U.S.

Swampland

Strategy v. Tactics

Fred Kaplan does his usual good job parsing the Iraq and Afghanistan sections of the McCain and Obama foreign policy speeches yesterday. But there was more to Obama's speech than just Iraq and Afghanistan. Read more

Real Clear Politics

Time For Some Campaignin'

JibJab has entered the race. Read more

World

The Middle East Blog

Security Threat Turns Blair Back from Gaza

Ex-British PM Tony Blair was stopped from going to Gaza. Was the threat against him real or ficticious? Read more

The China Blog

Pandering to Hollywood

I finally saw Kung Fu Panda last night. Pretty good and quite funny, it also left me a little puzzled about some of the agonizing that has been going on in China. Read more

Business & Technology

The Curious Capitalist

Howell Raines, Energy Expert?

As media critic for Conde Nast Portfolio, Howell has written a column arguing that the "children of Reaganomics" now populating newsrooms are too willing to swallow the oil company line that high gas prices are merely the result of supply and demand. Read more

Work in Progress

Baby Cullen's C.V.

Goal: Week-old baby seeks position requiring no particular skills. Read more

Nerd World

Defending ChunkyLover53

A Simpsons episode I wrote had a joke in it where Homer gave his email address as: ChunkyLover53@aol.com. Cut to now, when some clever internet hacker has snagged the ChunkyLover53 AOL Instant Messager address. Read more

Entertainment

Tuned In

TV Tonight: Project Runway Retur — Hey, Look at This Shiny Object!

Tonight, Project Runway fans welcome back the fashion reality show despite the underwhelming publicity efforts of Bravo, which no one can prove had anything to do with the fact that next season, the series will belong to Lifetime. Read more

Looking Around

Absolutely Prefabulous

I was at MOMA last night for an early look at their new show about prefabricated housing. It's not just for army bases anymore. Read more

Photos

White House Photo Blog

Barack Obama greets the crowd after giving a foreign policy speech on Iraq and American National Security in Washington, DC. View more

Being born in the so-called third world (as if these people are from space) does not make one inferior or primitive.

• - Posted by Concerned on The Middle East in response to TIm McGirk's "Security Threat..."