The Rectification of Names

Photo by Gregory Colbert . Did I tell you? Did I tell you? Not here, perhaps, but over at BooMan's place , where the elevated tone ...

The Egyptian army accuses the Muslim Brothers who were massacred yesterday morning outside the facility where Mohammad Morsi is being deta...

Image via Rocco Marc McDonald . Via Twitter account of the great Lyse Doucet : I think we should stop worrying about Egypt right n...

David Brooks writes : The debate on Egypt—I mean the debate in Washington, obviously, not anything they're talking about in  Egypt, w...

I swear that guy has a vuvuzela! Image by AP? via Channel 11 Atlanta . Somebody I follow sent a Tweet around asking if there's ever...

New York Times : Egypt entered a perilous 48 hours on Monday when the military delivered an ultimatum to the country’s first democratical...

Thomas P. Friedman, aka Thomas L. Friedman, the Erzschnurrbart of the Zeitgeist, has learned to his amazement and delight that India is a m...

Eggs Definitely Look Better with Mustaches. By Ben at LikeCool.com .   Friedman manages to admit his error , sort of: I was critical...

Let's say about halfway through the natural course of the revolution the military steps in—not, according to them, as counterrevolution...

Mélenchon remplit sa plage! Today's rally in Marseille for Jean-Luc Mélenchon, French presidential candidate of the Front de Gauche, ...

From Beyond Dots . Another elephant or two got off the ground in Egypt, where Juan Cole notes that an administrative court has struck...

Well, Egypt is a pretty big country, after all. And a lot of things happen there, especially just now. And today's Thomas Friedman surr...

Today's visitation from the things that go bump in Thomas P. Friedman's night is our old friend the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood, w...

And it's time for another of our irregularly scheduled discussions of things that are undreamt of in Thomas Friedman's philosophy ...

Alas, the Times and the BBC both headline their Egypt election stories with the announcement that "Islamists" have won.  Once a...

Among those unpanicked by the Friedman Fear of Egypt's being overrun by Islamic fanatics, count the Google person turned revolutionar...

Don't look now, but Thomas Friedman has locked on a new idiotic metaphor. None of us can predict the title of his next book, but I'...

Nicholas Kristof in today's Times, on the success of the Islamist parties in the Egyptian elections, brings up a supremely important po...