"I understand. I will transmit this information to Vladimir."

It reads like a B movie, or B- at best. But evidently this is the way they actually speak to one another.  

Is anyone paying attention?

If there was ever an occasion for "binding prayers," this would seem to be it. For the sake of our brothers and sisters in Christ living in the Middle East, let us pray ...

HEK 293: A license to kill?

I've always preferred Coke to Pepsi products, but now we have this: Soylent Pepsi. Plus this. 


UPDATE: Evidently I am a bit of a latecomer to this story. Joe Escalante posted on this last year and lists a contact at Pepsi to whom you can communicate your disgust, revulsion, and intent to boycott.

“He’s killing kids"

"What ... is the one thing that Americans need to know about Bashar al-Assad?"

Now THAT is a headline! THAT is NEWS!

OK, it's a press release for a book, but I'd say such a topic is worthy not only of a book, but far surpasses the dreck that passes for news these days, especially the dreck that is designed to distract from the real issues the world is facing.

I'm so glad I sold my Disney stock a couple of years ago

I bought it at 25-ish when I heard they had picked up the Narnia franchise — it seemed a hopeful sign and worth supporting — and sold it when I learned they had dropped the same. Obviously, Bob Iger and Co. had absolutely zero knowledge of the books themselves and how popular Dawn Treader is compared to Prince Caspian. Meanwhile, Disney's problem child, ABC, is now producing the offal described by Walter Russell Mead over at Via Meadia.


  

UPDATE: Good for Kraft.