I was always a fan of rebuilding the world trade center exactly as it was, but 10 stories taller. This is really the only idea I've liked more.

Ok, so we all chuckled at the naked peope protesting bush in New York, but we were laughing for the wrong reason. Apparently, these people were wandering around chanting "George Bush, drop the debt and stop AIDS now ( Read more... )

I've been thinking a lot about turkey these days, becuase turkey is wierd. For more than a decade, the turks have been begging to get into the EU, and the EU has mostly been stalling. The turks are teh most dynamic, democratic, and stable of the islamic countries, but are not Arabic. They actualyl come from central asia, but thats not really the ( Read more... )

So it turns out I misquoted, chavez is claming he won the election, despite exit polling showing he lost by nearly 20 points. Ironically, it appears their touch screen balloting machines were tampered with, but they have paper backups to count. I wish we had those. Anyhow, its very likely they'll find fraud, exit polling is highly accurate, ( Read more... )

The biggest crisis in the wester hemisphere is getting even less coverage than Darfur, and perhaps rightly so. After all, people in venezuela aren't being systematically murdered by Hugo Chavez, though his national socialism* is driving millions into abject poverty. Also, Venezuela has a lot farther to fall than sub-Sarahan africa. Thousands ( Read more... )

Fareed Zakaria is just as concerned about Iran as I am. The reason I mention this is because the guy is brilliant, and anyone who wants to discuss modern politics really should read his book ( Read more... )

You gotta love this Sadr guy. He raises a militia 6ish months ago, then launches a rebellion, which gets utterly crushed by the marines. People suspect he funded it with Iranian money and weapons, but despite that, the ProGov decides the best way to stop this sort of thing is to bring guys like this into the fold and give them a say in the ( Read more... )

"President Bush is better on terrorism, national defense and homeland security. Even on Iraq, even on the worst days, they give Bush a 10- point margin over Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass. On the other hand, they give Kerry a lead of double digits on job creation, education, health care, Social Security, prescription-drug prices and the environment." ( Read more... )

So the NYT has apparently admitted that Iran and North Korea are deadset of obtaining nuclear weapons. and thea diplomacy isnt working THis is old news, at least for korea, but it exposed Iran as the most dnagerous country in the world. Kim Jong might be an absolute nut, but he's surrounded by threeeof the most powerful militaries in the world ( Read more... )

SO bush and Kerry were in the same crap town the other day. I don't kow about the rest of you, but I wuld have been greatly relieved if they'd just settled it with pistols at dawn and saved us from 3 more months of mindless election year drivel. Alas, I yearn for simpler times...