Agora 15 Aug 2007 10:55 pm
Joe Conason is not only a well-informed and savvy guy, he’s also a stylish writer who can be wickedly funny at times. Along with the rest of the world, he wrote about Karl Rove’s “retirement.” (If you think that conniving SOB is leaving politics for good, I’ve got a surge I’d like to sell you.) [...]
Random 15 Aug 2007 1:06 pm
Happy Feast of the Assumption! We all make ’em, so let’s celebrate ’em (even if they sometimes make an ass of you and me).
Random 10 Jan 2007 12:23 pm
On December 31, I thought about resolving to be even lazier in 2007 than I was in 2006, but I never got around to it.
Agora 10 Mar 2006 12:59 pm
Noting the rise in anti-Arab racism and bigotry against Muslims in the US, Juan Cole dug deep in the Quran on Thursday to bust up the “clash of civilizations” meme. The Muslims are pretty much like us Christians and Jews, don’t you see?
One commenter does see, and doesn’t like what he sees:
Give me a break.
The reason [...]
Agora 7 Feb 2006 1:49 pm
Muslims in many locales are protesting and burning things because of some cartoons printed in a Danish newspaper. Wikipedia describes the origin of the controversy:
The drawings, including a depiction of Muhammad with a bomb inside or under his turban, accompanied an article on self-censorship and freedom of speech. Flemming Rose, the cultural editor of Jyllands-Posten, [...]
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