with the course of events in Iraq, but this feel­ing is derived more from a frus­tra­tion at being defeated than from any moral out­rage over get­ting involved in a war that didn’t need to be fought in the first place. Scott Ritter, …

Germany Tries Rumsfeld

Glenn Greenwald had a post up a cou­ple weeks ago decry­ing Germany for bring­ing charges against Donald Rumsfeld for war crimes. I think some points are required: If the German gov­ern­ment wants to impli­cate itself in the pros­e­cu­tion of alleged war crim­i­nals, they are cer­tainly able to do so. The fact that the crime did …

Sanity Has Left The Building

It’s actu­ally pretty amaz­ing how crazy TV has got­ten since I stopped watch­ing it. Obviously, I can’t know for cer­tain how crazy it is, since I don’t own one, but I read blog­gers talk about ABC putting on shows about “how soon is the apoc­a­lypse,” and sup­pos­edly some CNN anchor was recy­cling bull­shit from WorldNetDaily …