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No declaration of war yet. I don't think President Obama is going to declare war on Pakistan.  What is the president going to do?  I d...

The headline to the lead story in  The New York Times today is: "Pakistanis Tied to 2007 Border Ambush on Americans." After ho...

The title to this and the preceding post is borrowed from the American Civil War.  "South Carolina must be destroyed" represented ...

“With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack, as well as the assault on our embassy.”                ...

The 81 st pageviewer today became the 37,000 since Google began providing stats on such things. Earlier this week China became the fourth...

It’s a little slow, isn’t it? When a Canadian corporation is big news, there’s not much interesting news. Several years ago, some magazin...

                                                                Canada ’s finest, Research in Motion, maker of the BlackBerry (“Crackberry”...

Our BFF's at Weibo microblog, who gave us China Week, had a little upset with the gendarme a couple of weeks ago. In a report in The Ne...

                                                                      This painting appears in the photos section of a new biography of Bis...

                                                            Continuing our popular series on paintings of deceased women.

TO: B.H. FROM: B.H. SUBJECT: POSTING Posting an image without first writing the text assumes you are going to be able to write somethi...

Moving painting.  Drowning victim.

To use the language of The   New York Times in describing Norwegian terrorist Anders Behring Breivik there's not a "blonde, blue-e...

There is a sense of centrifugal force at work; there is a sense of rent seams; there is an image of a bird hitting an air pump. The editor...

I a-am gov-er-nable, you're a Southeast Asian Up-lan-der.

No i-it doesn't. 

They're on the se-cond page;  that doesn't co-ount.

No mo-ore asterisks on the front pa-age.  Nah-nah na boo-boo, stick your head in doo-doo.

                                                                    This book… Huh?   Oh hardy har-har; no, it is not a book about me.  I’m...

A couple of months ago Google provided a "widget" that enabled an up-to-date list of the T.T. posts to appear in the sidebar.  ...

The above image, a rose-colored rocky outcrop tipped with ice-blue looks in some ways like a portion of a classical Chinese landscape paint...

Received the email below yesterday: Revolution Books Hurricane Schedule Dear Friends, While it may appear that a non-existent veng...

This is the first paragraph in full of Professor Mendelson's article in the New York Review of Books: "I was always interested ...

Edward Mendelson is a PROFESSOR.   He’s a professor of   English and Comparative Literature at Columbia , which is like a legitimate school...

Who the hell is Edward Mendelson.

And it's not a review of Simon Garfunkel's book, it's just some other guy on fonts.

                                                                          From the New York Review of Books , a fetching previewed article:...

There's a whole book out on fonts. I don't know why.  The individual below ...now above, who looks like he's been looking at fo...

The rebels have entered Colonel Gaddafi's personal, fortified compound at Bab al-Aziziya. "Entered,"...well they were not invi...