Oh, yeah, one final piece of advice. That “You’re treated well” framing, that’s something you want to stay away from if you can. It can distort your thinking vis-a-vis commenters – in this culture they aren’t an […]

Take a look at Hounsell’s [Praktike] twitter feed: https://twitter.com/blakehounshell

If you don’t like being associated with Jones’ people, then perhaps you should be a little bit more critical about the material you pick up and redistribute. The fact that you and them are saying similar things, […]

Take a look at the google results of who’s first mover on this story – near as I was able to tell it tracks back to infowars. Where you picked it up, I don’t know.

As to cheap shots, clearly what folks want is […]

Scary thing is those socks are likely to be worth more than all the clothes I have on.

(Before anyone rushes to judgement, no, that is not a sly way of saying I’m posting al fresco).

When did “the respect a post is due” demand silent acceptance around here? That guy with the poorly chosen cocktail up in the banner, I seem to recall that he advocated rigorous oppositional testing of ideas that […]

Short form: “I want to believe”.

An Alex Jones originated meme, sourced to Russian language media aligned with the Russian powers that be, targeting an obvious political thorn in their side? Grab your wallet.

One thing did belatedly occur to me timing-wise. It is potentially significant that we are currently having third reading on an anti-terrorism bill originating out of the Senate that seeks to reinstate some […]

Uh, I doubt it’s anyone giving anyone the finger. The nightmare scenario for anyone in the business is that you identify and infiltrate a plot but have it go ahead before you can wrap it up. Not, as they say, […]

I don’t know whether the instigator would make much of a difference. In any case, I don’t think we’re going to find out before mandatory declassification. Both sides have considerable motivation to assert that the […]

And miss the wagon circling around desired meta-narratives? Where would be the fun in that?

There doesn’t have to be a propaganda upside for them to publicly acknowledge this. Plausible secrecy was impossible as soon as SecDef declared the deployment to Armed Services, hence they publicly disclosed it. […]

I doubt that the propaganda concerns are enough to deter them from this deployment. The public credibility of AQI and related transnationals inside the Kingdom is quite low, though they do have their adherents. […]

This appears to be video of a guy that was detained at the time of the shootout that killed the older brother. Near as I can tell he was detained for “walking while swarthy”. Because of the IED threat, they had […]

Seth Mnookin was on the scene and says this is BS (in his Twitter feed): https://twitter.com/sethmnookin I’d post the New Yorker piece as well, but WordPress will throw my comment into adjudication hell. Given the […]

Syria opposition voices frustration with international backers

Mariam Karouny and Nick Tattersall | Istanbul | April 20

Reuters – Syrian opposition figures voiced frustration with their international backers […]

My motives, Mike are to increase understanding of the issues and help people be a little smarter. I’m not missing your point, I’m seeking to highlight the dangers of focussing too myopically on what has been […]

Yeah, I have an alternative idea. Reduce emissions via conservation measures. Having looked at the numbers, frankly I think we’re being sold one hell of a bill of goods. We’re told that tar sands oil emits 17% […]