If Andrew Breitbart injected a Chia Pet with ginger and turkey fat, then died before he could bring it in out of the sun, the resulting mass would grow up to become Chuck C. Johnson. The right-wing provocateur gave America a race-baiting level-up Thursday by releasing pics from Michael Brown's social media.
So a Cornell historian wrote a book about how slavery, rather than God, the Marlboro Man or Vince Lombardi, fueled America's capitalist development. But did you ever consider how nice some slaveowners were, Mr. Historian? Your Economist book reviewer did, and now he's getting torched on Twitter.
Was Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson beaten severely before shooting Michael Brown to death? We don't know for certain. But thanks to Hudson Hongo over at Antiviral, we definitely know this photo making the social media rounds isn't him.
Now that Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen are federal convicts, it's worth revisiting the atrocious defense strategy that didn't save them, a strategy that makes the Chewbacca Defense look like Inherit the Wind.
As media evolves, many journalists are looking for new ways to improve efficiency. For instance, Ken Dilanian—current AP reporter and former L.A. Times writer—often lets his sources at the Central Intelligence Agency exercise editorial control over stories about them.
Is the Islamic State evil, or really evil? We've heard from the Duck Dynasty patriarch. Now Slavoj Zizek, the Coldplay of critical Marxist psychoanalytical theory, has a New York Times post titled "ISIS Is a Disgrace to True Fundamentalism." It's... not bad, actually. And it raises a few good questions.
I'll admit I know next to nothing about cell-phone intercept technology, but this post by Matthew Phelan over on Black Bag is pretty creepy. Which, by the way, if you're not reading him on a regular basis, consider starting.
Perhaps out of legitimate fears over ISIS's increasing power among civilians in the Middle East and jihadists far beyond, or perhaps just because it's an election year, one Republican congressman has unveiled legislation to declare a ceaseless war against at least six terrorist groups in multiple countries.
Maybe if more professors could legally carry firearms at work, there'd be fewer school shootings. Or maybe they'd just unintentionally shoot themselves, like this Idaho State University chem professor.
I can only assume the U.S. intelligence community has assets monitoring Russian dashboard camera uploads. How else are defense planners supposed to know about the new Spongebob threat? And let's not think about what happens if Ivan manages to stick a caterpillar drive on that autobus.
If you're a Second Amendment group looking to defend some gun rights at the Supreme Court, what would your strategy be? If it's to team up with a convicted felon neo-Nazi accused of making "napalm, silencers, and other explosives" to attack a Mexican consulate in Minneapolis, you're ready for the big leagues.
U.S. forces are attacking ISIS fighters in Iraq and Al-Shabaab in Somalia. But today's surest sign that the Obama administration is widening the endless War On Terror™ may be an Air Force bid for 18 tan canvas tents, to be shipped to an airbase in Niamey, Niger.
Barack Obama talked to the media last week about U.S. action against the Islamic State and went off-script, saying offhand that the U.S. didn't have a strategy yet for defeating the fundamentalist dirtbags muscling in on Iraq. But what would a good strategy look like? How do you solve a problem like Sharia?
Pentagon officials announced over the weekend that they'd executed some kind of an air-strike operation against members of Al-Shabaab, an Islamist militant group in Somalia, because apparently defense planners are really used to multitasking at this point, and it feels weird now to just bomb one thing, you know?
