Don’t Mention the War: People Power Tramples a Final Frontier
“This is a country area, so after a hard day it’s nice to drive in to Stettin and go to a café,” said Detlef Horn, reflecting on how some rural Germans now choose to spend their evenings by going to...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Bridgegate
Political revenge by traffic jam is a great subject for late-night stand ups, but something about Bridgegate doesn’t add up.For months, the narrative of the scandal has been that Christie's aides and...
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Today in Tabs: Failing Up
Today in Opinions: Bill Keller, in the NYT and Emma Keller in the Grauniad wrote dumb editorials about Lisa Bonchek Adams's public experience with cancer. Emma Keller's has since been pulled by the...
View ArticleMagritte Put To Music
“Ceci N’est Pas Une Pipe,” This is Not a Pipe, Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte famously painted in script under an image of a pipe in the 1928 oil “The Treachery of Images.” According to the Museum of...
View ArticleThe Day They Stopped and Frisked Jimi Hendrix
The life of Jimi Hendrix, the American guitar hero who lived in London during the Swinging Sixties, was brief. After failing to leave much of a mark in America, playing in sessions with Little Richard...
View ArticlePublic Relations, Narco Style
“Who giveth food to all flesh, for his mercy endureth forever.”– Psalm 136:25And so it comes to pass that the drug cartels give and endure, with little mercy and a lot of help from YouTube.In a video...
View ArticleSouth Sudan: Waiting for Death to Arrive
Marial Simon, one of 17,000 desperate souls crowding into the dusty United Nations Tomping compound in Juba, was still in shock from what he had seen on December 15.“That was the night of the killing,”...
View ArticlePenis Pumps Cost U.S. Government Millions, Watchdog Cries Waste
(Reuters) - Penis pumps cost the U.S. government's Medicare program $172 million between 2006 and 2011, about twice as much as the consumer would have paid at the retail level, according to a...
View ArticleFCC Says May Appeal Court Ruling Against Its Net Neutrality Rule
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday rejected federal rules that required Internet providers to treat all web traffic equally, a decision that could allow mobile carriers and...
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Today in Tabs: Tabs Rule Everything Around Me
Today in WTF: Secretary of Goof John Kerry shows off a pair of big spuds. Polar bear strips, dies in climate-change burlesque show. Vladimir Zhirinovsky recommends quarterly sex, no meat, no alcohol,...
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After Surviving Libya, Adrift in Europe
A three-month visa and a few hundred euros: That is what 300 men from Africa had in their luggage when they went from Italy to Hamburg, Germany at the beginning of last year. They had lived in the...
View ArticleChristie Tries to Move Past Traffic Scandal, but Will Anyone Else?
State of the State messages are so dull that they usually make State of the Union messages look like a Jerry Bruckheimer movie. They don’t command a primetime audience like the President’s, so they...
View ArticleInside Pol Pot’s School for Torture
A reminiscence by hippie/surfer drug dealers about getting alternately high then busted in the Seventies unearths the plight of a pair of American drug runners, captured by Khmer Rouge troops and...
View ArticleObama: Won't Wait for Legislation to Advance 2014 Priorities
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would not wait for Congress to pass legislation to advance his policy priorities this year and said he was "getting close" to finishing...
View ArticleWith Muslim Brotherhood Crushed, Egypt Sets Sights on Hamas
CAIRO (Reuters) - After crushing the Muslim Brotherhood at home, Egypt's military rulers plan to undermine the Palestinian militant group Hamas, which runs the neighboring Gaza Strip, senior Egyptian...
View ArticleThe Beijing Bubble
The country, whose economy is critical to the health of the global economy, has been living beyond its means for years. Its central bank has been flooding its financial system with easy money at the...
View ArticleThe New New Newsweek.com
Dear loyal readers,I know the past couple years have been confusing—it seems like every time you turn around there’s a new Newsweek.com. When IBT Media purchased Newsweek last year, it inherited a...
View ArticleKalashnikov Rifle Designer Felt 'Spiritual Pain' From Mass Deaths
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Mikhail Kalashnikov, the designer of the AK-47 rifle, wrote a letter to the Russian Orthodox Church before his death expressing concern that the weapon had killed so many people,...
View ArticleSenate Panel Says Benghazi Attack Was Preventable
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Senate Intelligence Committee said on Wednesday that the deadly September 11, 2012, attack by militants on U.S. government posts in Benghazi, Libya, was preventable and...
View ArticleThe End of Dumb Money
Until a few months ago, pretty much the only people who cared about Bitcoin were drug dealers and socially-anemic guys who grew up playing Dungeons & Dragons… and still do. Now it’s all over the...
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