Flares into Darkness

This article discusses the history and current status of the Pakistani-based terrorist group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT). Although formerly abolis...

Enjoy an African PSA by Habib Koité and Bamada as you get ready for a Nanny State approved weekend.  

Picture from Display Fake Food The following report out of Wisconsin is truly shocking. Not the part about a protestor confronting Rep. R...

The Taiwanese artist Chen Chun-hao wields a nail gun rather than a paint brush when he creates his works. He'll shoot hundreds of thous...

I'm going to wrap up my long, slow and rambling series on the music of Mali with this post featuring videos of the immensely talented ...

The Buran's painted side In an earlier post, Houston gets robbed , I mentioned the sorry state of disrepair the Russian shuttle fleet...

The latest Stratfor article reviews the European Union. Freidman discusses how the previous nationalism of the continent led to an ever shif...

Well, this is the guy that was stymied by an umbrella... Now that Obama has returned from vacation he's been ranting and raving for s...

Above is the World's smallest model train. It has a simple layout with the train passing through a tunnel as it runs on an oval track....

Monday morning, start of the work week blues by Junior Wells.

Below is the account of Denise M. of her experiences in Manhattan on the day of the 9/11 terror attacks. I broke it into paragraphs, but he...

The news clips are arranged on a matrix by channel and hour A Television News Archive of 911 has been created. Its has 3000 hours of arc...

No, I'm not turning this blog into the all Thalia all the time blog, although it would probably help with my traffic if I did. I found...

This Stratfor article concerns one piece of legal maneuvering by Jesus Vicente Zambada Niebla, aka "El Vicentillo", who is, as the...

Get ready for a cool, hepcat weekend with Bethany & Rufus.  

The post I had planned for tonight fell apart. I blame Bush. Since I intend on laying around and watching football I'm just tossing out ...

Click on any image to enlarge it  The site I got these images from, НОВОСТИ В ФОТОГРАФИЯХ , is in a language I can't even identify mu...

Ahh... the wonders of YouTube. Some guy rigged two pistols so he could fire them while they were submerged in an aquarium. He then filmed ...

Click to enlarge NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO)  has taken new photos of the Apollo 12, 14 and 17 landing sites. They are ...

In this Stratfor article George Friedman offers a retrospective of the War in Terror which was spawned by the 9/11 terror attacks. He discu...