historical visualization

http://www.mapsofwar.com/ind/imperial-history.html

Most of these I'd known about (although I was occasionally surprised by some of the details) but it's a nice visualization of the empires of (or at least impinging upon) the Middle East through history.

Keith Olbermann delivers a series of gut punches

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/05/olbermanns-special-comment-it-is-not-the-democrats-whose-inaction-in-the-face-of-the-enemy-you-fear/#more-10808

Wow.

...on the head of a pin

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