Archive for August, 2008
Geez, I’m embarased that this has been the first blog post in about a week. Admittedly, Minneapolis’ school board primary elections are coming up, and profiling six of NINE candidates has kinda eaten up my week, but still. So many interesting things to flap my digital jaw about.
This week saw the third major suicide bomning [...]
Courtesy of Waleed Ibrahim of Reuters, via The Stupidest Man on Earth, comes a behind-the-scenes look at the Iraqi parliament as it tried to get a quorum of lawmakers to vote on the provincial elections law last week.
A Shi’ite lawmaker accused Sunnis of following a ‘foreign Arab agenda’. A Sunni accused the Shi’ites of pursuing [...]
It’s kind of old news, but this is the first concrete evidence I’ve seen in the Western media, and it deserves to be highlighted. From the AP via YahooNews
So, we’re at it again. Gotta love those “dirty wars”. According to the AP article, the Badr organization and Iraqi Security Forces, with the complicity of the [...]
