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Years ago, the Tango Security Force was one of my main sources of business as a JAG prosecutor. Today, Condi Rice visited the place and spoke some words that the New York Times apparently construed as harsh. I’ve never seen a paper make so many characterizations of a statement without quoting the allegedly significant statements. I’ll try to dig them up as soon as State actually publishes them. I liked this part: “Even China must eventually embrace some form of...

Not that anyone’s listening to me, but I second the nomination of Claudia Rosett for a Pulizter for her oil-for-food reporting.

Cold War Nostalgia. A link to the funniest TV commercial of all time–Wendy’s “Soviet Fashion Show.” It still works, in a way that Yakov Smirnov doesn’t.

Mourning liberalism. I have too much nostalgia for the contribution that liberalism once made to our society not to wince when I hear Sean Hannity speak of it as if it were a skin infection or an unnatural sex act. There was a time, after all, when liberalism stood for freedom and tolerance instead of hostility to everything America supports, simply because America supports it. The torch once held by Ken Kesey and Alan Ginsburg has been passed to Ward...

Condi to the North Koreans: Our offer is on the table, and you’d better give it serious thought now. FWIW, it’s a terrible offer from our perspective. And naturally, it didn’t meet its actual objective of mollifying South Korea’s inexhaustable compulsion to appease. Thankfully, the North will never accept it, particularly if we insist on rigorous verification.

Demonstration Forecasts. For our soldiers in Korea, they’re as much a fact of life as weather forecasts and exchange rates. Don’t think they’d be announced this way if they were all necessarily peaceful.

Link here. The substance of the question and Rumsfeld’s answer are reproduced in full without edits, but the boldface portions are my own emphasis. Staff Sergeant Sharp, U.S. Army: In regards to United States Forces Korea, we already have a brigade in Iraq, and I recently read in the Army Times that General LaPorte was recommending relocating an additional 3,000 troops. How do you feel about the readiness of United States Forces Korea in regards to the North Korean regime?...

Cold War Nostalgia. A link to the funniest TV commercial of all time–Wendy’s “Soviet Fashion Show.” It still works, in a way that Yakov Smirnov doesn’t.

Mourning liberalism. I have too much nostalgia for the contribution that liberalism once made to our society not to wince when I hear Sean Hannity speak of it as if it were a skin infection or an unnatural sex act. There was a time, after all, when liberalism stood for freedom and tolerance instead of hostility to everything America supports, simply because America supports it. The torch once held by Ken Kesey and Alan Ginsburg has been passed to Ward...

Condi to the North Koreans: Our offer is on the table, and you’d better give it serious thought now. FWIW, it’s a terrible offer from our perspective. And naturally, it didn’t meet its actual objective of mollifying South Korea’s inexhaustable compulsion to appease. Thankfully, the North will never accept it, particularly if we insist on rigorous verification.

Demonstration Forecasts. For our soldiers in Korea, they’re as much a fact of life as weather forecasts and exchange rates. Don’t think they’d be announced this way if they were all necessarily peaceful.

Link here. The substance of the question and Rumsfeld’s answer are reproduced in full without edits, but the boldface portions are my own emphasis. Staff Sergeant Sharp, U.S. Army: In regards to United States Forces Korea, we already have a brigade in Iraq, and I recently read in the Army Times that General LaPorte was recommending relocating an additional 3,000 troops. How do you feel about the readiness of United States Forces Korea in regards to the North Korean regime?...

Link here. The substance of the question and Rumsfeld’s answer are reproduced in full without edits, but the boldface portions are my own emphasis. Staff Sergeant Sharp, U.S. Army: In regards to United States Forces Korea, we already have a brigade in Iraq, and I recently read in the Army Times that General LaPorte was recommending relocating an additional 3,000 troops. How do you feel about the readiness of United States Forces Korea in regards to the North Korean regime?...

We’ve recently seen the reports that North Korea’s first poultry export shipment to South Korea was halted by a suspected bird flu outbreak. No word on whether the strain is the same one responsible for several deaths in Viet Nam. But if the idea of North Korea exporting food isn’t already insane enough for you, here’s some dramatic irony to emphasize the point: Yonhap said North Korean authorities had buried the dead chickens but that some residents had dug up...

The Washington Times reports that North Korea has announced that it will expel U.N. aid workers, claiming that their help is no longer needed: The United Nations has triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity in Geneva, New York and Pyongyang to persuade the reportedly destitute Asian nation not to proceed with the move to close the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), U.N. and Western diplomatic sources said. “We have been informed by North Korean authorities that they do...

We’ve recently seen the reports that North Korea’s first poultry export shipment to South Korea was halted by a suspected bird flu outbreak. No word on whether the strain is the same one responsible for several deaths in Viet Nam. But if the idea of North Korea exporting food isn’t already insane enough for you, here’s some dramatic irony to emphasize the point: Yonhap said North Korean authorities had buried the dead chickens but that some residents had dug up...

The Washington Times reports that North Korea has announced that it will expel U.N. aid workers, claiming that their help is no longer needed: The United Nations has triggered a flurry of diplomatic activity in Geneva, New York and Pyongyang to persuade the reportedly destitute Asian nation not to proceed with the move to close the Office of Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), U.N. and Western diplomatic sources said. “We have been informed by North Korean authorities that they do...

Friends Don’t Let Friends Talk to the Chinese State Media. Check out how they garbled this Washington Post editor’s responses in an interview. Doesn’t look like an accident, either. Lying pieces of shit.