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...dusty side street in Somalia's former capital, there's little that distinguishes Mohammed's stall from the others. A grenade rests against a box of ammunition next to a row of AK-47s, and still more rifles hang from nails beneath a patch of tin roofing. His booth occupies prime real estate in the center of Mogadishu's Bakaraaha Arms Market, and he obsessively polishes his guns with an oil-stained rag in a battle against sand and grit. But few passersby show interest. Once one of the most bustling, bristling arms bazaars in the world, the Mogadishu weapons...
PfoHo Bell Tower had a rave this weekend, and went through the trouble of coating their walls with tin foil. They also passed out lots of glowsticks, including little ones to light up one’s mouth or cup of beer. Sanitary? No. Fluorescent? Hell...
...Everyone from neocon hacks to flip-flopping Democrats, White House loyalists and "liberal hawk" media pundits have signed on to the notion that it was the right war, botched in the implementation by a tin-eared Defense Secretary promoting a bizarre managerial theory of capital-intensive warfare. Translation: If Rumsfeld had simply sent more troops, the outcome would have been different...
...Most everyone, Christian or not, acknowledged these traditions. Jewish merchants decked the stores with trees and Santas, while Hollywood and Tin Pan Alley helped define the Christmas feeling with movies and music. "White Christmas," "A Christmas Song," "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" - who wrote these songs? The same people responsible for most of the great pop music of the early and mid-20th century: Jews. In 1964, when Phil Spector produced a great album of seasonal tunes sung by his house performers (the Crystals, the Ronettes, etc.), he didn't call it the Holiday Album. It was A Christmas...
DIED. Herbert Leonard, 84, producer who created the seminal 1950s-'60s small-screen gems Naked City (New York crime tales); Route 66 (guys roam the U.S. in a Corvette convertible); and The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin (stories of an orphan and his dog in the Old West); in Los Angeles...