SMASH Bassim Daham / AP Photo NOTES TIKRIT TURNOVER Although 28 other coalition operating bases have already been turned over to Iraqi Security Forces control this year, the Tikrit Palace complex is the most significant transition of real estate thus…

Fox News refused to run an anti-Alito ad. Jerks.

OSM, PJM, PB&J whatever seeks to stifle us. Now TTLB follows up. Actual emails
Dear NZ Bear:
My understanding is your new spam filters mean linkfests no longer count as links. That is most unfortunate and discouraging to startup blogs
Thank you,
Do…

I went to this new Web site. Calls itself Awesome only it spells it O-S-M.
Heh.
Someone told me $3.5 million was sunk into it.
Wow. Wonder how many Boys And Girls Clubs they had to borrow from to get that kinda loot.
But I went over there and notic…

I haven’t featured a “snark for today” post in a while… James Lileks Screedblog post yesterday is just toooo inspiring to neglect, though… hop on over and spike his bandwidth usage. Here’s a sample

Don Surber has a round-up of reactions to the Open Source Media project. Included is the story of the co-founder left behind in the dust, a possibly-unintended snub to a major player, and more than one post about the general…

CAIRO, Egypt– Reaching out to the Sunni Arab community, Iraqi leaders called for a timetable for the withdrawal of U.S.-led forces and said Iraq’s opposition had a “legitimate right” of resistance

In Hollywood Florida some city firefighters applied for assistance. What irked many is that these men and women applied while on duty and jumped other people in line.(These lines often lasted for hours) If they qualify for the help, I see no problem …

Many know him as the Emperor Misha, or the Rottweiller. We usually address him as simply Misha, and we want to thank his royalness for allowing this humble blog to do his first time ever, exlusive interview. So, on with the show. Our interview wi…