Author: LithiumCola

BooMan links to a lengthy essay by George Packer at the New Yorker titled “Planning for Defeat”: a look at the possible consequences of various American exit plans and semi-exit plans for Iraq.  Packer is a...

Promoted by Steven D Guardian has a new video linked on their front page, that covers events on and after May 19, 2007.  It’s a Flash 8 and takes a minute or two to load. The Guardian’s award-winning...

I don’t expect a lot in the way of intelligent analysis from the mainstream media.  But the response to the leaked Hadley memo has so far missed the memo’s significance to an extent I thought possible only for...

Maureen Dowd writes an op-ed piece in today’s New York Times .  My favorite sentence is the last one. Thomas L. Friedman is on vacation. Thank God. Katha Politt writes a very funny op-ed: link : Thank You for Hating...

If the world were merely the predictable pain of war.  If the world were merely the woman in the supermarket who unexpectedly weeps as she cleans the slop in aisle 5 for six-dollars an hour.  If the world were only...