Hope you all had a great Christmas and are recovering nicely from eating bountifully! News A bomb targeting Shia Muslims goes off in a Pakistani market. Ten civilians, including eight children, are killed in fighting in Afghanistan. More protests and more arrests in Iran. "Avatar," "Sherlock Holmes," and "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel" lead …
Okay, the basics first: Here’s the video, and the full transcript. Here are various responses: McChrystal, McCain and various other responses. The BBC has some reactions from people in Afghanistan as well as from the NATO Secretary General and Nicolas Sarkozy. And here’s a good summary of the latest: Ban Ki-moon, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Britain, India. …
For those who love This is Spinal Tap: News The President orders 30,000 new troops to Afghanistan. More thoughts to come. Porfirio "Pepe" Lobo is the new President of Honduras. Green Boing Boing helps with energy literacy: climate change.
It’s World AIDS Day. Watch this vid: Iron Man 2: News Barack will make an address tonight on Afghanistan, with preliminary reports suggesting a rapid deployment of an additional 30-35,000 troops. The proposed Comcast-NBC merger would be the largest media merger in recent history. South Africa vows to treat all HIV-positive babies (which is a …
News Greater access to anti-retroviral drugs (ARVs) has helped to cut the death toll from HIV by more than 10% over the last five years. Research shows that climate is a major cause of conflict in Africa. The death toll in election-related violence in the Philippines rises to 46. Americans are split over Afghanistan. Politics …