This is the best fodder for late-night comedy I’ve seen since the last time Michael Steele spoke. It is encouraging that most people seem appalled, but some conservatives appear to have a limitless appetite for self-destruction. The next time Republicans accuse liberals of disrespecting the commander-in-chief, expect eyes to roll. And as for Mr. Spontaneous … Read more
So unsurprisingly, the Iranians now have enough uranium to make a nuclear bomb. I say unsurprising because, well, the U.S. has been wringing its hands over it for years now. While apparently the 2007 intelligence assessment that they aren’t actively designing a bomb was accurate, it’s now within their physical capacity to build one if they … Read more
In a plot twist which should surprise approximately no one, it seems that the August presidential election in Afghanistan was not entirely on the up-and-up. It’s not that the United States is particularly keen to create a warlord-ruled narco-“state” in perpetual war and essentially ungovernable…it’s more just that nations with no literacy, centralized power, or … Read more
So I actually just returned to school from a summer spent working in Tokyo, and so I have been following with great interest the returns from the recent Japanese election. As you may have heard if you’ve heard anything, the bare-bones outline is this: the Liberal Democratic Party (neither liberal or democratic, truth be told), … Read more