Not doing anything Monday at 7:30? In D.C.? Come by the Historic Sixth & I Synagogue, where a bunch of writerly Jews will be telling tales of great jewwy Jewishness. I’ll be one of them. Self-indulgent? Certainly, but there’ll be true-life-tales of Jewishness and foreign travels. And what a cast! Emily Yoffe from Slate, NPR’s [...]

An anthem for the Obama administration over the last few weeks. As it turns out, I’m driving to watch a giant electromagnetic gun get fired off, so while I’ve barely posted at all this week, expect radio silence today. And in case you were wondering: no relation.

The legend of the Flophouse expands, thanks to Vanity Fair’s Juli Weiner. All five original residents have since vacated, moving on to more comfortably middle-class dwellings in our advanced age, though I heard yesterday that I left a box of  graphic novels in the basement. Speaking for myself, I appreciate the idea that our infamy [...]

BAGRAM AIR FIELD, Afghanistan — So it turned out that I couldn’t get to some of the places out east in Afghanistan that I wanted to see, through no fault of the efforts of very hardworking public-affairs officers who tried to facilitate it. As a result, I’ve had a limited ability to acquire ground truth [...]

…in my Wonkette-ish weekly link roundup, “This Week in National Insecurity,” now posted on MoJo. Can I get a Howard Dean “YEEEEAH”?

Josh Foust and I chat about WikiLeaks and Afghanistan. I tried to act as a facilitator for Josh to make his points rather than press any point particularly hard myself, as I was more interested in what Josh had to say than what I had to say. Enjoy.

Slow posting today, as I’ve got a couple Danger Room deadlines I need to hit. To everyone who gracefully offered on that earlier thread to guest post for me while I’m in Afghanistan: thanks, I’ll be sending you emails soon with specific information.

You know what? Instead of getting angry with myself about how I don’t have time to feed my personal blog and it’s 10:15 already and I’ve got nothing posted, I’m taking the day off. Sorry. It’s a big internet out there. May I recommend Danger Room? Home news: I’m going to need to call on [...]

Obviously, this is one of those problems that’s good to have. But I have two blogs, as I have for the last couple of years. One of them, Danger Room, is my day job, and this is my personal hangout. Balancing them is a bit of a challenge. I presume you don’t want to read [...]

I have officially entered the Danger Room. Noah Shachtman is Professor X. Katie Drummond is Jean Grey. For now, I suit up for Cannonball and Mirage’s New Mutant team. I aspire to be more Warlock than Cypher. So tomorrow expect some slow blogging as I’ll be at Wired’s NYC home offices, learning the how the [...]