Karzai to world: don’t fret, I’ll make it all better!

That war in Afghanistan was looking pretty bad for a while there! What with Transparency International dubbing Kabul as the world’s second-most corrupt government, and the fact that Afghanistan has pretty much become a narco-state, one could get the impression that Afghanistan has become somewhat of a lost cause.

But wait! President Hamid Karzai is back to take one more kick at the can.
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Posted: November 19th, 2009 under commentary, foreign policy analysis - No Comments.

Back and a few GPM articles

Back from Florida, will have some nice new content in a few days after my mind recovers from being beaten down with alcohol for twelve nights running. Until then, here are some nice articles from the GPM:

India, China & the IPI Pipeline
Arctic ownership update
The India lobby in the United States

Posted: November 17th, 2009 under commentary, foreign policy analysis - No Comments.

Sunny Miami, etc

Gone for a week! If I had some kind of roaming plan, I could blog from the road. But I don’t, because I’m a miser like that. Be back next Monday – The GPM will still be updated with my articles this week.

Posted: November 7th, 2009 under internetery - No Comments.

Interesting tweets from Xinjiang riots

Here is a list of tweets from Urumqi that made it through the Great Firewall of China. They provide a glimpse of not only the stark ethnic divide that exists in Xinjiang, but also the fear and uncertainty of mass civil unrest.

Here are a few:
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Posted: November 3rd, 2009 under internetery - No Comments.

Top 10 reasons why North Americans suck

During my money-seeking travels I came across Constant Content, a site that allows writers to submit articles to be auctioned off to purchasers in need of content. I half-assedly clicked around and discovered that they have a humor section, of which the most recent submission is ‘top ten reasons you know you’re a dog lover.’ I was at once hit by two conflicting urges to scoff at yet another ‘top 10 list’ on the internet and click through to find out what could possibly be so funny about being a dog owner. Perhaps #1 is “I jerked off a Miniature Schnauzer”
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Posted: October 29th, 2009 under internetery, satire writing - humor - No Comments.

Book Review: Pillars of the Earth

The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett

My rating: 2 of 5 stars
This book gets two stars instead of zero because it looped around the fail bend with such velocity that it actually became laughably good.  The characters only exist to have things happen to them, and by things I mean rapes.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under book reviews, satire writing - humor - No Comments.

Zellers hates Canada

The Toronto Star ran a game-changing piece of journalism on the state of Canadian flag displays in Zellers yesterday.
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Posted: October 23rd, 2009 under satire writing - humor - No Comments.

Book Review – Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

My rating: 2 of 5 stars
What I learned from this book: Never trust Leo Tolstoy.

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Posted: October 22nd, 2009 under book reviews - No Comments.

Karzai’s decision

Afghanistan’s Electoral Complaints Commission has confirmed what we’ve all known for a long time now: Karzai didn’t get a clean 50%.

So, what now?

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Posted: October 19th, 2009 under commentary, foreign policy analysis - No Comments.

Charles Krauthammer on Obama’s foreign policy: Amateurish! Does that make Bush a Pro?

The Washington Post’s go-to naysayer Charles Krauthammer took a giant rhetorical dump on President Obama’s foreign policy thus far. Let’s see what he hates:

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Posted: October 16th, 2009 under commentary, foreign policy analysis - 4 Comments.