The Courtyard of a Great Sheikh:

I am almost certain that this is Swiftian satire, but hey, discuss anyway. NEWTON'S OPTIC: THE ANSWER to all our problems is staring us ...

Feasting in Arafiyah:

It's a million dollars off! Such a bargain! Now, this is California after all, the land of excess, but who needs 4300 sq feet? And, tho...

Suicide Bomber Motivation - Not Exactly Rocket Science (I'll have to update my favorites list soon, and this site's going on) repor...

Stuff. I believe this is some sort of joke. The Attorney General thinks you all are cowards . The Russians sent the money . But Gates may up...

One Night in Bangkok -- And the world's your oyster. This is about the best cultural experience I've had here so far - traditional ...

Sheep in Sadr-al-Yusifiyah:

Why Buddhism Never Caught On in Greece - All right, you've read the Phaedo - Socrates was halfway to Buddhism on his deathbed (philosop...

Single Combat Between Kings - Alexander very much saw himself as a Homeric leader, and a front-line fighter, but the Oriental despots he fou...

"We have decided to wait until the Russians send the money." BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan (AP) — Kyrgyzstan's parliament will delay a v...

"Not quite Jörmungandr" -- Reading a line like that, I couldn't resist linking to this.

Fringes: Cassandra has a post on the Superbowl commercials -- which I will not see until starting 1800 tomorrow, which is 1000 your time, so...

Congratulations to the People of Iraq: Today's elections will, I expect, go largely unnoticed back home. In a way that is a mark of the...

I'll bet this is a lot funnier to me than to others around here. WASHINGTON—President Barack Obama expressed frustration Wednesday after...

An Article to Discuss: I wish I had time to engage this article as fully as I would like. Hutchins’s models of a collegiate education were ...

Across the Euphrates: Some of you may recognize the bridge. If you don't recognize the bridge, it has an interesting backstory . The ele...

The guy over at the Volokh conspiracy is right; this is just creepy. (catch it at 3:54) I could make all sorts of rude jokes on this, but I ...

Fort Apache: I was out at what used to be PB Inchon the other day -- not too long ago a real "Fort Apache." It's been turned ...

Sheep by the Water, Qarghuli Tribal Region: