I woke up this morning to the long-awaited news that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is going to be brought to New York and prosecuted in federal court for the crime of being the mastermind of a massive and deadly conspiracy known as September 11, 2001. Eight years, two months, and two days. That’s how long it [...]

TPM LiveWire highlights this puzzling tweet from Colorado State Senator David Schultheis: Don’t for a second, think Obama wants what is best for U.S. He is flying the U.S. Plane right into the ground at full speed. Let’s Roll. Now most left-wing commentary has devoted ample (and amply deserved) digital ink to how shocking, repugnant, [...]

Lessons learned: when you get a ticket for vehicular… misdeeds (nothing serious) out of state, you should just pay it and save yourself a whole lot of trouble down the road. Because I am learning this lesson far too late in life, I’m going to be spending my morning, and possibly my day, at the [...]

It’s funny: for a school that’s ostensibly a pit of sin, NYU–where I’m currently working on getting my BA–is home to an awful lot of ultra-conservative craziness. Most famously, you’ve got Keith Olbermann handing the “Worst Person in the World” prize over to the head of the NYU Republicans a couple years back for organizing [...]

Well, I was never part of the Exploited Barmy Army. (And I loved that Business dis of them, “A barmy army/ of trendy wankers.”) But, you know, if you can find a 1996 issue of Spin with a feature about Punk Planet, you may learn some things about my misspent youth.

IMMEDIATE RELEASE No. 887-09 November 12, 2009 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty The Department of Defense announced today the death of a Marine who was supporting Operation Enduring Freedom. Lance Cpl. Justin J. Swanson, 21, of Anaheim, Calif., died Nov. 10 while supporting combat operations in Helmand province, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 1st Battalion, 5th [...]

Carrie Brownstein runs a guest post from Tobi Vail, one of the most counterculturally significant figures of the 1990s. I just realized that by running this next to a video of “Aneurysm,” a song she inspired, I might be slighting her groundbreaking work with Bikini Kill, which isn’t my intention at all. I just really [...]

Danger Room, you warm my heart sometimes. Amid all the gloomy news from Afghanistan (and the fingers-on-chalkboard strategy debate), here’s a cheerful headline: An Australian Special Forces explosives-sniffing dog has been found alive in Afghanistan — more than a year after she went MIA in firefight. According to a news release from the Australian military, [...]

He’s going to Iraq to visit the troops. But he really ought to stop in at some of the Baghdad gyms that are actually named for him.

Griel Marcus’ lipstick traces has an Afghanistan-centric coda, as tales are told of markets arising across that benighted country to sell purloined American goods. Those of us who’ve been to Afghanistan can testify to the pervasive logistical reliance on so-called jingle trucks — the garish, flaired-up convoys that traverse Afghanistan’s barely-existent roads, fighting off Taliban [...]