Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The first recorded world-historical pandemic took place in the Roman Empire and Sasanian Iran, as well as neighboring areas such […]
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Omar Khayyam (307) “clerics drink the people’s blood”
I am busier than you are, cleric of the faith! And, despite my drunkenness, I’m soberer than you. I drink the blood of the vine, […]
Dear Mitt: *You* Don’t Get to Say That
Dear Mitt Romney: Your so-called Medicare reform is just a way of shifting health expenses from millionaires (whose taxes you want to lower) to middle […]
Omar Khayyam (233) “The sun has lassoed rooftops with its rays”
The sun has lassoed rooftops with its rays, and the king has splashed the light of day into my glass. Have some wine, for passionate love […]
NASA Explains how We Caused the Hottest Decade and are generally screwing ourselves over (Video)
NASA’s 5-minute video explains why the last decade has been the hottest ever (we did it) and what climate change means for our hot, thirsty […]
Libyans say CIA Tortured Them (Ross)
Alice Ross writes at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism President Bush and his CIA director Michael Hayden have each claimed that the US has in […]
Omar Khayyam (172) “A passion for heavenly goddesses”
I hope my mind will always be consumed by a passion for heavenly goddesses, and that my hand will always cradle the juice of the grape. They […]
Dear Democrats: If you do That you have to do This
Dear Democratic Party: If you bring Gabby Giffords to say the Pledge of Allegiance, you have to bring up the issue of gun control somewhere […]
Top Ten Ways we are Better off than in January 2009
It is breathtaking impudence that Republicans should try to campaign on whether we are better off than were were in the last six months of […]
US covert actions in Pakistan, Yemen and Somalia (Woods & Serle)
Chris Woods and Jack Serle write at the Bureau of Investigative Journalism: Pakistan: August sees the highest number of CIA strikes in Pakistan since October […]
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