Burma

From The Room: Myanmar, Formerly Known as Burma, Allows in One Flight from USA

May 12, 2008 - Myanmar, formerly known as Burma (sounded too Jewish?) has finally agreed to admit the first U.S. airlift today, which is bringing 28,000 pounds of supplies to the seriously ravaged country...

From The Room: The Hell with the Victims in Burma and Other Sentiments that Would Make Us Happier

May 8, 2008 - A new NYU study shows that conservatives are happier than liberals, the explanation being that conservatives rationalize social and economic inequalities. Irrespective of marita...

From The Room: Liveblogging the Movies: Step Up 2 John Rambo

February 20, 2008 - This was an experiment. We wanted to see if there were substantive similarities (both thematic and character-based) between Step Up 2 the Streets and Rambo. So we liveblogged them side by side, or sideblogged, if you will. We discovered that, yes, in fact, the movies do share theme...

News Odds for Friday, January 25, 2008

January 25, 2008 - Odds that... Hillary Clinton steps out of the shower on Saturday, South Carolina's Democratic primary and freaks out when she wipes the steam from the mirror and sees...

"Yoo-hoo, over here!": First Lady distracts attention from Iraq

October 10, 2007 - In a Wall Street Journal op-ed yesterday, First Lady Laura Bush took an exceptionally brave stand on the situation in Burma: Ruling junta in Burma, stop being jerks and leave the protesting Buddhist monks alone! The First Lady, always one to take controversial stands on global quagmires (re...