I agree with Michael Goldfarb: “J Street should stop whining,” he told The Cable, “They got their ‘pro-peace’ buddies in the White House to help them stop the bleeding — but it won’t work.” I tend not to allow players on the field to pose as refs, but leave that aside. Goldfarb is right about [...]

In a terrible mood. Nothing baseball-related. Good game last night; spectacularly gritty Phillies play; respect due to Chan Ho Park. Game two. Woo. I thought about making the soundtrack X’s “Los Angeles” — because the serieeeeeeees has to leeeeeeave (choke-choke-choke-choke-choke-choke-choke-choke) Los Angeles, get it? — but that’s stupid and the Phillies are full of Ink [...]

What we have a hard time acknowledging for ourselves, we urge our Pakistani friends to concede. From Jane Perlez’s piece about how the Punjabi anti-Indian terrorist groups nurtured by the Pakistani military have deepened operational ties to the Taliban and al-Qaeda: The senior personnel in the security forces seem to understand the gravity of the [...]

Have something I need to take care of today all morning. Don’t know if this blog will have much of anything today before the ALCS. Carry on.

If we point our webbrowserdevices to the J-Post, we find a story headlined “‘Israel may attack Iran after December’.” Y-y-y-yikes! How do they know? Israel is making preparations to carry out military attacks in Iran after December, a French magazine reported overnight Wednesday. According to the report in Le Canard Enchainé quoted by Israel Radio, [...]

It’s the National League Championship Series! And so here’s Nicholas Beaudrot of Donkeylicious for your analytical guest-hostery. Thread: it’s open! Pennant fever: catch it! What’s a Braves fan to do? The Dodgers are a hated rival from the past; the Phillies, from the present. I hear the Falcons and Hawks are good; maybe I should [...]

If you tell me that you have a shellfish allergy while I’m cooking a paella, well, that sucks and you should have told me sooner, but I would be supremely unjustified in force-feeding you something that could send you to the hospital

How humiliating for J Street to only have 160 members of the House and Senate on the host committee for its end of the month conference. (Explanation.)

No idea if this awful fucking story is true. Italy is denying it strenuously. This post explains my take. Maybe this required more reporting than could be obtained, but the big unknown in the piece is a rather central question: whether the Italian intelligence service stopped paying off the Taliban fighters when the French landowning [...]

Remember all the stuff I was writing about al-Qaeda dispersal from Waziristan? All that and more is in this new Washington Independent piece. “If the Pakistani military pushes hard into Waziristan, and we’re talking about some very, very rugged terrain here, they might force individual al-Qaeda figures to move,” said the U.S. counterterrorism official. “That, [...]