In journalism there is perhaps no end to shitty beats. But the anonymous drone for Associated Press who wrote this story must have really pissed someone off. Let the headline suffice to convey the self-loathing and dismay the assignment must have instilled. Obama dog Bo has own Christmas stocking The article notes that it took [...]

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Frank Rich gets to the heart of magical thinking that guides American foreign policy: Americans want our country to be secure. Most want Obama to succeed. And so we hope that we won’t get bogged down in Afghanistan while our adversaries regroup elsewhere, that the casualties and costs can be contained, that the small, primitive [...]

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This cartoon will change your mind. Whatever you think now, you will stop thinking after reading this cartoon. In fact, you will stop thinking, period. Your brain will shut down. Soon all other biological processes will cease to function and you will begin to decompose. Before reading this cartoon, call your attorney to update your [...]

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Uh, I done did it uh-gin. I tweeted and facebooked, but I forgot to blog the posting of yesterday’s In Contempt cartoon. I’m feeling a little over-extended these days – which is amazing, since I haven’t had a work shift in 3 weeks. Lots of child care, housekeeping, volunteering at school, and wotnot – trying [...]

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The U.S. foreign policy crowd, from Sandy Berger to John Bolton, worries that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will come unglued over Afghanistan, so reports David Paul Kuhn. The irony, says Kuhn, is that earlier in the decade Afghanistan was seen as a new frontier for NATO. The member states came to the defense [...]

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