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  • Read/React: Flying While Fat

    Kate Harding of Salon has a take on “flying while fat” that goes beyond the discomforter of other passengers and considers the parties under the microscope Whenever the issue of whether larger people should be forced to buy two airline seats comes up — as it did this weekend, when director Kevin Smith was booted…

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  • Family Affair: "KSM Doesn't Deserve to Be Treated Like a War Criminal"

    Tom Malinowski thinks trying Khalid Sheikh Mohammed as a war criminal is a mistake It’s no surprise that al Qaeda members would want to be seen as soldiers at war with the United States. Terrorist groups always want to be seen as warriors. Just think of the names they give themselves: the Lord’s Resistance Army,…

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  • Check It Out: Is Cheney Dry Snitchin'?

    Found this clip over on Crooks and Liars. Susie Madrak is convinced Dick Cheney is implicating himself in waterboarding authorization. Is he?

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  • Your Baby Has a Big Brother

    The government has the genetic information of newborns on file. Some parents aren’t too pleased about that fact When Annie Brown’s daughter, Isabel, was a month old, her pediatrician asked Brown and her husband to sit down because he had some bad news to tell them: Isabel carried a gene that put her at risk…

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  • King Tut Died from Malaria, Broken Leg

    New research has discovered that King Tut suffered from a host of medical setbacks. From The Washington Post Egypt’s famed King Tutankhamun suffered from a cleft palate and club foot, likely forcing him to walk with a cane, and died from complications from a broken leg exacerbated by malaria, according to the most extensive study…

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  • Top Taliban Commander Captured

    Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, second in command to the Taliban’s founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden has been captured in the Karachi, Pakistan. One Pakistani officer said Baradar was arrested 10 days ago with the assistance of the United States and “was talking” to his interrogators. Baradar is the…

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  • Haitian Prez: It Will Take Three Years to Clear Rubble

    Haitian President Rene Preval says it will take at least three years to clear the rubble following January 12th’s earthquake “It will take 1,000 trucks moving rubble for 1,000 days, so that’s three years. And until we move out rubble, we cannot really build,” Preval said. Sitting in the airport police station that serves as…

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  • Read/React: "Lynch Coates"

    Below is a comment Ta-Nehisi Coates of The Atlantic received the other day from Tim Sumner, who runs 9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America. Sumner did not care for one of TNC’s most recent blog posts. The race card. Who’d of thunk this leftist author would ever play one? Did the thousand-plus 12/5 crowd chant…

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  • Marja Offensive Crucial to War Strategy

    The largest military offensive since the Afghan War began took place this weekend. Will it work? That’s anyone’s guess. From The Washington Post In an acknowledgment of past mistakes, administration officials have emphasized that for the first time, U.S. and NATO forces are outnumbered by thousands of Afghan soldiers fighting alongside them. Unlike previous offensives,…

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  • Olympics: Georgian Luger Dies on Track

    Sad news out of the Olympics. Georgian luger  Nodar Kumaritashvili  has died following an accident on the track Friday. CBC is reporting that Georgian luge competitor Nodar Kumaritashvili has died after launching from the track and hitting his head on a metal pole during a training run Friday at Whistler Olympic Park. The track is…

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