I thank the thousands of women and men, including members of Congress, Georgetown University students and faculty, and total strangers of all political stripes across the country who have offered kind words and support following recent egregious personal attacks.
We are fortunate to live in a…
BREAKING: Senate rejects the Blunt bill — which would limit access to contraception and other preventive heath care to 20 million women.
Thousands of Egyptian women took to the streets today for a march protesting police abuse this weekend, when a hijab-clad woman was stripped and beaten.
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Kim Jong Il has an exceptionally discriminating palate. There is an episode I remember well that demonstrates this. I was preparing sushi in the Number 8 Banquet Hall. All of a sudden Kim Jong Il said, “Fujimoto, today’s sushi tastes a little different.”
He had had a lot to drink that evening before the meal, and I suggested that maybe that was the reason.
He replied, “Maybe…” He seemed doubtful, but didn’t pursue it any further.
However, when I returned to the kitchen, I checked the seasoning used that day and found that the sugar was ten grams less than usual! Kim Jong Il was the only one who had noticed. Even I was astonished at this.
With respect to rice, before cooking it a waiter and a kitchen staff member would inspect it grain by grain. Chipped and defective grains were extracted; only those with perfect form were presented.
True stories from the Dear Leader’s onetime chef
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Um, yeah, back to that report on record starvation levels in the DPRK this winter.
There’s a discriminating palate, and there’s a tyrant with too many toys.
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Over the years, MoJo shed light on Bush’s lie factory, the real WMD, shady contractors, war resisters, KBR fraudsters, wounded heroes, and much more. Here’s a look back through nearly a decade of incredible stories.
(Source: Mother Jones)
Our DC bureau chief, David Corn, recalls the years he spent in close quarters with Hitch at The Nation:
In later years, Hitchens and I had our differences. I was not heartened when he provided left-of-center and intellectual cover to the impeachment crusade waged by extremist radicals of the right in the 1990s. And we had words over his support for the Iraq War… I wish I could forget the time, a few months into the war, when he assured me, “Wolfowitz has the rats on the run and this will all be over soon.”
Yet policy and political debates, as important as they are, come and go. Examples remain. Hitchens set one for me. And I know there is no reason to ask him to rest in peace.
Our DC bureau chief, David Corn, recalls the years he spent in close quarters with Hitch at The Nation:
In later years, Hitchens and I had our differences. I was not heartened when he provided left-of-center and intellectual cover to the impeachment crusade waged by extremist radicals of the right in the 1990s. And we had words over his support for the Iraq War… I wish I could forget the time, a few months into the war, when he assured me, “Wolfowitz has the rats on the run and this will all be over soon.”
Yet policy and political debates, as important as they are, come and go. Examples remain. Hitchens set one for me. And I know there is no reason to ask him to rest in peace.
Behold a map of all the US refineries currently processing oil from the tar sands.
Conclusion: it ain’t easy to avoid.
(Source: thinkprogress.org, via think-progress)