Archive for July 17th, 2008
This is rather surprising: The Guardian, citing no-one, says the US will establish an interests section – a kind of mini-embasy – in Tehran, and is planning the announcement for next month. Their reporter smells election-year politics, and I concur. It might go some way to undercuting Obama’s main point that Bush (and by extension, [...]
It was peculiar listening to journalists call the exchange of remains today a “prisoner swap” — 200 dead bodies and 5 lives ones, in exchange for the “remains” of Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. Not even their bodies, just bits and pieces.
Undoubtedly a sad day in Israel, and a joyous one in Lebanon. But what [...]
Apparently so, say the Minneapolis police.
Who knew that a car can’t squish me into the curb?
That’s a comforting thought…if only I could trust the passive-aggressive, four-wheeled cows in this cit
