terrorism
Boston, between Columbine and 9/11
President Obama declared that the “hateful agenda” of the Boston bombers will not succeed. But he also warns us not to jump to conclusions. Thus we may ask, what if…
NYC Event: The World 9/11 Created
Voice of Witness, the non-profit arm of McSweeney’s Books, has put together their latest collection of oral histories in time to be included in our reflections on 9/11 and the…
I Wanna Be Like Osama b.
A clever little artifact of our depressing times: It comes from Jihad! The Musical, written by Benjamin Scheuer, who introduced himself at the Tin Anniversary Spectacular the other night.
That’s Irish Evangelism
1972: Secret IRA priest is protected from prosecution in car bomb attack— Martin Scorsese! cue up “Gimme Shelter” http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE67N23820100824
Ground Zero for American Islam
A few weeks ago, we were all talking about race. An event—the accidental firing of Shirley Sherrod, a USDA employee—set off one of those “national conversations”: a spurious debate driven…
Independence Day, almost
This one day during basic training when we did a night live fire exercise crawling under exploding things made me kind of done with fireworks. I was low-crawling through the…
Explosions in Mumbai
A year ago today ten men in jeans and black t-shirts took ten minutes to hijack Mumbai, a cosmopolitan city that everyone here in India compares to New York. With…
30 Seconds of Book Criticism: Inside the Kingdom
Publishers send me books to consider for review, but I rarely end up writing about even those that interest me. So, after culling the trash and the irrelevant and the…
This Progamming Brought to You by the F.B.I.
There’s little question that the four men arrested for plotting a series of terror attacks north of New York City are creeps. One’s a purse snatcher who collects urine. Another…
Hermaphrodite Terrorist Angel
How many holy rollers does it take to pray the devil out of a hermaphrodite terrorist angel?
