Of Note on the Internets

I'm sorry to say it, but keeping up with this blog has become a bit too taxing on my patience of late and I think I'm going to give ...

Seriously, this is hilarious: "Not your father's Taliban." "Another thing you said you didn’t like: how we blow shit up ...

Check out this episode of Frontline, which documents an Afghan journalist's time embedded with an insurgent group in the north of Afghan...

Check out this entertaining story about Matt Taibbi and Mark Ames' old paper in Russia, The eXile, which is legendary for its debauchery...

Election season is nigh in the UK, and to brush up on some of the more interesting figures in the conservative Tory's lineup, check out ...

Take a look at this must read article from The Atlantic about how an era of prolonged high joblessness (which we are most certainly enterin...

I am very glad that Gideon Rachman wrote this comment piece: "Why Mexico is the missing Bric." The title speaks for itself. Mex...

Finally some good news in our Afghan war! Perhaps the most senior Taliban commander has been captured. I do not have anything to offer on ...

Another good chart from The Economist , this time outlining the largets recipients of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI, which is a measure of ...

I usually try to eschew posting political articles here, first of all because they're usually inane. However, I think this article has ...

Check out this great set of graphics from FT.com outlining basically all you need to know about US defense spending for FY 2011: "US mi...

Jane Mayer, a pretty remarkable reporter who has been been doggedly investigating detainee issues for years, has a new profile on Eric Hold...

Check out this letter from AG Eric Holder to Sen. Mitch McConnell explaining the Dept. of Justice's arrest and handling of the "und...

That's the basic question asked by Noah Shachtman in this post: "3 G.I.s Killed in Pakistan. Now Can We Start Treating This Like ...

Check out this nice short blog post by The Economist on the unchecked growth of the US defense budget: "Time to attack defense spendi...

Check out this very interesting pair of articles, which might signal a shift in the way the US is prosecuting its war in Afghanistan. First...

After reading this mortifying piece by Glenn Greenwald, I can't help but think (assuming it's true) that we're really going off ...

Thanks to Charlie, who brought this article to my attention: "Beijing Journal: Stiching the Narrative of a Revolution." Having b...

Surprisingly informative and hilarious for its existence, check out this rap battle between Hayek and Keynes:

Check out this clever article about the possible effects of texting on spelling reform in the English language: "The Keypad Solution....