Tastes like terrorism!
“As another day passed with Mr. [Faisal] Shahzad talking to investigators about the car bomb he had admitted driving into Times Square on Saturday,…
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Things that are worth your time
Adam Hocschild’s article from Congo, about mining, which I blogged about earlier, is online. Read it. Amazing. “Africa to Appalachia,” Jayme Stone’s collaboration with…
Read MoreWhy a “girl” can’t “change her mind” about rape
“can a girl change her mind about rape”? Dear Internet surfer who put that into Google and ended up on my blog: No. Rape…
Read MoreOn telling the muse, “Go bother someone else today”
My sister sent me a link to this TED talk, from last year, by Elizabeth Gilbert. Eat Pray Love wasn’t really my kind of…
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Confronting Rape as a Weapon of War: A Comprehensive Report
The Internet just got (more) awesome
Thank you, Oxford University Press. The scholarly publisher has just launched what one magazine I’ve never heard of but is published by Conde Nast…
Read MorePregnant and embedded: Not your usual Afghanistan story
I just finished reading this remarkable piece by Elizabeth Rubin, a foreign correspondent who’s been coming and going from Afghanistan for quite awhile. Her…
Read MoreWill Steve Jobs’ #iPad kill free speech?
I would have seen that headline and rolled my eyes, except for this: The man who just won the Pulitzer Prize for cartoons can’t…
Read MoreObama names Director of War Atrocities, croons to advocates, “Baby, it’s not how it sounds, I swear!”
It’s a mini-round up of the two most recent things I’ve read: One, Obama now has a war atrocities czar — formally known as…
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This book, I mean. This discovery saved what would otherwise have been a wasted hour screwing around on the Internet, link to link to…
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