Posts from ‘August, 2007’

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New York Times has an article detailing the record levels of opium being produced in Afghanistan this year. We are spending $600 million on counternarcotics efforts, divided between eradication, interdiction, and “alternative livelihoods.” Government officials admit, however, that eradication “drives farmers into the hands of the Taliban.” Why not pay the farmers for the opium [...]

Marques Slocum, Michigan defensive tackle, fills out a Facebook online quiz, hilarity ensues.

Seven US Army foot soldiers write a piece about the war as they see it, published by the New York Times. This is good, because almost all of the front page war news quotes come from army administration officials, several levels off the street. Really worth reading.

Jack Shafer, assessing the value of print news: “As good as the Web is at keeping apace with the current, it isn’t very good at telling me when my news tank is full. The final editions of well-edited newspapers still do a better job of conveying the most vital news than does a browsing of [...]

Funniest two minutes of TV I’ve seen all summer. [youtube=watch?v=oTrssyssSVE]

Found in the New York Times. Pretty funny.

The comics on the new season of Last Comic Standing are not funny. They are way out of their element on every challenge that requires creative thinking. There are three or four comics that haven’t made me laugh once, and that I feel the producers picked the final comics to make an intriguing ten, not [...]

Ted Stevens, the senator from Alaska, is under investigation for bribery. Bribery is illegal. All of this, however, isn’t.